New Quick Start Guide for concrete5.7

We've recently released a quick start guide for concrete5.7, a handy, printable guide to help newcomers. This time we've done things a little differently, by releasing it on Leanpub and Github.

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Using concrete5.7's thumbnail editing

We've recently started using concrete5's thumbnail editing feature with great results. In this video we demo this feature and show how to use it in your concrete5 development.

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Namespacing and use statements in concrete5 5.7

The biggest difference when it comes to developing in concrete5 5.7, versus 5.6, is the introduction of namespacing. In this video I talk through some common cases where you need to consider namespacing and point out the patterns involved.

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How to manually upgrade concrete5 (5.7)

It's important to keep concrete5 installs up-to-date with new bugfix and security releases. In this video I walk through the steps we take to manually perform updates on 5.7 installs of concrete5.

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eCommerce on concrete5 5.7 with Snipcart

We've recently launched to the concrete5 marketplace an add-on that allows you to easily add Snipcart eCommerce functionality to your concrete5 5.7 site. See our video for how it all fits together.

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eCommerce package releases on githhub

We regularly develop custom concrete5 packages for concrete5 to solve project specific problems. Recently we've been developing several show sites, so we've developed quite a number of eCommerce specific packages.

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Adding social media share links to a concrete5 website

If you're running a concrete5 based website where you post blog posts, news items, events, or any kind of content where you'd like visitors to share your content on social networks, it's a great idea to include some 'share' links/buttons. Here's how to add some basic links in concrete5.

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A Multi Page Selector Attribute for concrete5

Concrete5's page attributes are great for managing complex page data - on a recent project we created a 'Multi Page Selector Attribute' to be able to relate one page to many. Feel free to download this from our github repository.

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