vB CMS Capabilities

[KGodel]

Can you allow for multiple sections to be selected? It seems to be a single selection, but I could perhaps edit it a bit to allow for multiple sections.

Edit: I did what you said for the homepage and nothing is appearing. I had to allow for subsections but that added all subsections.

[HM666]

Originally Posted by KGodel

Can you allow for multiple sections to be selected? It seems to be a single selection, but I could perhaps edit it a bit to allow for multiple sections.

Edit: I did what you said for the homepage and nothing is appearing. I had to allow for subsections but that added all subsections.

Make sure its published and you have permission to view it. You can publish it through the AdminCP as well as on the page itself. On the page just click the pencil icon and edit like you would edit it for anything else. In the AdminCP go to vBulletin CMS>Section Manager and publish there if you cannot see it on the page.

On the home page it will add all subsections if you allow for all subsections on there. It will add everything. What do you need on the home page exactly?

[AndrewSimm]

The CMS has a lot of capability but you really have to play with it. On my site I have 5 sections with 4 of them showing on the home page. I have about 400 categories. When one of my staff writers writes about a group of football players they select category that corresponds to their name. My section is Football and categories is the number of the player it is about. I then have an widget with 3 tabs where users can select what sport they want to read about and on the players profile I have a stream that shows the latest news about them.

My point being is you really need to decide how you want to organize your content and how it will grow. It makes it a lot easier to set it up right at first rather than going back and change a bunch of sections and categories. HM666 answered your questions spot on but feel free to ask any more. Here is my CMS so let me know if you have any questions on how I did things. https://www.canesinsight.com

[KGodel]

So, I guess I'll post here how I want things to be organized and go from there:

The menu I will have under the articles or home tab, whatever it becomes, will be this:

Home
Information*
>About Us
>Rules & Policies
>Staff
>Structure
>Activity Requirements
>Justice
Social
>TeamSpeak3
>Skype
>Steam
Media*
>Game Reviews
>Interviews
Newsletters
Legal*
>Privacy Policy
>Terms of Service
>Disclaimer

Items without a (>) are top level menu items. Items with a * are menus that I do not want to have corresponding pages, just be a menu item with drop-down links.

Everything is a static page except Home, Game Reviews, Interviews, and Newsletters.

Home should show clan news, game reviews, and interviews. Newsletters will have the collection of newsletters. You can guess what goes on the media pages.

So what I am left with is wondering how to make a section structure where the breadcrumbs will be accurate but where I will NOT have to make pages for the menu items I don't want pages for.

[HM666]

Originally Posted by KGodel

So, I guess I'll post here how I want things to be organized and go from there:

The menu I will have under the articles or home tab, whatever it becomes, will be this:

Home
Information*
>About Us
>Rules & Policies
>Staff
>Structure
>Activity Requirements
>Justice
Social
>TeamSpeak3
>Skype
>Steam
Media*
>Game Reviews
>Interviews
Newsletters
Legal*
>Privacy Policy
>Terms of Service
>Disclaimer

Items without a (>) are top level menu items. Items with a * are menus that I do not want to have corresponding pages, just be a menu item with drop-down links.

Everything is a static page except Home, Game Reviews, Interviews, and Newsletters.

Home should show clan news, game reviews, and interviews. Newsletters will have the collection of newsletters. You can guess what goes on the media pages.

So what I am left with is wondering how to make a section structure where the breadcrumbs will be accurate but where I will NOT have to make pages for the menu items I don't want pages for.

The items with the * would that link be leading to a CMS article, certain forum, or a thread or where exactly would the link go? If those are just the menu then you can add menu links in the Navigation under the options. There you can add extra sub links and what have you.

You cannot pick the exact sections for the home page out of the box. Its all or nothing. That is how its setup. So in order to accomplish just having certain sections show on the front page you would need some extra coding to get that to work.

You do not have to make pages for any of them if you do not want to. Like for instance, if you just want the interviews to be shown on the interviews page you can just set that section to include the subsections and do not create a page. It will then just show all the interviews in order of when they were posted on the part for the interviews.

[KGodel]

Yea, the * items I was going to do through the navigation manager, I just want to make sure the breadcrumbs are correct. I don't want the pages leading to an "Information" section that I don't want to have a page. My guess is that I will have to make each page a sub-section of home so that the breadcrumbs go Home >> Current Page

[HM666]

Originally Posted by KGodel

My guess is that I will have to make each page a sub-section of home so that the breadcrumbs go Home >> Current Page

Actually that is pretty much automatic. The main section that you begin with your home page is the root section so to speak so all other sections automatically are subsections of that even if you make same level sections in the admincp. The breadcrumbs lead properly in this way. I have a screen shot of my CMS sections. I installed the default information because this is my development board. So you can clearly see that "The Front Page" is the main page and the main root section. So everything breadcrumbs from that and should be ok no matter what section you put the subsection under.

[KGodel]

I figured out my home-page issue. There is a list of pages/articles at the bottom and I have to give each one a display order before it will appear. That's a lot of editing, but hopefully they will automatically be given display orders when I add them.

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[HM666]

Yeah you can choose which ones show in the navbar menu. The navbar menu is different from the breadcrumbs though.

[KGodel]

I meant the bottom part, "Display Content from Sub Sections"