How to Add a Backend Preview Thumbnail for Image Fields in Your CMS Made Simple News Modules

Last Updated on Monday, 30 April 2012 09:47 Written by Nic Bug Wednesday, 2 May 2012 12:00

If you want to have a nice backend preview of the uploaded images in your CMS Made Simple news entries, you need to do the following:

1. Create a new Field Definition named “Image” and type File in News Module:

How to Add HTML Code to Your Menu Items in CMS Made Simple

Last Updated on Monday, 2 April 2012 10:23 Written by Nic Bug Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:00

Sometimes you want to add some HTML Code to your menu items. For example, you may want to add an image, highlight special words or colorize certain words with <span></span> tags. By default CMS Made Simple does not allow this.

But this is very easy to implement!

The best method is to open MenuManager in your CMS Made Simple project:

How to Put Your CMSMS Metatags on Autopilot

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 08:50 Written by Goran Ilic Wednesday, 27 July 2011 12:00

What i love about CMS Made Simple and Smarty Templating engine is that many issues can be solved with very little effort.
As we all know, maintaining a website can sometimes become fairly painful and time consuming. This can also involve setting and maintaining Meta tags.

Some of you probably know there are SEOTools modules or Autometa plugins that can help in these terms, but as I am not a big fan of using modules when there is no real need for it, I want to show you how easy it is to setup automated Meta tags with nothing but Smarty and our content.

Template Tricks with CMSMS Products Module

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 08:03 Written by Goran Ilic Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:00

There are many great modules for CMS Made Simple. One of those is the Products module, part of Calguy’s eCommerce suite. However, there are some downsides in the template structure, so I want to quickly show you how some long unanswered forum post can suddenly become an answer with a single line of code.

The problem I was facing a few days ago was how could I possibly add “active” class to Products hierarchy navigation and Parent Hierarchy.
If you have ever worked with Products module, you know that the Hierarchy Report Template is not really the best solution as it lacks of some needed variables support like MenuManager provides.

So the default Products install Hierarchy Report Template looks like this:

How to Install CMS Made Simple From Your cPanel Using Softaculous

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 November 2011 12:42 Written by Arian Jahansouz Saturday, 15 January 2011 04:07

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to install CMS Made Simple from your cPanel using Softaculous.

Sign into your cPanel and follow these steps:

1) Scroll down to Software/Services and click Softaculous