alphamale Posted February 25, 2021 Posted February 25, 2021 (edited) Hi, Being somebody that isn't very clued up on html and css, could somebody offer any advice or help to understanding pages/database etc? I have bought pages. I have seen SuperGrid by Opentype but been told that I need a good understanding of databases etc to be able to make it work. I don't. I have messed around with it but can't seem to get it to work. What I want to achieve... Home page/landing page that has articles. The feed I want to come from a forum called "News & Rumours" so I can add articles in the main forum but when people for the first time or regularly visit the website, they can see the articles , which may encourage them to register or contribute. My understanding is that I need to add a page, create a database (is this the database of the articles?), then add a block to show the content? Really struggling to get my head around it. Off work this week and won't be getting another break for 3 months. Really want to try and get this sorted asap. Thanks for any advice or help that you may offer 🙂 Edited February 25, 2021 by alphamale
Management Matt Posted February 25, 2021 Management Posted February 25, 2021 I'm doing the video right now!
Management Matt Posted February 25, 2021 Management Posted February 25, 2021 Uploading, so should be ready in about ~15 mins.
Management Matt Posted February 25, 2021 Management Posted February 25, 2021 It's still going, but I'll drop the link here - check back in 10 if the video hasn't uploaded. It shows the following: - Creating a page for the database - Creating a database, and adding it to the page - Creating a page for your landing page - Adding drag and drop elements to show the streams.
alphamale Posted February 25, 2021 Author Posted February 25, 2021 Brill. Thanks for the help 🙂 Matt 1
alphamale Posted February 25, 2021 Author Posted February 25, 2021 (edited) Makes much more sense now thanks. Only thing I can't fathom is that I have 2 pages. 1 to actually write the content, lets call it A and the second page which shows the feed , lets call it B, which I want as the landing page. How do I hide A from members as there's no point in them seeing that as they wont be creating news articles . Also will that affect them being able to read B? Finally I can go into Settings/Localisation/Languages/Translation Tools/Quick Translating and enable that so I can change "News Articles" to "Home" but how do I get it that it goes to that when someone loads the website and the menu across the top shows HOME / FORUMS / CALENDAR etc etc? Don't want to take any more of your time @Matt , so anybody else know how I can achieve this? Thanks Matt Edited February 25, 2021 by alphamale
Morrigan Posted February 26, 2021 Posted February 26, 2021 Make sure only the people that you want access to submit/edit have the "Add/edit" permissions. Anyone that doesn't will never be able to see the form to submit. They should all be the same page but different parts/permissions of it that come from the database permissions.
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