Trouble grasping the pages

[nextgen]

Friends, i love the cms. Me being from the PHP-Nuke world and the dark ages for over 8 years. I am having issues trying to get the menu to show for the forums etc. I see the links that were put in place during install but none for the gallery, forum etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction i would be a happy soldier. (Not really a soldier) god bless those guys.

[JeremyBASS]

This is what helped me when I first came here and may you.. Think of the pages like real page files.. they are the files that get wrapped by the main template you set for it, and you put in module tags in both pages.. you have to add pages and those pages are what are in the menu... Hope that helps some.. cheers -jeremy

[Dr.CSS]

You have to go to Content > Pages then click the Add Content link to add/make new pages that you can name what you like and add things like the {News} tag to get things like news to show up, if you are using a new module you have installed read it's help as to what the tag should be and use it in the page...

Also reading all the default content helps explain how to use CMS Made Simple...

[nextgen]

I sure will friends and thank you. I thought the links to new modules were auto generated somehow. Do i need to manually add them in somewhere as well ? If so i just need to find what the addresses are for the forums etc so i can hard code them in.

[replytomk3]

Modules like Forum, etc are not installed by default. This is in contrast to other CMSes that come with extra baggage the second you install them (a large page with links to forum, chat, login, etc, etc)

[Dr.CSS]

Lets say you download the Album module...

Once installed, which you can do with the module manager, then go to Content > Photo Albums and you will see Add Albums link, click it to make an album, name album, add images, click save...

If you want to add it to an existing page click the pages name in Content > Pages or for new page click Add Content, in a content box, best done w/o tiny/wysiwyg turned on, add {cms_module module='album'} click submit...

Now you can go to view site and find that page and you will see a thumbnail that links to the full album, if you have more then one album the first page will have many thumb links to each one like here...

http://multiintech.com/galleries.html

[nextgen]

Wow, that helped so much my friend. I am finally making headway now and can make plans to do the live change over. Thank you so much. I am going to copy and paste the info and save it as it will most likely be my best friend for the next 2 weeks or so.