Some developers may need to show the list of pages that were the most recently updated in concrete5. This code snippet should help you doing this or similar tasks.
So, open the file of your concrete5 theme and add the code snippet specified below. Or you can create a block with such code. Or just simply wait till we release such block the next week or so.;-)
Have you been waiting for new concrete5 template? Here you get it! We are glad to introduce the next wordpress theme converted for concrete5 cms:
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We are glad to introduce just another theme for concrete5 cms:
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Hi everyone!
We have updated our website with new design. Any comments on this are welcome.
We’ve also revised concrete5 themes and made some corrections to them. Now all the themes can be installed in the same way. No need to add specific blocks, just upload, install and activate.
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Recently I noticed that sometimes concrete5 can cause core dump files generated in root concrete5 directory. The files look like core.12345 where 12345 is a process id. It seems that the problem is caused by the application getting out of memory.
You can try to resolve it by increasing memory limit for php. For example, hostgator hosting allows you to upload php.ini file with configuration directives.
You can use the following line to set memory limit to 32 megabytes (or more if you like):
memory_limit = 32M
core dump files contain the application state data only and can be safely deleted without breaking your application. If you are experienced developer or advanced unix user, you can investigate why the application had crashed with gdb utility (GNU project debugger). Use man gdb for reference on the utility usage.
For example:
gdb -c core.4010
It shows the following result:
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/php /home/user/public_html/index.php'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 4010]
#0 0x0830f8bf in ?? ()
Segmentation fault occurs when applications try to access more memory than it is allowed. So try increasing memory limit. That should help you.
There could be a situation when you might need to copy some content from one concrete5-based website to another. You can try doing "Edit page" -> "Edit block", then select all and paste on the new website. It will work if you don’t have text formatting in the block, otherwise it might been copied with some format losses.
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I recommend to apply the following fix in concrete5 to make the result xhtml code be more w3c compliant. As you should know, all ampersands (&) should be replaced with its html representation in hrefs, js sources, image sources, etc.:
&
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Recently I faced with the following problem in Firefox 3.0.8. I prepared a website in Russian language, using concrete5 cms. I didn’t change the default encoding which was UTF-8. But what a strange behavior from Firefox: it correctly detected the encoding only from time to time. I opened the page once – the text was incorrectly displayed, refreshed the page – the text turned to be readable, refreshed more – unreadable again. Really strange, don’t you think so?
I managed to fix the problem by editing index.php in root concrete5 folder, just add the following line of code before the last line:
header("Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8");
This instruction describes the process of installing concrete5 themes that can be found on this website, but should work for any other themes as well.
We distribute themes in zip packages, so you will need a program to extract the files from archive. For example, you can use an open source archiver – 7-zip
Follow step-by-step instruction below:
1. Download theme from our or any other website.
2. Inside zip-archive you will find other ‘themes’ folder or a folder with theme name. You should extract and upload (if your concrete5 is hosted on remote server) the theme folder to ‘CONCRETE5/themes/’ directory, where CONCRETE5 means the root directory of your cms.
Attention: the ‘themes’ directory is empty by default. It shouldn’t confuse you. This folder is used mainly for custom themes and not for themes distributed in default concrete5 pack. There is ‘concrere/themes’ directory (this one not empty) with default concrete5 themes. You shouldn’t upload there anything unless you are going to make some changes to default theme.
Tip: most probably there would be a ‘README.txt’ file with the theme. Please check the archive for such a file, it might contain specific instructions for the theme you’re installing.
3. It’s strange, but you’re almost finished with the theme installation. Now open your dashboard and go to ‘Themes’ tab (since concrete 5.2.0 – “Themes and page types” )
If you do everything properly you will see the newly added theme in the bottom of the page. There should be an ‘Install’ button. Click it.
4. Once the theme is installed, you can choose its design for certain pages. For example, open a page, click ‘Edit this page’ and then click ‘Design’ button. You should see the theme thumbnail among available designs. If you don’t see it, the theme wasn’t installed correctly, or if there are several themes installed, you might need to scroll the selection (click the right arrow button). If you select the new design, this selection will be applied to the page.
You’ll have to select the design for each page unless you activate the theme. To activate it, you should click appropriate button in the ‘Themes’ section of the site dashboard. Note: this action will reset all previously set custom selections, i.e. all pages will be associated with the new design.
Just a reminder: Don’t forget to check ‘README.txt’ file of your theme before installing it.
One more wordpress theme converted to concrete5.
Specifications:
Can be downloaded from the following page: http://www.smartwebprojects.net/concrete5-design/hope-theme/
