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Hi,
Concrete5 newbie, first post.
My installation resulted in only 3 page types:
- full
- home
- right sidebar
The instructional videos/docs all include at least one more (blog), I've seen several others.
How can I get them on my install?
...
Also, setting navigation location (top, either side) is unclear to me: is this strictly a function of the page type? Is there a white paper or video on this subject?
Can I customize nav behavior (hi-lite and/or expand/collapse on dragover w/my own css? Again, video of white paper url just fine.
Concrete5 newbie, first post.
My installation resulted in only 3 page types:
- full
- home
- right sidebar
The instructional videos/docs all include at least one more (blog), I've seen several others.
How can I get them on my install?
...
Also, setting navigation location (top, either side) is unclear to me: is this strictly a function of the page type? Is there a white paper or video on this subject?
Can I customize nav behavior (hi-lite and/or expand/collapse on dragover w/my own css? Again, video of white paper url just fine.
Of the Concrete5 core theme installations, dark chocolate, yogurt and greek yogurt have a page type called blog_entry.
If you have installed another theme, you will want to check and see if it has this page type, or something similar.
To do this:
- Go to the Themes menu in the Dashboard under Pages and Themes.
- Scroll down to the theme that you installed.
- Select "Inspect"
If there is some page type called blog, or post, or blog entry - you're golden and can move on with your life.
If there is not, you have several options for getting one. The simplest would be to grab one of the blog add-ons (there are several) and roll that into your theme. They will create your missing attributes and pretty much allow to get things running pretty quickly.
The slightly technical would be to do the customizing yourself. Jordan Lev does a great how-to here:http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/editors/manually-set...
The less technical, but possibly will cost you: Ask the developer of your theme to update it with a blogging page type.
Hope this helps!
If you have installed another theme, you will want to check and see if it has this page type, or something similar.
To do this:
- Go to the Themes menu in the Dashboard under Pages and Themes.
- Scroll down to the theme that you installed.
- Select "Inspect"
If there is some page type called blog, or post, or blog entry - you're golden and can move on with your life.
If there is not, you have several options for getting one. The simplest would be to grab one of the blog add-ons (there are several) and roll that into your theme. They will create your missing attributes and pretty much allow to get things running pretty quickly.
The slightly technical would be to do the customizing yourself. Jordan Lev does a great how-to here:http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/editors/manually-set...
The less technical, but possibly will cost you: Ask the developer of your theme to update it with a blogging page type.
Hope this helps!
Regarding the nav, unless you choose to hard code the navigation, you will utilize either the autonav block or the page list block for navigation (most choose the autonav block).
To start, you can copy the root/concrete/blocks/autonav folder to the root/blocks folder
Modify the root/blocks/autonav/view.php to adjust how the autonav works. JordanLev has a great article on how to do this here:http://c5blog.jordanlev.com/blog/2011/12/customizing-the-autonav-te...
Then when you put one of your pages in edit mode, you add a block and choose autonav as the block type. You can read up on the autonav block here:http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/in-page-edit...