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I've seen a few issues with our particular use of the software on our corporate sitehttp://www.drsandassociates.com...
I have no doubt that many if not all of these things are fixable, but as a C5 newb who didn't actually develop the site, I thought this would be the best place to find out where I should go from here:
1. When editing/creating a new page (when I'm logged in of course) I get a "index.php?cID=XXX" url instead of the real display url. This makes it harder than it should be for me from a SEO perspective because every time I'm working on a page that I need to use for internal linking, I have to go into the properties -> page paths and locations tab to find out what the URL is that you should be linking to. Is there a way to have the software show the display url at all times? Not sure why you'd have a dev url as well as a display url anyway, but as a newb I'm assuming there's a reasonable explanation?
2. No easy way to edit a list/document across multiple pages? This has been killing me. We've got a bunch of press releases on the site which are arranged in lists eg. one page with all the releases, one page with the 2009 releases, and a page for each client's releases. This means that each time I edit a press release I need to re-edit each list which contains a simple title and description. I do not believe the RSS feed is the answer, and I have got to believe that there's a better way to be doing this. With every other CMS I've ever used (wordpress, drupal etc) once you create a page, the titles and descriptions are all dynamic to the blog, forum, list etc, hence the name CMS. How should this be set up differently?
3. Aliasing a secure page doesn't work - I have a feeling this was included in the most recent update of C5, but don't have confirmation of this?
4. RSS Feed - the way we're using the RSS it doesn't pull in the description:http://www.drsandassociates.com/index.php?cID=327... Is this something that needs to be custom coded?
5. My File Manager has no folder structure - Normally I'd have every picture that resides in a specific category in that category's folder. This obviously makes it easier to find what you're looking for when you're only working with the files in a specific category.
6. Pages and Themes-> Page Types- I've got like 5 Page Types, and yet all five share some of the same attributes (the footer for example). Is there a way to mass edit something like a footer across all the different page types? I understand the need to have different page types, but not sure I understand why everything is editable on each instead of having a master template that has editable regions across all page types, and the different page types have their own editable/different sections as well.
Just a few things I've seen thus far, any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!
I have no doubt that many if not all of these things are fixable, but as a C5 newb who didn't actually develop the site, I thought this would be the best place to find out where I should go from here:
1. When editing/creating a new page (when I'm logged in of course) I get a "index.php?cID=XXX" url instead of the real display url. This makes it harder than it should be for me from a SEO perspective because every time I'm working on a page that I need to use for internal linking, I have to go into the properties -> page paths and locations tab to find out what the URL is that you should be linking to. Is there a way to have the software show the display url at all times? Not sure why you'd have a dev url as well as a display url anyway, but as a newb I'm assuming there's a reasonable explanation?
2. No easy way to edit a list/document across multiple pages? This has been killing me. We've got a bunch of press releases on the site which are arranged in lists eg. one page with all the releases, one page with the 2009 releases, and a page for each client's releases. This means that each time I edit a press release I need to re-edit each list which contains a simple title and description. I do not believe the RSS feed is the answer, and I have got to believe that there's a better way to be doing this. With every other CMS I've ever used (wordpress, drupal etc) once you create a page, the titles and descriptions are all dynamic to the blog, forum, list etc, hence the name CMS. How should this be set up differently?
3. Aliasing a secure page doesn't work - I have a feeling this was included in the most recent update of C5, but don't have confirmation of this?
4. RSS Feed - the way we're using the RSS it doesn't pull in the description:http://www.drsandassociates.com/index.php?cID=327... Is this something that needs to be custom coded?
5. My File Manager has no folder structure - Normally I'd have every picture that resides in a specific category in that category's folder. This obviously makes it easier to find what you're looking for when you're only working with the files in a specific category.
6. Pages and Themes-> Page Types- I've got like 5 Page Types, and yet all five share some of the same attributes (the footer for example). Is there a way to mass edit something like a footer across all the different page types? I understand the need to have different page types, but not sure I understand why everything is editable on each instead of having a master template that has editable regions across all page types, and the different page types have their own editable/different sections as well.
Just a few things I've seen thus far, any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!
#2: Why dont you use the Page List block. This will automatically displays the page Title & Description of each page under a certain page and each time a new page is created, the page list automatically updates. So in your case just add the Page List block to your main Press Release page and set it show all pages under that page. Then, on your 2009 Press Release Page add the Page List block to show all pages under that page. Very simple. Then, whenever you ad another press release it will automatically show up on the main page.
#6: Your header and footer code should be in seperate files named header.php and footer.php in an 'elements' folder within your theme folder. (take a look at the default Plain Yogurt theme). This way if you need to edit something in the footer or header, you only need to edit it in one file.
#6: Your header and footer code should be in seperate files named header.php and footer.php in an 'elements' folder within your theme folder. (take a look at the default Plain Yogurt theme). This way if you need to edit something in the footer or header, you only need to edit it in one file.
I think the reason we couldn't use the page list is because we needed it to be sortable by date and by tag (eg, client in this case)?
That's perfect about the footer.php file, that's what I was hoping for.
Thanks!
That's perfect about the footer.php file, that's what I was hoping for.
Thanks!
This is actually what the Page list looks like:http://www.drsandassociates.com/index.php?cID=327...
Not sure why the descriptions don't show up, or why it's themed like that but it seems like it shouldn't be that hard to tweak that if we don't end up going the blog route for that?
Thanks,
David
Not sure why the descriptions don't show up, or why it's themed like that but it seems like it shouldn't be that hard to tweak that if we don't end up going the blog route for that?
Thanks,
David
The page list pulls the Page Title and Page Description. Do you have a description filled in the page description (located under Page Properties) for each of those pages?
As far as theming, you can just make a custom template for the page list block - you can make it look just like your list that you have now. it's pretty simple. You can even pull in other attributes like the date the page was created and display them. Take a look at a custom page list template I created for my new OfficeSpace theme I just released:
http://c5.sineceramedia.com/news/...
As far as theming, you can just make a custom template for the page list block - you can make it look just like your list that you have now. it's pretty simple. You can even pull in other attributes like the date the page was created and display them. Take a look at a custom page list template I created for my new OfficeSpace theme I just released:
http://c5.sineceramedia.com/news/...
Ahh, I see what that description is for now. I'm pretty sure I was told that it was for keeping notes of the page, like an internal description.
Your office space news is exactly what we need. Looks much better than ours too. The sort thing on our site is just a sortable class.
Thanks, this is really helping a lot for the future direction of this site. :-)
Your office space news is exactly what we need. Looks much better than ours too. The sort thing on our site is just a sortable class.
Thanks, this is really helping a lot for the future direction of this site. :-)
You can make Tabs using pagelist custom template .
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-2/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-1/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-2/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-3/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-2/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-1/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-2/...
http://c5.tktools.jp/index.php/concrete5/tabs/tab-3/...
Hi Did you get on with your page with a sortable list on it?..
I am trying to achieve similar only have the page list display a list of people that needs to be sortable in the page by alphabetical or by the date they where enrolled (not the date the page was created).
Let me know if you found a workable solution as I think your challenge is/was similar to mine?
Thanks in advance
Paul
I am trying to achieve similar only have the page list display a list of people that needs to be sortable in the page by alphabetical or by the date they where enrolled (not the date the page was created).
Let me know if you found a workable solution as I think your challenge is/was similar to mine?
Thanks in advance
Paul
Hi Did you get on with your page with a sortable list on it?..
I am trying to achieve similar only have the page list display a list of people that needs to be sortable in the page by alphabetical or by the date they where enrolled (not the date the page was created).
Let me know if you found a workable solution as I think your challenge is/was similar to mine?
Thanks in advance
Paul
I am trying to achieve similar only have the page list display a list of people that needs to be sortable in the page by alphabetical or by the date they where enrolled (not the date the page was created).
Let me know if you found a workable solution as I think your challenge is/was similar to mine?
Thanks in advance
Paul
I haven't tackled this yet. What we have works well, it's just not the ideal solution because every time we do a new Press Release I have to put links to it in 3 different places, which I don't even think this solution would necessarily work for anyway. It's not like I can categorize the PR's when I post them by client, which was why we were originally going to feed them in using wordpress.
I think the real solution for this would be to use the new blog block.
I think the real solution for this would be to use the new blog block.
Also, is there a way to easily have a ping built into C5 so that every time something is changed a ping goes out? This is one of the secrets of success in the search engines for software like Wordpress and Drupal.