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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page. concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5. concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin. concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – installing an add-on manually


Carry out the following steps to install an add-on manually:

  1. Go to http://www.concrete5.org and click on Marketplace at the top.

  2. Find the add-on that you want to install. You can search for AddThis for example, and click on the Details button.

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the details page for the selected add-on and click on the Download Archive link. Pay attention to the Work With reference as not every add-on works with every version.

  4. On the next screen, click on Download Now. If there are multiple versions available, you'll see a list where you can pick them right now. If you work with an up-to-date version of concrete5, you can usually go with the latest version.

  5. Extract the downloaded ZIP file into the packages folder of your concrete5 site. If you're working with a default Bitnami setup, the folder is C:\BitNami\wampstack-5.4.10-0\apache2\htdocs\packages.

  6. Go back to your site's dashboard.

  7. Click on Extend concrete5.

  8. At the bottom, there's a list named...