How to Add the Tagging Function to CMS Made Simple Modules Part 1

Last Updated on Friday, 30 November 2012 06:15 Written by Nic Bug Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:00

Tagging is a common and well known feature in Blog Software like WordPress. But unfortunately, it is missing in CMS Made Simple. In this article, I will show you how to add the feature into any module. You can see it in action here.

To understand how it works, I take CGBlog as our desired module in this case. I split the tutorial in two parts because we need new functions in the backend to let the author enter some keywords (tags) and we need the frontend management of the tags. Let’s start with the backend configuration.

Install CGBlog and dependencies first. Then go to CGBlog and add a new “Field Definition”.

How to Compress Your CSS With {cms_stylesheet}

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 12:55 Written by Ken Griffith Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:00

CMS Made Simple attaches stylesheets to a page template with the {cms_stylesheet} tag. Since CMSMS version 1.10, this tag will automatically concatenate all of the stylesheets for a given media type into one CSS file.

You may not be aware that since version 1.10, you can use SMARTY tags inside of CMS Made Simple stylesheets. With a couple of small tricks, you can use this to compress your stylesheets.

Using [[strip]] Tags

In CMS Made Simple stylesheets, we use [[double braces]] instead of {curly brackets} as the SMARTY delimiter. This saves using a ridiculous number of {literal} tags.

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 Create a Simple Silverlight BusyIndicator Based on Grid

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:36 Written by Andrew Ivanov Saturday, 14 April 2012 12:00

Often in the Silverlight applications is very convenient to lock some content while performing continuous operation. In this article, I will demonstrate how this can be done using all the advantages of Grid.

BusyGrid inherits the functionality of Grid. It also includes properties such as:

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: