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Custom Attribute Types

A quick tutorial on setting up your own attribute types.

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How to translate a Concrete5's package in your language

We'll see here how to create, use, and keep up to date the translation's file to have your packages GUI in your language. Usable from C5.4.1 only. Two methods are proposed, one by terminal, and another graphically.

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Using Google Apps for Your Outgoing Mail

Walking through setting up Concrete5 to use Google Apps for sending e-mails.

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Backup and Restore File Permissions In Linux

It is important to take a backup of your file permissions prior to changing them. We show you exactly how to do this.

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How to round corners on user's avatars

How to put rounded corners on your user's avatars

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Using Advanced Permissions

Check out the powerful capabilities offered by concrete5's Advanced Permissions model.

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Set Permissions of Specific Areas and Blocks

Learn how to specifically control what page areas users can view and edit using Advanced Permissions and area blocks.

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Use Special eCommerce User Attributes

Learn how to set up the eCommerce add-on to sell access to certain content or areas of your concrete5 website.

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Strategies for Creating Custom Site Themes from an Existing Design

What's the best way to approach adapting a site design for use in concrete5? Franz demonstrates the design flexibility offered by concrete5, then explains recommended strategies for chopping a page design.

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Use Layouts to Position and Align Content

Layouts provide powerful, flexible features for precisely placing content on a concrete5 page. This screencast will show you some of the basic tips and techniques for using them.

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Packaging up a Theme

Learn how to package up a theme for the concrete5 marketplace with the controller.php file.

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Adding a Jquery Accordion Menu

Adding a JQuery Accordion menu to the auto-nav block

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Adding the noindex meta tag

This shows how to add the meta robots noindex tag to pages that have the Exclude From Search Index attribute checked.

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Create menu-placeholders in the auto-nav

Sometimes you just want to create a category heading in the main menu for your website and allow users to click on an item to open the menu without loading a page. We can achieve this by adding a single page attribute and just adding a line of code.

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A Multi-Site Approach in Concrete5

An overview of an approach as to how you can re-use the Concrete5 core for multiple domains.

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Disable the Dashboard Statistics graph (and stats collection)

If your concrete5 Dashboard is loading in a sluggish fashion, disabling the Flash-based Statistics graph can speed up the process.

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In-context Editing

How to put a page in edit mode and change your site

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Arranging Content

A basic tutorial video about shifting content around on your pages and changing the way users navigate your site.

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Explain all these different logins I have!?!

Things can get confusing with all the logins you need to run a website. This explains what each account is for.

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How to run certain Jobs via cron

This How-To shows how you can run only specific jobs instead of all of them.

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Monitor Your Site's Traffic

A video introducing the ways concrete5 can monitor web traffic.

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Build Out a Site From a Comp

Learn how to think about taking a site from a mock-up to concrete5. In this example, a flash games website is analyzed. This how-to assumes familiarity with the CMS.

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Set Up eCommerce and Digital Downloads

Start selling downloadable assets in just ten minutes with eCommerce and the Digital Downloads add-on.

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Add (or change) your site's Favicon

Need to add (or change) the little icon that shows up in the title bar when someone visits or bookmarks your site? Here's how!

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File Manager: Tools and Features

Learn how to use the concrete5 File Manager to upload and manage assets. Edit file permissions and attributes, track versions, statistics and more.

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Using File Manager Sets

Harness the power of concrete5's File Sets to organize, select and search for files.

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Restore a deleted system page (like Login, Members, etc)

Did you accidentally delete a system page from the Dashboard? Can't figure out how to get it back? This How-To will describe how you can easily re-create it.

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concrete5 and GoDaddy Shared Hosting

Here's a few tips to get your concrete5 website up and running on a GoDaddy Shared Hosting Account.

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How to Make an Easy Dropdown Menu

How to easily create a dropdown menu by adding a few lines of code to your css.

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Create a Citation Block For Your Site

Learn how to create an automatic updating Citation Block for your site with MLA 7.

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Customizing Superfish

A few simple modifications to disable arrows, drop shadows or adjust borders and opacity in the Superfish drop-down menu add-on

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How do I remove the "Powered by concrete5" in my theme's footer?

Hide the c5 callout at the bottom of your pages.

