Developing (v7+)

Disabling maintenance mode

Hi all. Can someone give me a SUPER SUPER detailed and basic description of how to manually disable maintenance mode, now that it's on? I tried to upgrade but was unsuccessful, so I rolled back everything and now all I need to do to re-access my old s…

Pretty URLs on a Subdomain

I have tried and tried but pretty urls will not work for me. Concrete5 is installed on a subdomain (sub.mysite.ca) and located in a subfolder of the main web directory (public_html/sub). I put the recommended code into the .htaccess file and it keeps g…

how to bulk edit pages based on a page type

Hi, I feel quite stupid now, because I think I'm doing a simple thing wrong. What I want is to edit a page type named customerpage. I have a few pages based on that page type. But, if I go to dashboard>pages and themes>pages types> and then I click …

Way to present date in different format

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to take the standard date and time output by a custom Page Attribute I've added to one of my page types (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:ss) and change it to display something like DD June YYYY at HH:MM:SS, basically rearrangin…

Block Tags (similar to Smarty)

Tags to allow coding in Blocks such as Smarty templates would be advantageous. Developers and editors would have more control over conditional data displayed and in the process alleviate the need for duplication of content in separate pages. Hope that m…

New Block for News Page?

Hi, I'm building a site for a client and he wants a news page on the site - title, date, article content. I know he could do all those things with the existing content block, but I want to make things as foolproof as possible, so I'm wondering if cr…

Drop down menu hidden by slideshow

Hi I have got a CSS drop down menu in the header part of my site. Directly underneath the menu i have added the built in slideshow from Concrete5's core blocks. The problem i am having now is that when i hover my mouse over the drop down menu it drops…

File Manager - Invalid File error message

Hi I'm setting up my first Concrete5 website as an intranet for the company i work for. I'm having an issue when trying to upload images from the front end and the back end. When i select the image (only using jpg at the moment) and try to upload it…

Putting external scripts on pages

How should I put a script on each page,and/or just on a single page? Something recurring I presume should be done on the THEME html itself....or page type? Please help. Thank you!

Installation problem

I’m trying to install C5 and I keep getting the message “Unable to connect to database.” I have contacted the host for help but after a few offers of advice they said that they are unable to help me and to contact C5 and ask them if they can produce a wor…

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