About the Admin Panel

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The Manual

The most important page

The most important page is the /admin page. It is used to access log-in page and the Admin Panel page.

Admin Panel sub-sections

Create a new category

Name - displayed name.
Description - not used to anything important. It can be threated as a note about the category use.
Visibility - is the category visible in the main menu or not.
Position - position in the main menu.

Manage categories

It displays all categoies, visible and invisible. If an admin has a proper role (permissions) then it can edit or delete categories. Deleting a category doesn’t delete articles in that category.

Create a new article

Title - the article title.
Author - it is bugged now. It shouldn’;’t be possible to choose an author that doesn’t belong to you.
Content - it should be wrote in Markdown language.
Categories - each article can belong to zero, one or many categories.

Articles are not published automatically after saving. They needs to be published manually.

Articles can be in one of the two states: published or unpublished (never published or withdrawn). Not logged users can see only published articles.

Manage articles

Pretty same as “Manage categories” but about articles.

My account options

Here you can change your email or password. It is possible to delete your account too.

Logout

Sign out. You don’t have to logout just for checking how the regular users see the site. The admin see the regular pages (without /admin/ in the address) same as not logged user. The only difference is the admin footer at the very bottom.

All accounts

It shows a list of admins and action you can make on them besed on your permissions.

Manage authors

Same as “All acounts” but about authors. Each admin should have one or more authors. Each author can have only one admin.

Manage styles

Here you can create, edit, activate and delete stylesheets. Those stylesheets are css documents that changes the look of the site.

The first default stylesheet can’t be edited nor deleted.

Site settings

Here are just HTML meta tags.

Title - the HTML document title. It shows itself on the browser’s tab.
Author - the HTML document author. It has no important usage.
Keywords - it has no important usage.
Description - some search engines can show this text as the site description.

Here you can create, edit and delete things that are displayed above the main menu. It should be writen in Markdown language. Styling is made in Manage styles subsection.

Same as “Page header” but for the page footer.

Web Dev Notes

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