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Change Block View Behavior With Templates AKA: Make Anything Fancy

This how-to shows you how to modify the behavior of a block. As an example, the form block is extended to go inside a fancybox lightbox. The idea could be extrapolated to work with any block.

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How Can I Edit Page Defaults?

To edit the default elements for a page type, you must log in as admin.

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Mail on Yahoo Hosting

How to set up form emails and password forgotten emails on Yahoo hosting.

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Stop Themes From Interfering with The edit bar

Sometimes when you are making a concrete5 theme the edit bar will become all messed up. Ill try to show you how you can fix several issues with the theme to make it work. This happens most often with converted themes.

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Centralizing Templates/Blocks & Language files

Basic on how to centralize your blocks, language files, etc.

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Running Multiple concrete5 Instances Using a Single Core on a Redhat enviroment

Instructions on setting up a single core instance on a RHEL enviroment

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Hardcode a Block into a Page Type

Concrete5 user jgarcia shows how to hardcode a block into a theme.

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Increase Upload Size

Are you getting errors trying to upload a large file? Find out how to get around this annoyance.

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Setting Up and Maintaining a Centralized concrete5 Installation

Configure your server to host multiple concrete5 sites off of one shared concrete5 codebase.

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Setup a subdomain based demo server

Setup a concrete5 demo server that creates concrete5 sites on the same server accessible by a subdomain

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Reconnect To The Community

Get your site connected to the Marketplace again after changing your username.

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Your site's URL

Redirect your visitors to always see the same URL using BASE_URL.

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Developers Introduction with Derek Allard

Andrew Embler (CTO of concrete5) takes Derek Allard (ExpressionEngine, CodeIgniter, MojoMotor) through the basics of what concrete5 can do and how it's put together.

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Adding F4V Support to the Basic Video Player Block 2

 

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Five easy ways to speed a concrete5 Site

From my personal blog on concrete5, some simple tips to speed up a concrete5 site.

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Adding a Facebook Like Box to your concrete5 Website

From Jeremy Werst: I tried just using the "Like" button from the concrete5 marketplace, but I didn't like the way it looked, and it also didn't seem to function properly. It didn't track likes properly, and there was no way for someone to like the page from facebook without visiting your site.

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Migrating from Development to Live Server on Fedora: Step by Step

Originally posted by user witwag in our forums, this is a step-by-step guide detailing how to migrate a concrete5 site from dev to a new Fedora box. Includes installation of apache, Mysql and some basic security hardening.

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Make Your Site Accessible to Administrators While in Maintenance Mode

Mnkras offers up some helpful startup code to allow Administrators to edit their site while its in maintenance mode.

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Running Multiple concrete5 Instances Using a Single Core on a Plesk-Managed Web Host

corretje offers up detailed instructions on sharing a single concrete5 core code base with multiple concrete5 installations on a web server running the Plesk control panel.

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Styling the Page List Block

User pvernaglia shows us how to style the built-in Page List block.

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Custom Block Templates/Views

User ChadStrat shows how you can use concrete5's custom views to add interesting user information to the content block, all without forking the core concrete5 code.

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Basic MVC in concrete5

concrete5's friendliness toward developers extends beyond blocks and add-ons. An easy-to-understand but very useful MVC syntax powers concrete5's single pages and page types, allowing for helpful separation between code and content.

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Creating and Working with db.xml Files

Developer Lucas Anderson shows us how to work with concrete5's db.xml format, which are used in block and package database table creation.

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Automatically Expire Pages from a Page List at a Certain Time

User pvernaglia shows us how to make articles in a page list disappear after a certain custom date. This date can differ from article to article.

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New Cheat Sheet Documentation Launched

User pvernaglia gives us some useful snippets of concrete5 code, and we decided to include them on a new page in the site.

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Custom Footer Menus using Auto-Nav

User pvernaglia offers up a tutorial on how to build a custom, automatically reused footer menu using the Auto-Nav and some custom coding.

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Building Sites in Multiple Languages

User pvernaglia offers up a tutorial on how to build a site in multiple languages, and offer a language switcher widget.

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Built-In Attribute Reference/Cheat Sheet

concrete5 uses a number of built-in page and file attributes for difference items. This is the full list, as of 5.4.1.

