A Complete How-To

[Paul Webb]

Hi everyone,

I just started using Core this week and got everything installed, no problem. That's where it stops. I have no idea how to do practically *anything* in Core, and combing this forum and the Internet for further details has yielded no results. Could someone help me figure out how to [ 01 ] create a page, [ 02 ] create an entry, and [ 03 ], add content to it?

I would greatly appreciate it. I have seen wonderful sites made from Core so I hope some of those designers frequent this forum every now and then. If there are enough replies to this, this post should be stickied for future newbies.

[jyemail]

Hi Paul,

I'm not advanced user but ready now I understand very well Core CMS back-end, so.

First one: do you have undestand thar Core CMS is primary a portfolio web, it is focused to that.

Create pages: so easy; in the back-end (admin-panels)

• Content/Pages: add new pages will open a page with 2 inputs: file title and content
• The file title is the name of you pages and is the same url www.yourdomain.com/#Yourpage, this input doesn't accept a "tildes" or ç ñ, if you wanna put it, write in html symbols, like this (ñ).
• The content is a html input space, you must to write in html code, or use a online html editor to take advanced of it.
• When you are ready just click edit content, this save your page.
• Now looking for Editing: Namepage (back), click here to come back to the content or use the menu on the top.

If you have more than one page, you could reorder the pages, just LMB over the page and drag up&down to rearrange them, but to save the new order, you must to click in summit rearrange.

The entries are similar to the pages at the beginning, once saved, it not.

• Create new entry: click in Add new entry.
• Now we find 2 fields: Tags and Inputs
• Tags: if not create one before, it will be empty.
• Inputs: has to parts:
• titles: very similar to the pages but has more than one input: title, client, extra1 and extra2. Title is the name of the entry, so you must to fill up, the rest is more information that you could fill or not.
  
• texts: like the content pages, html...
• Save it with add.
• Now we have 6 fields: Actions, Files, Upload, Switches and Inputs.
• Files: Image, sound or video will appear here. at the beginning is empty.
• Upload: unexplained.
• Switches: 2 options: news and show. I'll be honest, I haven't idea how to use the news, but if you unclick the show the page is hidden and blocked.
• Inputs: it not changed has the same input to fill up.
  
• Actions: this is the most important field, this control how is going to show up and which. it has 3 buttons (Edit custom layout, Deleted entry and Reset hits "is a historical record")
  
  edit custom layout: is a little bit complex but no many:
  It has 2 fields Commands/info (clickable) and Inputs/content.
  The commands/info are like some php code short cuts and are really easy to use because they have an easy names.
  The Inputs/content is the war field, here is the place where you will design how is going to show up the item. it could be easy or complex, is up to you.
  To better understand this, you have to know how Core send the information that we see on the web. The Core wrapper is divided in 4 sections: Menu, Load-Content, thumbs and footer, so the inputs/content control the load-content in the entry pages. In the pages the fields file-title and content are in the load-content, they looks like the same but not, in the entries you have some more controls and options.
  

For this moment is all, too late here; so, I'm going to sleep.