hi there,

I'm trying to use couch cms for my project, installation was successful although when I get to the step that mentions to open the about.php page I get error 404, my files structure is different as I'm trying to use my won theme, thought this might be a problem however it shouldn't be according to documentation.

my site url: www.designdiverso.com/cms my theme: wwwldesigndiverso.com

Please I need help asap

[KK]

Hello and welcome, @diverso

Would it be possible for you to get me FTP (and Couch) access to your site?
I'll need to take a look at the problem first-hand to know what could be going wrong.

Thanks

[KK]

Thanks for the creds.

I had a look at the site and the problem was that you had missed the crucial step of changing the extension of 'about.html' to make it 'about.php'.

I did that and then accessed http://www.designdiverso.com/about.php (while being logged-in as super-admin).

The template now appears in the admini-panel.

Hope this helps.

thank you truly helpful indeed, now it works somehow, however I'm having hard times setting up the blog page, my theme looks different, could be easier but I've multiple images and some links, now the content appears in the back end for edit, issue is that in the front end neither the content nor the image seem to show up yet, I've try to stick to the instructions as much as possible, I've only changed the tag name from "blog" to "thoughts" which the name of my page
Would you mind taking a look at it? I need help with this

This is the url for the page http://www.designdiverso.com/thoughts.php

[KK]

I had a look, diverso.

Might I suggest one thing?
I think you'll find the going much easier if you could first try out our tutorial site (http://www.couchcms.com/docs/tutorials/portfolio-site/).

Please take the time to actually work through the sample site and, I'm sure, it'll make the core concepts much clearer to you.

I'll tell you here what exactly is the problem with your current page but, honestly, it is a very basic concept of Couch that you are missing -

You have several 'articles' (<article class="post">..</article>) in the static design of your template. To make it dynamic, isolate just one article -

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<article class="post">
    <header class="news-header">
    <a href="strategy/15-digital-marketing-trends-predictions-for-20151.1.html">
        <img class="listing" <img class="thumb" src="img.jpg" alt=""/>
    </a>
    </header>

    <h1><a href="strategy/15-digital-marketing-trends-predictions-for-20151.1.html">15 Digital Marketing Trends &amp; Predictions for 2015</a></h1>

    blah blah

    <p><a href="strategy/15-digital-marketing-trends-predictions-for-20151.1.html" class="btn black">Read Article</a></p>
</article>

and then wrap it around with a cms:pages tag and substitute variables for the static content as follows

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<cms:pages masterpage='thoughts.php'>
    <article class="post">
        <header class="news-header">
        <a href="<cms:show k_page_link />">
            <img class="listing" <img class="thumb" src="<cms:show thoughts_image />" alt=""/>
        </a>
        </header>

        <h1><a href="<cms:show k_page_link />"><cms:show k_page_title /></a></h1>

        <cms:show blog_content />

        <p><a href="<cms:show k_page_link />" class="btn black">Read Article</a></p>
    </article>
</cms:pages>

Now when you visit thoughts.php, you'll see a listing of all the cloned pages you've created in the admin panel.

When you click on 'Read article', you won't see a single post though as that would require handling 'views'. This is all amply covered in the tutorial so please consult that for details.

Hope it helps.

thanks for your help, but it doesn't work for me, I've used those tags listed in your response however only the title is showing up, content and image are still missing.
If I buy the license can you help me more sorting this out at least blog and portfolio pages?
Those seems the trickier ones, my time is really limited here and I need this to work ASAP

[KK]

Hi,

So can I assume that you hadn't had the time to go through the tutorial, right?

honestly I'm going through the tutorial and I find it rather difficult to follow, for instance the output mentioned in there for the first part of the blog page implementation doesn't really correspond to what I came up with and I followed step by step, meaning there's either a problem in what I'm doing or in the tutorial itself, can you provide me with further assistance?
this would be truly appreciated, on a side note the concept of "loop" it's not foreign to me, I've developed few jekyll sites in the past but even though I didn't have any experience with ruby technologies it seemed a little easier to follow for me
In conclusion like I mentioned earlier my time is really limited and could truly use a hand for this
Can you help more if I purchase the license?

is it possible to get some help building these two pages? get a reply at least? truly appreciated

[KK]

Hi diverso,

I had PMed you a day back. Please check your inbox.