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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
Book Image

Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By: Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà

Overview of this book

Used by over eighty thousand companies worldwide, Pimcore is the leading open source enterprise-level content management system (CMS) solution. It is an impressive alternative to conventional CMSes and is ideal for creating e-commerce and complex enterprise websites. This book helps developers working with standard CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal to use their knowledge of CMSes to learn Pimcore CMS in a practical way. You'll start by learning what Pimcore is and explore its various services such as PIM, MDM, and DAM. The book then shows you various techniques for developing custom websites in Pimcore based on the scale of your organization. You'll learn how to use Pimcore to improve the digital transformation of a company by implementing enterprise Pimcore features. As you advance, you'll discover Pimcore's capabilities and features that make it a faster and more secure alternative to traditional CMSes. As well as demonstrating practical use cases, Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore can help you understand the benefits of using Pimcore as a CMS solution, sharing best practices and proven techniques for designing professional Pimcore sites. By the end of this book, you'll be a trained Pimcore developer, able to create complex websites, and be well-versed in Pimcore's enterprise features such as MDM, PIM, and DAM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Editing a document

In this section, we will learn how to create and edit a document. As we told you, a document can be any of your CMS web pages, so just from this simple lesson, you will be able to create any kind of website. The process of editing a document is very easy, and we will explore it by completing some simple steps:

  1. Open the admin panel and find Home, the page we created in the What is a document? section. By selecting it, you will open the web page in the main frame of the admin. As you can see in the next figure, we are going to edit the web page directly, and we will be using a mode called WYSIWYG, which is very useful because it makes the editor aware of what they are doing during the editing:

    Figure 4.7: The web page editor

    As you can see in the previous figure, we have some dotted areas, which are the placeholders that we added to the Twig template. These placeholders work like regular input boxes, so all you need to do is click on them and start entering text...