Developing (v7+)

Some (lengthy) thoughts on Express

I have now used Express in a few places and I have some thoughts I wanted to share with the core team and also everyone. Full disclosure, I am NOT a software developer, I can get myself around PHP but really my focus is on design. Having said that I think…

Migrate from 5.6 to 5.8

I am migrating data from a 5.6.3.4 install to fresh install of 5.8 on localhost. I have done this before with c5.6 > c 5.7 Following the links here and insturctions: https://www.concrete5.org/index.php?cID=710973 However C5.6. thorws and error on…

Error when saving page or block

Hi all you fab folk.... We have come across a very strange error, not sure what has caused it. We upgraded to 5.7.5.13 but it didn't seem to happen straight away. When we save a page or block after editing a new tab is opened that is just white wit…

New Instance of a stack

I thought that if I create a new stack and put it on a page that if I want to edit it I could and it would just create it's own instance just like the clipboard? So are stack unique that you would create it once and it is locked and if you want to chan…

Adding rounded corners or CSS to images

How do I attach a style to the image tag? If I make a new block and add an image to it I can't add a class. It will let me add a class to the block via "Design & Custom Template" but it does't attach itself to the image tag. It adds it to the block …

Express for User Groups

FYI, c5's express objects are getting a bit of a plug at https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2618709 I hope the advice proffered there is correct!

Centralized Core with v8 Issues

Has anyone had any luck centralizing the core (/concrete) for multiple sites on version 8 (8.1.0 at the time of writing this)? I'm using Digital Ocean as my host running Ubuntu Linux 16.04.2 on a LAMP stack. I've followed this old tutorial, but with…

Changing the sign up admin email

Quick question. When making the website, I simply input my own email with the idea I'd change it later, but I can't find where to change it. I googled the problem and saw I have to look for config/site.php but that hasn't been around since 5.7. I kn…

Site hosted in subfolder - can't remove folder name from URL

A quick bit of background - client was going to host site, and after build complete decided they did not want to host, so we arranged alternative hosting and moved site. Seemed to be working fine but then hit a raft of 500 errors - service provider eventu…

Page Attribute = Save Browsed Directory Path

I would like to create a Page Attribute that can browse to a specific folder path and save that path as a "Page Attribute". Currently I can manually type in the path, but I need site editors able to simply browse to it from a Page Attribute and save that …

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