Developing (v7+)

Updating blocks on a server you don't have control of

I'm working on a development where I don't have my usual degree of access to the server. A Package I'm building for C5 which is bespoke will need to be upgraded every so often as development continues but I can't be certain I'll be able to upload the z…

Blog Content migration from one c5 site to another

Hey All, Anyone know of an easy way to migrate lots of blog content from an old c5 site to one we've just finished? I know it's really easy to do with wordpress, was hoping there was some similar tool or something for c5?

How to override Core class in v8

Hi. I need to extend class Concrete\Core\Sharing\ShareThisPage\Service. Actually, i need to override method getServiceIconHTML(). How can I do that?

Express Forms, "columns", CSS, checkboxes, my layout example

So I built a fairly large Express Form, with three different field sets. The problem was, it was very tall, and scrolling to fill out a form is not exactly a good user experience. As such, I wanted to visually set it up so some of the fieldsets were besid…

How much power does /application have over /concrete?

Does the /application override work with *any* file? Specifically, would /application/src/Cookies/CookieJar.php override /Concrete/src/Cookies/CookieJar.php? My organization has a thing about persistent cookies -- even when set to "0", they don't w…

Passing Single Page URL Param into Block (v8.1.0)

Hi, I have a single page: /admin/remarks/add ...that has method/action in the controller called "member": /admin/remarks/add/member I am passing 2 Express Entity values on the URL - the first being the express form object and the second being…

Can't Download Packages

Hi, I have a site that is runs a legacy version of Concrete5... 5.4.1. They site owner has had a lot of spam coming through their contact form. I have been trying to download a new add-on to help (a recaptcha add-on or something like that to help)…

Autonav with custom header tag

Hi I have an autonav block and i want to add a h2 tag that can be set within the block editor. I want to be able to add the same background color behind both the autonav ul and the h2 tag within a div. I know I can create an area in a template and …

Autonav with custom header tag

Hi I have an autonav block and i want to add a h2 tag that can be set within the block editor. I want to be able to add the same background color behind both the autonav ul and the h2 tag within a div. I know I can create an area in a template and …

Managing large datasets

I'm in the process of converting a Wordpress-based application into a C5 one and have run into an issue with the DB handling. I know for a fact I will have to return datasets of very large numbers of records (e.g. for export) and this 'broke' Wordpress…

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