1. Sign in to concrete5 dashboard.
2. Go to ‘Pages and Themes‘ section.
3. Click ‘Customize‘ button for a theme you want to edit.
4. If the theme supports the feature, you’ll see ‘Background‘ in theme customization options. You can choose any color using color picker and preview it almost immediatelly. Click ‘Save’ to apply the change.

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1. Sign in to admin dashboard.
2. Go to ‘Scrapbook‘ section.
3. Open ‘Global Scrapbook‘ there.
4. There will be one block there – Content: “My_Site_Name”.

You can go 2 ways: you can either edit this content block and add the picture via ‘Add image’ button, or you can do the following:

1) delete the content block (My_Site_Name);
2) Add new block of ‘Image’ type (it will allow you to choose/upload the logo and set logo dimensions you want);
3) after you add the image block, it will be assigned a default block name like ‘Global Scrapbook 34′. You should click ‘Rename’ button and change the block name to My_Site_Name. Click ‘Save’ to finish the renaming procedure;
4) go to the site frontend and check if the logo is used instead of sitename. If not, that might be a problem with concrete5 theme (currently only cordobo green park theme supports it on our website, but we’ll update the other concrete5 themes soon). You’ll need to edit html code in this case, see this article then.

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So, try this:

Open ‘concrete/startup/shutdown.php‘ file.

And modify it in the following way:

<?php
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die(_("Access Denied."));
$db = Loader::db();
if (is_object($db)) {
	$db->disconnect();
}

$dp = @opendir(DIR_BASE);
if ($dp) {
	while(false !== ($file = @readdir($dp))) {
		if (strpos($file, 'core.') === 0)
			@unlink(DIR_BASE."/".$file);
	}
	@closedir($dp);
}
exit;

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So, here are the latest additions in concrete5 themes:

Desk Mess Mirrored

Shades of Blue

Both themes were converted from popular wordpress templates. If you have some design and want a concrete5 theme, you are welcome to use our theme integration service. We’ll be glad to help you convert design to concrete5 theme.

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If you have any questions, suggestions, you’re welcome to comment this thread.

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It’s a very simple block that can be used as an example for developers on how to develop a simple block. Though we hope that somebody will find the real use of this addon.

P.S. Quiet strange, but idea of this block came from a spam comment saying "What’s the time?" That’s our response. Spammers, download the block and go away. Pleeeeease.:)

P.P.S. If you are not a spammer (we hope), check our concrete5 blocks page from time to time. More blocks (and free stuff as well) is coming soon.

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Please welcome the Tag Cloud package for concrete5 cms

This package allows to easily add and edit page tags (via Page Tags) block and to display tag cloud (Tag Cloud block). You can see example on our demo installation:

http://demo.smartwebprojects.net/tag-cloud-package/

We have 2 license types available:

Single website license ($15.00) is for usual website owners. This license allows the buyer to use the addon on one concrete5 website.

Developer license ($60.00) is for web developers, designers and/or web studios who need to have the addon installed on more than 1 website.

See more details (including screenshots) on the block page details:
http://www.smartwebprojects.net/concrete5-blocks/tag-cloud/

There are some more addons in development phase, so check back our site for new updates, subscribe to RSS feed or follow us on twitter

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If you sign in as admin, the concrete5 editing toolbar appears at the top of all pages. This sometimes can cause a problem making body background not align properly with some other images on the page if it was designed as a single picture. There is a workaround I’m going to tell you about.

Use this condition in concrete5 theme php files:

<?php
global $cp;
if (is_object($cp) && ($cp->canWrite() || $cp->canAddSubContent() || $cp->canAdminPage())) {
	echo ' style="background-position: 0 50px;"';
}
?>

The above example shows how you can add ‘ style="background-position: 0 50px;"’ when the editing toolbar is being displayed. You can use it to add style to body. ‘background-position: 0 50px’ will make the background shift 50 pixels lower from the top of the window. You can use this to append some extra class or style attribute to any element that gets corrupt when admin is signed in.

If you have any difficulties doing concrete5 theme, you can request free quote on our concrete5 theme integration service.

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body {
  text-align: center;
}

It will completely mess your WYSIWYG area making all the text go centered. The final result might be ok (most probably you use some blocks with classes to align the content properly), but editing is a little confusive when you see centered text in edit mode and aligned to left in the final.

So, the first advice is to think twice before moving anything from general stylesheet to typography.css.

By the way, if you are just playing with typography.css, you might be confused by the stylesheet being cached. There is a workaround: open ‘concrete/blocks/content/editor_config.php’ and find the following line:

	content_css : "<?php echo $theme->getThemeEditorCSS(); ?>",

and change it in the next way:

	content_css : "<?php echo $theme->getThemeEditorCSS() . "?" . time(); ?>",

This will add timestamp to the stylesheet URI every time, so it won’t be cached. Don’t forget to remove this workaround once you are ready.

So, what should finally go to typography.css? Consider this:

If you have some global style defined through body and it is not changed in subsequent classes, use it. For example: font colors and font families are often defined globally for the whole content:

body {
    font-family: Arial;
    color: #393939;
}

If you have some style that is applied to ALL links, use it as well:

a {
    color: #393999;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
    color: #3939c9;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

And if you have global styles for headings of any level, move it to typography.css as well:

h1 {
   font-size: 30px;
}
h2 {
   font-size: 22px;
}
h3 {
   font-size: 16px;
}

We hope this tutorial helps some developers build better concrete5 themes.

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snowblind – is a nice wordpress theme that we decided to convert into concrete5 template. Right now it supports one page type with left sidebar. In the nearest future we are planning to add more page types in this theme and we’ll also make it customizable from admin backend (concrete5 supports partial customizations of themes right from the dashboard).

Theme URL: http://www.smartwebprojects.net/concrete5-themes/snowblind/

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