Adding a comment capability like at PHP.net for some of the pages on my site. How hard is it to add to C5?

You can see an example of this at http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php WordPress comments operate very similarly. Basically visitors can add comments to the bottom of the documentation there which enhances the documentation, allows the aut…

What is Loader::helper??

I keep seeing this thingy in the source code of various add-ons and the core and am wondering what this is? I mean I know in general that it brings in some functionality available in the helper but what exactly is the helper? Is "Loader::helper"…

Creating sign in and subscribe pages

I have a site which has two buttons - Login and Sign In. I want the Login to go to a registration form and the Sign In to go to the C5 login page. Then people have access to pages with permissions restrictions on them. I guess the Login can go to a si…

Please help me test out new ajax form template

Hello, I've developed a custom template for the built-in form block that submits the form via ajax (so the page doesn't reload). I need some people to help me test it out because Andrew said it wasn't working for him (wasn't forcing him to enter required…

Huge savings with these bundles!

Hi guys, heads up on these bundles....huge savings here! Steph is one of the most talented designers in our community, and I'm super stoked to bundle products together for a ridiculous savings on these bundles. Blogger Bundle: http://bit.ly/gDaH…

Domain mapper and page types

I'm working on a small site that is using some very similar but different page types for each of its 4 pages. Because we host many small sites we use domain mapper. When I was developing and using our main domain each of the pages seems to be using th…

Getting embedded URLs to show the file and extension

This is a followup to another thread in which I was reporting problems integrating ISSUU Smartlook into a Concrete5 site. The problem is that if I upload a file and refer to it in a page, the Concrete5 URL omits the file and its extension. Can this …

Password protected area

Apologies if this has been as before and I couldn't find it. Infact I am kind of hoping that there is a block for this :) I am doing my own portfolio site and some of my work has to be hidden to the public due to contract agreements, etc. I was wonderi…

Timed publication of pages

I wanted a way to only make some pages available after a certain datetime, e.g. Events, Registrations, etc Here's how I did it, nice and simple. Probably duplicating something someone else has already done but it can't hurt! 1. Create a new attribut…

page aliases and the autonav block

Just posted a site with a top level page — http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/donate/ — that is aliased to a subpage in another section: http://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/get-involved/donate/ If you click on the second link you'll notice that TWO top …

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