Working with the Latest Tendenci Modules

Working with the latest

Modules

Go to www. [your site here] .com/en

In the admin bar at the top of your screen, click on “Content”

Go through the dropdown to “Pages” and click the Plus symbol to add a new page

When you go to the Pages Module, you will see a list of pages that have been created. You can also add a page here.

When adding a page, you can customize it to your needs. You have your:• Title – Page Title•URL Path – automatically generates to match the page title, however you can edit it to what you want•Content – The WYSIWYG editor allows you to format the content and give it the desired look•Tags – this is used to pull in certain pages or content to areas in the sidebars, homepage, etc.•Header image – A photo that goes above the page•Template – if your site has multiple templates, you can choose the one you want the content to appear in•Permissions – this is to determine who can view the page, i.e. public, members, “superusers”•Administrator only – this is if the content needs only be visible to the “superusers” who can access anything on the site•Category – this is similar to tags in that you can have areas pull in pages or content from a specific category•SEO Meta – For optimization purposes and search engine information

To make the content move easiest, we recommend copy + pasting from these programs. TextEdit and NotePad both remove formatting (bolding, erroneous spacing, colors) in order to make editing your content in the any content module easiest.

The Stories module is generally used to maintain and add content for your site’s rotator. * You can add Stories from the admin bar and Tendenci dashboard – just like pages.

Differences:•Content field – used to write excerpt of text to entice the reader to “Read More”•Full Story Link•Link title, i.e. “Read More”, “Check it out!”•Tags – to easily add more stories to the rotator•Start & End Date/Time – If it’s a contest, featured article, etc.•Expiration – if you only want it to run until your specified end date/time

An example is YMCA Houston, using the Tendenci Stories module for their rotator.

This module is used to highlight and share official press releases and/or pieces printed about your company or organization.

Differences:•Headline – Title of the news release•Summary – for when someone searches your news publications on the site, they’ll see this•Body field – the content of the news article•Source/Website fields – If you were mentioned on another site and are repeating the content, it is best to put the original news piece URL here, as a courtesy and for link-back purposes•Release Date/Time•Contact fields – for someone inquiring about more information, this is the details on who they would contact

The Articles module is essentially the same layout as the news module, with the same fields.

However, the Articles module is intended to be used for knowledge sharing. This is similar to blogging for your company.

Here you would post content that your company has published, or depending on your industry – product reviews, industry related advancements and news, etc.

Forms are used through your site to collect site visitor information. These are used to create contact forms, contest submission forms, quote request forms, etc.

When you add a form, you are first prompted to create the title, introduction text, confirmation text after submission, and set up the emails that will be sent to the submitter (if you want) and the person collecting the submissions. You can also use this to create a thank you email or confirmation email to send.

Once you’ve created the text and description aspects of the form, you can now create fields. There are several field types and also special functionality fields. A few examples are seen here below. Label is the field nameType is what you want the field to be, i.e. checkbox, dropdown, one line of text, paragraph, etc. Special Functionality is for specific fields such as First Name and Last Name, these are logged within the Tendenci backend for you to export. Default text is what shows up in the field before someone begins to type in it.

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