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How to Edit a Page

When you are in Content / Pages in 'edit' mode, you will see three sections, or tabs, above the first typing field. The 3 tabs are described below.

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To edit a page of content, or a section header, link or separator, do like this:

  1. Navigate to Content -> Pages in the admin panel.
  2. Click on the title of a page, section header, link or separator (you can also click on the edit symbol at the right on each line Image:edit.gif).
  3. Edit as you wish.
  4. Click Submit (which will save and redirect you to Content -> Pages) or Apply (which simply saves the changes without redirecting). If you click Preview you get to see how the changes will look, but it is only when you click Submit or Apply that the changes are saved.


Main Tab

  • Content Type: Select the content type for this page, there are various choices, such as Section Header, Separator, Content, Link and News
  • Menu Text: The Text that will be shown in the Menu
  • Parent: Select the Parent Page to this page
  • Template: Select the Template that you would like to use to format the content entered below
  • Content: Here's where you can fill in the content of the page, add pictures, put your smarty tags, etc.

Options Tab

  • Active:
  • Show in Menu:
  • Cachable: Whether or not this page can be cached. Some galleries require that the pages are not cached
  • Page Alias: This is used to generate the URL for the page.
  • Metadata: This field is just a big block of code that gets put in between the <HEAD> </HEAD> tags in your page, so as the name suggests this is a good spot for metatags but, you can also put smarty tags in here or even javascript that is particular to this page. Note if you are putting in javascript you should surround it with the {literal} {/literal} tags

==> To add Metadata, surround with tags, for example: <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Type a description of your website in here - this will appear in search engine results"> -- and -- <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Type a list of keywords in here, separated by commas.">

  • Description (Title Attribute): A short description of the page - to see this Metadata TITLE appear, you need to insert the {description} tag in your template
  • Tab Index:
  • Access Key:
  • Owner: Who owns this page and can dictate editors
  • Additional Editors: Who can edit this page

Meta tags required

Metadata or meta tags are required by search engines so they know how to display a website's information in the search results. Look at this snapshot, and notice the different Title Descriptions [bold text] and different Metadata Descriptions [META NAME="description"]:

Image:cmsms-searchresults.jpg

Notice the CMSMS tag {description} is the blue linked heading which appears at the start of each website search result.

The metadata description is the actual sentence or paragraph which gives a mini blurb about that particular page.

So ...?

So if you add text in the CONTENT | PAGE | OPTIONS tab, in the Description field like this:

Image:cmsms-description-tag.png

then you will need to add the tag {description} to your templates, as well as the tag {metadata}

I hope this helps to clarify! :)


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