Solodev

Matthew Garrepy

Shawn Moore

Documentation for Solodev Content Management System (CMS)

This article shows users how to subscribe to Solodev from the AWS marketplace.

Subscribe to Solodev on the AWS Marketplace

Learn more about choosing and configuring a Solodev stack.

Choosing and installing a Solodev stack

 AWS Marketplace

An overview of the Solodev Dashboard and User Interface.

Solodev Dashboard

Websites in Solodev

Learn more about the Solodev CMS file tree.

Website file structure in Solodev

A high-level overview of users and groups.

Use groups to mimic your organizational hierarchy

An overview of Solodev pages and their constituents.

The basics of a page

What are modules?

A short description of Solodev's configuration settings.

Solodev CMS Configurations

Workspace

Installing a website from a prebuilt theme.

Installing and configuring a theme

Modify CSS, add pages, edit html and customize the logo, color-scheme and content of your website.

Customizing your theme

Learn more about sitemaps and building the folder structure for your website.

Creating a sitemap for your website

Learn more about the best practices for creating and managing your folder structure in Solodev.

Create and manage your folder structure in Solodev

A high level overview of designing layouts for your websites.

Designing your website’s layout

Implement your site design using basic HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Convert your design to basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

An overview of structuring your website with templates based upon sections of your HTML.

Create components based upon sections of your HTML

Create and attach base templates to Solodev Pages.

Create a base template

Create and attach interior templates to Solodev Pages.

Create an interior template

This article shows the user how to create sectional templates and attach them to Solodev Pages.

Create a sectional template

Learn more about Dynamic Divs and creating them.

Use DynamicDivs to create areas that can be customized on a page-by-page basis

Use html components and dynamic divs to build your page.

Build your page by adding components into dynamic divs

Websites

Create and modify files in the Solodev CMS system.

Managing files

Learn more about the various file types supported in Solodev CMS.

Supported file types

Group similar files with file groups

Upload a variety of files to the documents and website workspace.

Upload files from a local machine

Access a file's archive history and revert the file to its previous version.

Archive history

Learn more about managing Solodev Folders.

Managing folders

Learn more about leveraging modules to manage your content.

Managing your content with modules

Managing your content with modules part II

Content Management

Learn more about SEO basics and the most commonly used meta information properties in Solodev.

SEO basics overview

Learn more about managing meta data for Solodev pages.

Page meta data

Learn more about managing website meta data.

Website meta data

Add Alt tags to your images using the WYSIWYG or Code editor.

ALT tags

Learn more about Solodev marketing tools used to improve SEO.

Marketing Overview

Learn more about managing experiments and their entries.

Add/modify/delete experiments and their entries.

Scheduler overview

Add schedulers to your webpage & manage the publication of content via scheduler entries.

Managing scheduler entries

Forms overview

Marketing & SEO

A list of common actions and fields encountered by administrators  managing users.

Users overview

Adding, remove and reset user passwords in Solodev CMS.

Managing users

Managing user groups

Learn more about Solodev's permissions management system.

Permissions overview

Harness the power of granular permissions and assign users and groups to specific objects.

Assigning users/groups to objects

Manage project requirements for your websites and applications using Solodev Tasks.

Solodev Tasks

Best practices for managing users and groups in Solodev CMS.

Best practices for users and groups

Users & Groups

Learn more about managing your website's settings.

Website Settings

Managing 301 redirects

A high level overview of Solodev's Packages.

Packages overview

Create a package from your existing website to deploy to any Solodev installation.

Creating a package

Deploy packages to your Solodev installations.

Installing packages

Deleting a website

Learn more about Solodev's core scripts and the use cases for  fileparse.php.

fileparse.php

Add or remove domain level redirects within your website.

Managing domain redirects in Solodev

Advanced Development

Learn more about the RESTful features of the Solodev API.

RESTful features of the Solodev API

Solodev API overview

Generate API key pairs and use your key pairs to authorize API requests.

Creating and configuring API tokens

System API overview

Learn more about authorizing requests to the API Module and search across module endpoints

Module API overview

Solodev API

Shortcodes overview

Basic shortcodes

Learn more about shortcodes pertaining to users and user-related components in Solodev.

Shortcodes for users

Learn more about the shortcodes used for pages and sectionals.

Shortcodes for pages & sectionals

Learn more about shortcodes used for multi-functional, date-based elements called modules.

Shortcodes for modules

Miscellaneous shortcodes

Learn more about building custom shortcodes.

Building custom shortcodes

Shortcodes

Most frequently asked questions about Solodev CMS.

General FAQs

Billing FAQs

Technical FAQs

Send form submissions to a designated email address.

Add an email tickler

Learn how to add and manage entries for your image sliders.

Managing slider entries

Add a pdf, word, or other document files via the WYSIWYG editor.

Uploading a document file via the WYSIWYG editor

Learn more about uploading images via Solodev’s visual editor known as the WYSIWYG editor.

Uploading an image via the WYSIWYG editor

Learn more about creating an events module.

Creating an events module

Learn more about creating a category page.

Creating a category page

Customize module entry fields with your own forms.

How to customize module form entry fields

Creating a contact form

Create a career portal that attracts talent for your organization.

Creating a career module

Creating a news module

Create a team page to feature the members of your organization.

Creating a team module

Learn more about creating a landing pages

Creating a landing page module

Divide pages into components for multiple dynamic divs.

Splitting page content out into multiple DynamicDivs

Creating an intranet

Learn more about page template capabilities. Create page templates from existing pages.

Creating a page template

Creating an image gallery

Create and add tags to your module entries.

How do I create tags for modules?

Learn more about creating a collection of categories for your modules.

How do I create categories for modules?

Add a WYSIWYG toolbar to the backend of your custom modules.

How do I add a WYSIWYG toolbar to a textarea for a module form?

How do I customize Solodev themes and layouts?

Learn more about including web libraries such as jQuery, Bootstrap, JS and CSS scripts in Solodev CMS.

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