Help for CMS Developers
Develop on a content management system: content classes, templates, workflows, permissions, multisite and languages.
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- CMS developers: start here Where developers who build websites and content applications on Exponential start, often coming from anothe...
- Coming from the Kaliop migration bundle For developers who used the Kaliop eZ Migration Bundle (ezmigrationbundle) on eZ Platform and Ibexa project...
- Exponential for CMS developers For CMS developers meeting Exponential for the first time, what the system is, where it comes from, how an...
- Reading paths for CMS developers For CMS developers, reading orders through this section and the related books by goal and available time. T...
- Coming from WordPress For WordPress developers, how what you know maps to Exponential. It covers post types and custom fields, th...
- Coming from Drupal For Drupal developers, how content types and fields, nodes, taxonomy, Views, blocks, modules and hooks, Twi...
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Coming from TYPO3
For TYPO3 developers, how the page tree, content elements and backend layouts, records and storage folders, TCA, TypoScript, Fluid, extensions, site configuration and the scheduler map to Exponential. It also says…
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Coming from eZ Platform or Ibexa
For developers who know eZ Platform or Ibexa DXP and OSS. The content model you know is the same, and this page shows what differs in templates, configuration, extension points and delivery. It also covers the two…
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The content model
For CMS developers new to Exponential, the whole content model on one page. It covers classes, attributes and datatypes, objects, versions and translations, nodes in the content tree, sections, object states and how…
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Objects, nodes and locations
For CMS developers, the difference between a content object and its nodes (locations), the main node, the content tree, sort order, hiding and removing. It also covers which ID to use in templates, PHP and imports.
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Content classes and attributes
For CMS developers, every property of a content class and of a class attribute, what each one changes on the site, and the rules for identifiers, name patterns, containers and changing a class that already has content.
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Choosing datatypes
For CMS developers modelling content, which datatype to choose for each kind of field. It covers the 35 kernel datatypes and the extension datatypes of the default distribution, the choices that are hard to undo, and…
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All pages for CMS Developers- Designing a content model For CMS developers starting a project, a step-by-step method from requirements to a set of classes, attributes, a content tree, sections...
- Creating a content class For CMS developers, a task from start to finish. Create a class in the administration, create content with it, give it a full view templa...
- Relations and embeds For CMS developers, how objects refer to each other. It covers relation attributes, embeds and links in rich text, the four relation type...
- Rich text For CMS developers, how rich text works in Exponential. Text is stored as XML (ezxmltext), edited in the Online Editor, drawn as HTML by...
- Images and image aliases For CMS developers, how images are modelled, stored and scaled. It covers image attributes against image objects, the media library, imag...
- Versions, drafts and publishing For CMS developers, the life of a version. It covers drafts, publishing and archived versions, what the publish operation does for you, v...
- Translations and languages For CMS developers building multi-language sites. It covers content languages against interface languages, translations as part of one ob...
- Sections, roles and policies For CMS developers, how access works in Exponential. It covers roles made of policies, limitations by class, section, subtree, owner, lan...
- Users and registration For CMS developers building member areas and sign-up, users as content objects, user groups, self-registration and its settings, activati...
- Siteaccesses and multisite For CMS developers, how one installation serves several faces such as public sites, languages, the administration and an editor interface...
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