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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)

Chapter 7: Administrating Pimcore Sites

In the previous chapter, we learned how to manage images, thumbnails, and assets in Pimcore, using the DAM feature. In this chapter, we will start by seeing how it is possible to enhance Pimcore features through the use of bundles, which are packages created by the Pimcore team or by third-party developers and can be easily installed.

Another fundamental feature that cannot be missed is the organization of users and their permissions. To limit the functionality of the site in the administration and content management sections, we will learn how roles are created, how permissions are created for roles, and how they are assigned to users.

We will also see how it is possible to import and export the settings of our Pimcore installation to other environments. Finally, we will get a little familiar with the Pimcore console, a powerful and useful tool to be able to execute commands, without having to access the web administration panel.

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