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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - preventing pages from displaying in the navigation


In our company website, we would like to hide the pages Privacy Policy and Sitemap from the main navigation providing special links to these pages only in the footer navigation later on.

  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Content | Pages.

  2. 2. In the list of pages, click on the page Privacy Policy to open it for editing.

  3. 3. Switch to the Options tab on the top of the editing window and deselect Show in Menu, as shown in the following screenshot.

  1. 4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on the Submit button.

  2. 5. View your website with the magnifier icon on the top right of the admin console.

Do the same for the Sitemap page.

What just happened?

You have deselected Show in Menu to hide the page from the main navigation of your website. The link to the page disappears from the top menu.

However, the page is not deactivated. You can still view it if you enter the full address of the page in the address bar of your browser...