A few remaining questions
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Just about finished getting all the kinks out of my new Concrete5 installation.. but I still have a few remaining questions..
1. Wondering the best practice for logos.. Should I add a box over the navigation and just add a logo into default pages? Or should I hard code the logo into the HTML?
2. If I want to show featured news on the homepage.. (IE: the last couple of news stories posted to the news section) and have it automatically update as I add news.. Is the best way to do that to create an RSS feed out of your news section and add it to the homepage. I found that works.. but there's no link underneath to more news.
3. How do you add a custom template? I see where you can select them.. but I don't see where to create them.
4. How do you add a new layout. I thought I could accomplish this simply by adding a new page to the main directory .. but I can't figure out how to connect that page to the pay layouts page.
5. Still trying to figure out where I would find the control panel navigation in the directory structure. I'd like to add a button for Control Panel above sitemap to make it easier for users to find their way back to the admin dashboard.. but I have no idea where to find that page.
Any help on this would be great appreciated. Thank you!
1. Wondering the best practice for logos.. Should I add a box over the navigation and just add a logo into default pages? Or should I hard code the logo into the HTML?
2. If I want to show featured news on the homepage.. (IE: the last couple of news stories posted to the news section) and have it automatically update as I add news.. Is the best way to do that to create an RSS feed out of your news section and add it to the homepage. I found that works.. but there's no link underneath to more news.
3. How do you add a custom template? I see where you can select them.. but I don't see where to create them.
4. How do you add a new layout. I thought I could accomplish this simply by adding a new page to the main directory .. but I can't figure out how to connect that page to the pay layouts page.
5. Still trying to figure out where I would find the control panel navigation in the directory structure. I'd like to add a button for Control Panel above sitemap to make it easier for users to find their way back to the admin dashboard.. but I have no idea where to find that page.
Any help on this would be great appreciated. Thank you!
Thanks.. I thought of adding the link under the RSS feed manually.. I just wanted to make sure that was the best way to do it..
I mean the links to the left of the control panel.. Starting with Site Map. As far as I know the only way to get back to the dashboard is by clicking on the concrete5 logo..
I mean the links to the left of the control panel.. Starting with Site Map. As far as I know the only way to get back to the dashboard is by clicking on the concrete5 logo..
I think thats it- you can always remove the url after /dashboard, but otherwise I don' t think so- You could ( i guess) make a package like home that is just a single page that redirects to root/dashboard, but that would be pretty hacky.
2. You want to use the Page List block -- this kind of thing is why it exists.
4. If by new layout you mean "page type" or "template", then you add a file to your theme's directory, then go to Dashboard -> Pages and Themes, click the "Inspect" button on the theme that's currently being used on your site, then you should see the new template/page type in the list with a checked box next to it. Click the button at the bottom (can't remember what it's called -- "Update" or "Install" or something?)
4. If by new layout you mean "page type" or "template", then you add a file to your theme's directory, then go to Dashboard -> Pages and Themes, click the "Inspect" button on the theme that's currently being used on your site, then you should see the new template/page type in the list with a checked box next to it. Click the button at the bottom (can't remember what it's called -- "Update" or "Install" or something?)
I thought about using the page list block.... But I don't see any way of specifying which section you want to show up in it.. (Ie: putting news stories on the homepage).
Ideally your news pages would be a different page type, then you can choose that page type in the first dropdown menu of the page list block's edit interface. Otherwise, you can limit it to pages underneath a specific page -- so you have one top-level news page on your site and all new news pages are added under that, then in the page list edit interface you say you want to show pages "beneath another page" and choose that top-level news page.
news: why not add a link in a content block below the rss feed to link to your rss index.
custom template: create a file in root/blocks/(block handle that the custom template is for)/templates/template_name/view.php, view.css, and view.js all of which are optional.
layout: you mean use another page type?
control panel: what? do you mean the dashboard? the dashboard link is already there