The CMS plug-in is the "Website Manager", an advanced Content
Management application. It is the primary tool used to perform
more complicated website maintenance tasks, such as:
- installing and updating templates
- configuring multi-lingual websites
- managing and restoring revisions
- creating new sites and subsections
- creating new libraries
- managing secondary content zones on pages
- setting up content sharing and content inheritance
- reconfiguring sections, pages, and content objects
- working with HTML in plain-text mode
CMS data is presented to you in 5 views:
- your sites or sections
- your pages in a section
- content objects in a given page
- revisions of a content object
- preview of a particular revision
By clicking on particular objects to open them, you descend down in
these views. You can move back up to higher views by using the
"bread-crumb" links showing your current position in the CMS
data. At each view, the menubar changes to provide you with a set
of operations you can perform on the object currently being viewed.
The CMS plug-in can handle editable page previews. (This is where
a page preview includes embedded links to edit the content.) To
use CMS, add the following configuration setting to your configuration
file:
cms.editmode = easy
(Note that an alternative setting of "MySite" is actually easier than "easy" mode, so this is a bit of a misnomer.)