concrete5

About

concrete5 is free/open source software for managing content on a web site. It can be compared to Weebly, although pages are generated dynamically rather than statically. {[seed}}

Notes

How to:

• center an image: two methods
• publish latest changes:
  • click on pencil (top left)
  • click on "Publish Page" button
• make a horizontal navigation (menu) bar:
  • hover over the sitewide navigation area
  • click on the drop-down description
  • select "add block"
  • in the palette that appears on the left, look under "navigation" and drag an "auto-nav" tool over to where you want it (I think... something like that)
  • ...and then there was a semi-obvious tweak to get it to be horizontal rather than vertical, but I found it by poking around in the tool's settings
• add a blog to a site: this explains how, with some caveats:
  • I had to create a sidebar-right template (I used the template icon which looks like it could have content on the left and a sidebar on the right)
    • post-facto update: I looked at the "Elemental" theme, clicked the "Templates" button on the same row, and got to a page which listed some stuff the theme needed to do, with a button at the bottom right which would do it. After clicking that button, new templates appeared including "Left Sidebar" and "Right Sidebar".
  • Under "Sets", there are now four types of Sets to which you can add; I chose "Collection" because that seemed closest to "Category".
  • When adding the Topic, I checked off only "Field available in advanced search." because that seemed closest to "Field available in Dashboard Page Search".
    • I also checked "[ ] Categories" because it wouldn't let me save without selecting a "Topic Default Parent Node", and that was the only one listed.
  • Modifying the default output settings didn't go as advertised. I had to create a new page to get the block palette to appear... but that doesn't seem to feed back into the output settings. Stuck here for now; further research needed.

Links

• official
• Wikipedia