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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 theme


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Type Themes into the intelligent search box and select the first entry in the search result.

  2. Your new theme should appear at the end of the installed themes in the section Themes Available to Install. Click on Install, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. After you've installed the theme, you'll see a screen with all page types available in your theme. Click on Return to Themes to get back to the previous screen.

  4. Your new theme is installed now, but it's not activated yet. Click on Preview if you want to look at it before activating it or just click on Activate to use it right away. You'll have to confirm this action.

What just happened?

We've installed our new theme which has been converted from a static HTML page. A theme is nothing but a bunch of files in a single directory, but it won't be available in concrete5 unless you follow the preceding steps.