User's manual - advanced information

Page edit form

Fields on the left side of the page form are:

• Name - name of a page/subpage.
• Short description - displayed on the list of subpages. Learn more »
• Full description - displayed on the details page.

Note!
If full description is empty, short description will be used in page details.

Additional panel consists of the following tabs:

Options

This tab contains fields:

• Status - allows to determine if particular page/subpage should be visible or not.
• Position - defines positions of a page on a menu, list of subpages, etc. Pages with lower position number are displayed before pages with higher position number. Negative numbers are allowed.
• Parent page - selecting a parent page will make a page into a subpage. Learn more »
• Menu - determines to which menu the page will be assigned, if a parent page was not selected.

SEO

This tab contains data, that are not visible directly on a website, they are however very important for search engines. In the tab you can find the following fields:

• Page title - title displayed in a browser's bar, used also by search engines.
• Url name - title displayed in a browser's address bar.
• Meta description - this field contains website's short description.

Add files

In this tab you can choose files, which you want to add to your website from server or computer

• Files from computer - allows to upload files from you computer's hard drive to a server. The files will be uploaded and automatically selected. Learn more »
• Files from server - list of files uploaded to the server (search option available). After checking a file, which you want to put on a page, additional fields will become available:
  • position - order to displaying files, if there are more then one,
  • description - description displayed below the file,
  • localization - for images - localization where the image will be displayed (left/right),
  • thumbnail 1 - for images only - length of the longer side of a thumbnail displayed in subpages list,
  • thumbnail 2 - for images only - length of the longer side of a thumbnail displayed in page details. To learn hot to make this option available, go to initial configuration »

Files

This tab lists all files previously attached to the page. All fields are identical to fields described above. One additional field is available:

• Delete - checking this field and clicking the "save »" button will delete selected files.

Note!

If the attached file is not an image, "localization" and "thumbnail 2" fields are hidden.

Advanced

This tab contains fields:

• Subpages - subpages display style for a particular page. You can select from:
  
  • List (name) – subpages of a given page will be displayed as a list of page names.
  • List (name, description) – subpages of a particular page will be displayed as a list of names with short description.
  • List (name, description, image) - subpages of a particular page will be displayed as a list of names with short description and photo.
  • No display - no subpages list will be displayed.
• Theme - theme file "templates/default/page.php" (default) with php extension, defines the page structure.
• Redirect to URL - entering a full web address into this field means that the visitor will be automatically redirected to the specified address.

To see the list of all pages, click the "pages" tab on the menu, under logo. It will look like on the screenshot below.

Pages in this list are grouped by menu types. For every page you can see the following information:

• Id - page id
• Name - page name
• Position - determines order by which pages are displayed. Pages are displayed in ascending order. Negative values are allowed.
• Status - if this option is checked, the page will be visible client-side.
• Edit - click the
  
  icon to go to the page edit form
• Delete - click the
  
  icon to remove the selected page, your choice must be confirmed.

List options:
• 1. Click one of the fields: id, name, position - the list will be sorted by the chosen field.
• 2. Point to a page (in the list) to see the
  
  icon, that is a link to client-side page preview.
• 3. Search box is placed above the list.
• 4. When page status or position is changed, it is necessary to save changes by clicking the "save »" button either on top or on the bottom of the list.

Pagination means that page content is divided into several pages. It especially useful when a text is long.
To divide text into pages, go to the full description field, and type [break] in the place you want the text to be divided.

As a result, on the bottom of the page links are displayed in the following form:

The script consists of two parts: administration panel (accessible only after logging in) and the client-side part (main part of the site, visible for every visitor). To let an admin preview pages before publishing them for visitors, execute the following steps:

1. In admin panel point to "Tools" and choose the ‘settings’ link. In the ‘options’ tab set ‘yes’ in the ‘Administrator is able to see hidden pages’ field.
2. In list of pages, uncheck the ‘status’ field next to pages you don't want visitors to see and click "save »"
3. In the same browser, where you are logged in to the administration, open new tab with your page (client-side). You will be able to see there also pages set as invisible. They are visible only for user logged on to the administration, other user won’t be able to see them.

If you want to make a specific page visible for every visitor, check the ‘status’ field (see paragraph 2.). Pages preview allows you to check design, layout and content of a page before it's publicly available.