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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

Viewing the admin log


The admin log records the details of the changes made to the site by all users. This log can be found in the admin console (Site Admin | Admin Log) and includes records about the creating, deleting, and changing of:

  • Pages and global content blocks

  • Templates and stylesheets

  • Users, groups, and permissions

  • Site preferences

  • Modules

At the top of the log, you will find a navigation section providing links to the first, next, previous, and last pages of the log. There is also a link to download the complete log as a tab separated text file. At the bottom is the Clear Admin Log link. This will clear the entire log.

Note

Important! You won't be asked to confirm the Clear Admin Log, and this action cannot be undone once completed.

Once the admin log is cleared, there is no evidence of who has changed anything on the website and what the changes were. Therefore, there is even a separate permission called Clear Admin Log that is granted separately from the permission Modify Site Preferences...