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I’m pleased to release a simple block called Social Icons. It functions similar to what you see on the left of this page, by entering a URL into the block, the icon and link will appear automatically pre-formated that can be changed with CSS. This block is free!
You can download the block on the Concrete5 [...]
I’m please to announce I have been selected as a featured member on the concrete5 community page. Concrete5 certainly has changed the way I build websites and applications and I am proud to be apart of such a great open source community! If you haven’t joined the forums yet, now is a good time.
Concrete5 has built in site statistics tracking but it’s very simple and records every hit, not checking if the user is unique. This can create some very large database tables and possibly slow down your website. Although the graph will remain in the dashboard, the site will no longer track all the visits.
Open up config/site.php [...]
Many times you need to inject includes of javascript or css into the header instead of writing the include path into add.php or edit.php. This is a much cleaner solution and can be accomplished in the blocks controller.php. In this example I include both swfobject and jquery’s colorpicker libraries as well as the jquery colorpicker [...]
Many people do not like the default spacer that Concrete5 uses for its page titles which is “::”
To change this, open config/site.php and add the following code:
define(‘PAGE_TITLE_FORMAT’, ‘%1$s – %2$s’);
You may adjust the “-” character in the above code to any that you wish and that will become your new page title divider.
*Edit*: Just submitted version 1.2 to the Concrete5 Marketplace. This version now includes a wysiwyg editor, so you can now style your text, add images and customize the testimonial as much as you like.
It also includes a new optional content textbox to add additional information below the testimonial. View the updated screenshots below!
*Edit*: The Concrete5 [...]
Hello,
I’d like to welcome you to this, my first blog post. I will have some articles up soon mostly focusing on Concrete5, an amazing CMS I have been using recently.
This blog will feature articles on web design, web development, backpacking and even some posts regarding learning the German language (Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache!).
So stay tuned!
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