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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create documents and how this feature enables us to create and manage very simple websites. The first thing we discovered, with respect to other CMS solutions, is that we don't have anything that's ready to use. Just to create the first web page, we needed to define some templates. This may seem like a waste of time, but it is in fact the opposite. Templates force you to work in a structured way from the beginning of the process. They force you to create editable web pages where the final user will be able to edit data without breaking the layout. This allows non-developers to master their content. It is what we called a detached approach in the first chapter.

If you have some experience in web development, you are probably wondering how far you can go with editables. Their flexibility can help you implement a huge amount of web pages, and you could theoretically go on and manage complex websites with them. The only limitation...