New Marketing Strategy for Concrete CMS

The issue with our documentation is it tends to not cover everything from a no-experience go at it, and that then things get added that make parts of the documentation invalid. …

says ob7dev on 02/19/21 at 3:37 am, in reply to “I like everything mentioned in…”

No location options in Dash board?

I usually add new pages from the site map. It sets the location automatically. You click on where you want it to show up then click add page. I'm not sure why location wouldn'…

says ob7dev on 02/19/21 at 2:23 am, in reply to “Hi, I've tried adding a new…”

Creating website for first time. Error and cannot go further

Are you using xampp / localhost or running on a live server?

says ob7dev on 02/04/21 at 11:23 pm, in reply to “PS I am using PHPMyAdmin.”

Are you using phpMyAdmin or mysql from command line? Were you able to access your site in the past and just recently started having problems? Or is this a new install?

says ob7dev on 02/01/21 at 2:15 am, in reply to “Thank you so very much!!!! I …”

I've never had that specific problem, which seems to be due to the database not accepting connections on the port specified. The default mysql port is 3306

says ob7dev on 01/29/21 at 9:26 pm, in reply to “Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOExcept…”

Credentials supplied to concrete5 to access the sql database did not work. Typically you don't use 'root' as user, but you make a separate user for each site, make a database, t…

says ob7dev on 01/29/21 at 5:32 am, in reply to “Error Message. Help is apprec…”

Tutorial Fail

There's a new tutorial, one of the sections here might help out: https://documentation.concrete5.org/building-website-concrete5/5-add-basic-editability-to-your-site/06-enable-conc…

says ob7dev on 01/29/21 at 12:48 am, in reply to “Hoping someone has experienced…”

Origins & Vision

This is great. Thank you frz!

says ob7dev on 01/29/21 at 12:26 am, in reply to “With the new year rolling, I j…”

Looking for hosting and support

thanks everyone i found someone to take over the hosting David

says ob7dev on 09/12/20 at 6:08 am, in reply to “Hey everyone, I have two cl…”

Hey everyone, I have two clients that I need to find a new hosting provider for once their contracts with me run out. Both clients pay $180 a year, and require DNS, domain mana…

says ob7dev on 09/11/20 at 11:56 pm

Cron Job Email Messages

If you want the results of an automated job emailed to you, according to my research you can set up the Default job to run via cron on the server, and you can then pipe the cron re…

says ob7dev on 05/31/19 at 11:07 pm, in reply to “We have had some email issues …”

Integrating PayPal using Forms and generating a unique ID

How does the unique ID need to be given to paypal? My first guess would be adding it to the paypal URL with javascript before the user submits the form.

says ob7dev on 05/31/19 at 10:37 pm, in reply to “I have been using Foarms and P…”

Calling js function in my theme with custom block?

I have a package that can help you with the smooth scrolling stuff: https://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/anchor-tag-links-smooth-scrolling/

says ob7dev on 05/31/19 at 10:34 pm, in reply to “I have just started using C5 i…”

Can't enter backend after editing pages on Sitemap

I would try upgrading the c5 version by uploading the newest version to your updates folder then updating from the admin panel. 8.1 was a bit buggy and updating could solve the pr…

says ob7dev on 05/31/19 at 10:30 pm, in reply to “I am having trouble developing…”

Populating Database Table with Default Keys

Well I suppose you could be right. Either way I think I still need to insert a row of default values during install. But I understand now where I was mixed up thanks to your answ…

says ob7dev on 03/04/19 at 2:49 am, in reply to “I might be misunderstanding, b…”

Hello, I have a plugin, it installs itself as a single page in the dashboard. The root of my package contains a db.xml file. In this file are the tables I would like set up, a…

says ob7dev on 03/04/19 at 12:52 am

Concrete 5 Dashboard Options not appearing

You may be on shared hosting, meaning your site shares the same environment as many other sites. But it sounds like an environment problem on the host. One way to find out if a…

says ob7dev on 01/13/19 at 8:16 pm, in reply to “Hi, Thanks for your respons…”

Access Denied

Do you have access to the server and files? You can start by removing the canonical URL saved in plain text in the application/config directory and then clear the cache using ./bi…

says ob7dev on 01/11/19 at 6:54 pm, in reply to “I moved my website from one UR…”

Concrete 5 Dashboard Options not appearing

Are you using apache or nginx? Installed any new plugins recently? Or did you do an update. Basically what changes have been made recently that may have caused this? Ho…

says ob7dev on 01/11/19 at 6:52 pm, in reply to “Hi, I am facing issues when…”

Override core edit functionality via a plugin?

Is there a way to override and extend the core editing functionality via a plugin? For example, I could save a bunch of time if I don't need to confirm deleting a block each tim…

says ob7dev on 12/28/18 at 2:56 pm