It's currently top of my now-find-fatal-flaws list, but it really looks promising. Got 5 stars on a cms review page where grav =4 and bolt = 3.5. Other cms rankings looked on-target to me. Other 5 stars were big, expensive enterprise mysql-heavy stuff.
I see "file includes" as a selectable page element.
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BTW, I'm running their online demo.
I see "Uploaded Files" section and navigating to it, I see 4 folders for file, flash, image, media. Lemme see... BINGO! I can create a subfolder under images.
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Looks like I nested 3 levels of folders within the one I created. That's deep enough, but I don't think it limits. Could go deeper.
Plugins » Simple Blog 3.0.2
Designed to enable a simple reverse-chronological commentary on your site. Includes RSS feed, editable labels, categories gadget and archive gadget.
Version 2.0 introduces category browsing, pretty urls and the ability to have new comments emailed to an administrator.
Version 1.8 introduces 'drafts'.
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Plugins » Bootstrap Carousel Gallery 1.2.4
A dynamic gallery built from Twitter Bootstrap's Carousel. This is a responsive gallery and uses selected images to fill the gallery space. Configuration options include auto-start, interval time and height.
Version 1.2.4 updated for Typesetter 5.0
Version 1.1 add swipe functionality for mobile devices
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Plugins » Shadow Box Gallery 1.1
A dynamic gallery for file sections and extra content. Includes auto-start, height and speed configuration options (gpEasy 4.0rc3+).
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Plugins » Multiple Sites
Helps you manage multiple installations of gpEasy. The Multiple Sites plugin is prepackaged with gpEasy.
Tags: Prepackaged
Details
Minimum Typesetter Version
Used Most with Typesetter Versions 4.5.0 4.3.4 4.6.1 4.4.0
Last Updated 4 years ago (2012-02-19)
Created 6 years ago (2009-11-09)
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NOTE the references to gpEasy. Wonder if Typesetter is a fork? http://trueacu.com/gpEasy
User setup & permissions look OK. They show the following as buttons. Unless there is a way to corral or limit the buttons (1 shown for each page under the File Editing section at the bottom, this could get huge. Think 500-page site. Could potentially choke/lock admin panel when adding a new user.
Grant Usage:
Control Panels
All
Page Manager
Uploaded Files
Extra Content
Galleries
Trash
Appearance
Appearance
Available
Configuration
CDN
User Permissions
CKEditor
Classes
Permalinks
Missing Links
Export
Site Status
Uninstall Prep
Resource Cache
Plugins
Available
Errors
About Typesetter
Preferences
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File Editing
All
About
Child Page
Contact
Galleries
Heading Page
Help Videos
Home
Missing
More
RCJ test Text & Image
Search
Site Map
You can set up 301 or 302 redirects in a list.
Has compress & export site
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http://www.typesettercms.com/Themes/130_h5_html5_template
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more plugins than the ones I listed from the demo
http://www.typesettercms.com/Plugins
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According to their blog, they just changed the name from gpeasy to typesetter at the first of this(? no date) year.
OK, time to load this one on the server.
Docs are here
https://www.typesettercms.com/Docs/
Loaded no prob.
File InclusionInclude the content of a gadget or another Typesetter page.
File Inclusion: choose another Typesetter page to include within the current page as a section.
Gadgets: add a gadget to the section. Gadgets are created by Typesetter plugins. They give added functionality to your site.
CKEditorCKEditor is the default WYSIWYG HTML editor for Typesetter. By default CKEditor has been setup with a wide range of toolbars. If you would like to setup your own toolbars please see the CKEditor Custom Toolbar documentation. To change the CKEditor configuration in Typesetter, open the "CKEditor" admin page under "Settings" in the admin toolbar.
So, you could even
gut customize the wysiwyg before you turned a client loose in there, Dras.
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There is a markdown plugin. It might work on chrome mobile. I haven't worked with markup/down, though.
https://www.typesettercms.com/Plugins/301_EasyMark_MarkDown_for_GPEasy
Syntax Highlighter, too.
https://www.typesettercms.com/Plugins/227_Syntax_Highlighter
Admin
Content
Page Manager
Organize the pages of your site and manage menus.
Uploaded Files
Upload and organize images, pdf files, etc
Extra Content
Edit and manage extra content areas
Trash
Deleted pages are stored in the "Trash"
Appearance
Layouts
The overall design of your website is determined by your sites layout
Settings
Configuration
Customize site-wide configuration options including keyworkds, contact form delivery, etc
User Permissions
Add and modify user settings
Permalinks
Enable or disable pretty urls
Missing Links
Control how gpEasy handles requests when a page can not be found
Uninstall Preparation
If you need to remove gpEasy from a server, you may need to run the uninstall preparation script before deleting the data files.