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Another Primer on Areas and Page Types

dowdrake.com offers up an easy to understand tutorial on page types and areas.

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Adding Sitemap and File Manager Quick Links to Edit Bar

Member jedspurg shows us how how to add two quick shortcuts to important areas of the dashboard to the concrete5 edit bar.

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Integrate Google site search into concrete5

User melat0nin gives us the low-down on how to integrate Google Site Search into concrete5.

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File Block: Display File Type Icon next to the Download Link

User marcandre shows how to modify the built-in file block to display the icon of the type of file, as well as a link to download the file.

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Screencast: How to Create a Client Area

10 minute screencast by dojodesign showing how to offer different content to different clients using concrete5's user profiles, advanced permissions and user groups.

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concrete5 Add-On Developers: Create Your Own concrete5 Demo (5.4.2.2 and earlier)

This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time.

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JavaScript, jQuery and concrete5

An introduction to integrating a wide variety of rich JavaScript functionality into the front-end of your concrete5 applications and blocks.

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Primer: Auto-Nav Block

Learn how to build navigations in concrete5, including what the Auto-Nav does and what its options mean. Then explore some practical examples, how you can control the way it displays and links pages, and how to theme and extend it.

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How-To: Build a Single-Page Powered Editing Interface for concrete5 Pages

Learn how to build a simple FAQ system from scratch, including a single page interface for listing and sorting entries, a single page interface for editing entries, a page list template for displaying them.

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Customize a Block's Appearance

You can use custom templates as multiple view layers for any block type, creating vastly different feels and behavior for the end site visitor.

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Create an RSS feed from your site

I want people to be able to subscribe to a feed of my site, how?

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Building an iPhone-Optimized Version of a concrete5 Theme

Download an iPhone-optimized concrete5 theme, and learn how to automatically display it to mobile Safari on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

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I can't login!

Have you forgotten your password, or changed something, and now can't login? Here's how to fix it.

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Get the Content Editor's Text and Background Colors to Match Your Theme

To get the content editor to show your theme's background and text images when you edit the block, make sure these styles are defined in typography.css.

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Extend the Rich-Text Editor

Add to the list of tags allowed by the TinyMCE content block editor

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Make a new Custom Attribute Type

Do you want to attach an attribute to a user, page, file or something else, but our attribute types won't quite cut it? In this how-to you will learn to create your own custom attribute type.

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Share Content Across Multiple Pages

Place the same content block on multiple pages by learning how to edit Default page types.

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How do I add Google Analytics tracking code to my site?

Easily add code to your site to enable Google Analytics tracking.

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Why do I need view.php in my theme?

Helps explain the importance of view.php.

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How do I add a bookmark icon (aka favicon) to my site?

Set your site to display a unique icon when users bookmark your site.

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Edit or remove your site name

Where can I change the default name for my site?

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Troubleshoot Mail Problems

Not receiving mail from your site? Here are a few things you should look into.

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Clean up copy pasted from MS Word

Having trouble pasting stuff you've copied from Word? Check out these tips.

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Disable the Dashboard Statistics Graph

Is the Statistics graph bogging down your dashboard? Find out how to disable it.

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How do I exclude a specific page from sitemap.xml? How do I set priority?

sitemap.xml is used by search engines to find content on your site, here's how to manage what's in it.

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Restore the "Generate Sitemap" Job

If you've accidentally removed your "generate sitemap" job, restore it by running a MySQL query.

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Converting a site into a theme

A brief how-to on turning an existing site design into a Theme in concrete5.

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Combining Views, Controllers, Events and Models to Create a Example Shopping Cart

A shopping cart example combining a model, a view and a controller.

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Get Pretty URLs working on Dreamhost

Make your URLs friendlier on a Dreamhost-hosted site

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Change Allowed File Upload Types

Got your own weird extensions you need to let people upload? We're limiting that for security reasons, but here's where you can change it.

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"concrete-ize" a basic HTML theme in 8 minutes

Learn how to translate a simple HTML theme found on the web into a C5 theme, in under 8 minutes.

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Creating a New Block Type

Download a tutorial block type and customize it as a starting point toward building your own blocks.

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