Concrete5

If, like me, you often develop on a Windows platform and then host using a *Nix-based server, Concrete5 has a gotcha which will probably hit you when you come to publish your site.

At some point no doubt you’ll reach the point where you’ve copied the codebase to your server, created a database dump and imported it into the MySQL instance on your *Nix-based server. Try browsing to your site at this point, though, and you’ll get a message a lot like this:

Having played around with Less for a while, I’m quite taken with it. Especially with useful tools such as Twitter's newly released Bootstrap being optimised to work with it.

I needed the means to add a quote to a website I was working on – a simple task, which could be acheieved by simply adding a text or HTML block. However this can be taken a step further by implementing a simple block type specifically for quotes, with the markup generated for you.

In this simple tutorial, I’m going to show how Concrete5 can be extended to integrate a third-party JQuery plugin to enhance an existing module, and then how this can be encapsulated in a package.

I’m going to allow the slideshow module to display images using the clean & lightweight Craftyslide plugin, pictured below.

There are so many Content Management Systems (CMS’s) out there that due to the sheer volume of choice it’s easy to plump for the best known options, such as Drupal, Joomla! and Wordpress. However there are times when these “flagship” CMS’s might not be the best option.