Login appears to lock the site to other editors. Page-level locking would be better, but -hey- you can't have everything you want at this price. Other editors (or the same user trying to simultaneously access from another device) get a 'locked' message pop-up after they login. The message says the other active user will timeout after X minutes. I *think* it does auto-logout after 15 minutes inactivity.
I COULD login using Chrome on Note4 (Android). I edited some text and it updated properly. I was kind of shocked to see how CKEditor looked and performed on mobile Chrome. Very similar to the desktop, maybe even the same. CKEditor lets you have a source code view. Looks like you could code directly in that sub-window and skip the wysibullshit.
Building a page is a plodding process. The overall feel is like working with early Win Word. Looks like you have to build the menu manually. I may be able to hack in some php menu-generating snippets using the includes feature ...assuming that works as expected.
There is some indication that you can upload whole pages built offline. I don't think you'll be able to edit them with CKEditor, though. I will have to explore that later.
Really enjoying reading through the updates here. I may give this one a whirl for an upcoming project.
I built a page using the phone. THAT was painful, but it worked and I expect it to get better as a good portion of the pain was due to just not being familiar with the admin & page editing functions. Overall, the biggest problem was lack of screen real estate, as expected.
I haven't gotten mod_rewrite working yet. I really wasn't expecting to, though, as my server guy is paranoid and kills that kind of stuff server-wide.
It appears that this cms uses some sort of pseudo-directory setup to fake the path. For instance, if the path is domain.com/Blog there is no corresponding /Blog directory on the server.
There is a blog plugin and se-url module for it
https://www.typesettercms.com/Plugins/17_Simple_Blog
https://www.typesettercms.com/Plugins/188_SimpleBlogSEO
There is a really impressive responsive IMAGE plug-in
https://www.typesettercms.com/Plugins/293_Responsive_Image
>There is a blog plugin and se-url module for it
This is what I'm looking forward to hearing about.
>blog
I've run it once and built a page. It works. IIRC, it puts a specialized version of the CKEdit on a special blogging screen. My impression was that I liked it a little better than the clunky page-create on the regular admin console.
There are settings to change sort order, how you want the slug structured, and sort order. There are admin-defined categories and an rss feed, too.
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I liked it well enough that I'm wondering if I can set up more than one blogs on the same domain and build some "directories" using the blog app with custom skins so that it doesn't appear to be a blog.
It uploaded a pix from the phone's camera roll to the site. Only 75% as painful. OK, maybe 85.
I like what I hear so far. Should I start with this or try another option for comparing notes?
You should start, I think. I'm almost certain that you are going to want this one in your client toolbox. The caveat is that I think it will hit a wall at 50-100 pages. But that's a minor concern, I've made hybrid sites plenty of times.
AFAIK
now, there is no way to import html files into this cms and have them work as public pages out of the box. That said, this cms sets the path to its asset directory. Under that, it has 4 subdirs for these predefined asset types: image, file, flash, media. The cms allows nested dirs. SO, a dev moving (or fast-building) a site could lay out his asset dirs in sync with where the TScms twin site is going to expect to find them using the same relative paths. FTP the images, snippets, etc into the asset dirs, then use the admin console to create the cms-recognized page as a shell. THEN past the page code into that shell. That clear?
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image path in my test site
http://gmcmotorhomesforsale.com/data/_uploaded/image/groundeffects0front.jpg
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I should verify that nested image dirs will work with their pages.
Yeah that would complicate things for my use. I plan to leave existing html alone and drop this (or something) into a dir for a matching blog.
>leave existing html alone and drop this (or something) into a dir for a matching blog
Should work, but won't be dog simple. I've done it before. You're going to have to change a config path or three so they share the same layout files; js, css, php includes.
A quicker/dirtier fix is to just make TMcss blog in a complimentary design and code it into your main menu both sides. TS just treats anywhere you drop it as home, so sub dir for blogging only would work. The problem, though, will be linking to existing images on the master site. I'd move them down into TM and do a F&R on the master site's paths, then they'd share.
Well, what I'm hoping is to drop in php includes for <blog side nav>, <the post> (plus loop), etc.
I asked a dev I've been talking with on upwork, for how much to just make it happen, if he could work with this cms and he said sure, it's just "gpeasy" with a new brand. FWIW
>drop in php includes for <blog side nav>, <the post> (plus loop), etc.
That's what I *think* will work, but I'm not versed enough in gpeasy>TS to know for sure. Debbie says that bootstrap should flow across the domain, blog included, without extreme amounts of work.
That's my thinking/debbie too. I'm planning to hire someone to just-do-it and be able to replicate.
I'm going with this one for a quickie AMZ aff site. I'm in deep enough already that I can see that it'll work with some hacks and work-arounds. Even the default theme looks PFG on mobile.
You don't have to hold my beer, though. I'm slammed with stuff to do that I've been putting off. It may be a while. I hope to have some notes to compare in Hanoi.