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Selecting a Page to Edit

Click on the drop-down button, it is located on top-right.

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#Click on the Dropdown button to select a page

Please note that not every page can be edited using the Layout Editor. If you do not see the page that you want to modify in the “Editing” list then you will most likely have to modify some of the code to alter its content.

Edit a Page Info

Pressing on Edit Page Info button located at top-right will open a new window, in this window, it allows you to edit page info

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#Edit Page Info window.

  1. Page Name: The name that will show up in the drop-down list when you select a page to edit. This name is purely for your own reference for use in the Layout Editor.
  2. Page Title: The title that will be displayed to users at Front-End.
  3. Page URL: This field is where you enter the last part of the URL in order to link directory to this new page. You can reference the page by going to {your domain}/pages/[Page URL]. For example, the Page URL in the screenshot is “Review-of-the-Day”. If my domain was http://www.mysite.com then to access this page I created, I would go to http://www.mysite.com/pages/Review-of-the-Day
  4. Page Description (meta tag): The page description should be a brief, concise description of this page. Include any keywords or phrases that you want to appear in search engine listings. This will be the basis for your HTML “meta” description tag. There are two places where you can add data for your “meta” description tag. The site description found on the General Settings page will be on every page on your website under the “meta” description tag. There is also this page description which will give just this page its own “meta” description tags which will be in addition to this site description. Please know that a good page description will increase SEO.
  5. Page Keywords (meta tag): Provide some keywords (separated by commas) that describe this new page. These will be the default keywords that appear in the HTML “meta” tag in your page header. Enter the most relevant keywords you can think of to help this page’s search engine rankings. There are two places where you can add data for your “meta” description tag. The site description found on the General Settings page will be on every page on your website under the “meta” description tag. There is also this page description which will give just this page its own “meta” description tags which will be in addition to the site keywords. Also know well thought out keyword will also help your SEO.

Creating a New Page

To create a new page, click on “Create New Page” located at the top left.

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#Create New Page

With this function, a guideline is existing at https://www.moosocial.com/wiki/doku.php?id=admin_dashboard:site_manager:pages_manager

Please take a view for creating pages.

Columns Template

Decide the overall layout by deciding how many columns you want to have on this page by clicking on the “Edit Columns” button. Choose a template by clicking on the template that fits your page best. The horizontal blocks on the top and the bottom represent the Site Header page and the Site Footer page, which do not need to be displayed.

Find Edit Columns button at top-right, pressing on it and a new window will pop-up,

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#Columns Layouts Selection

With many choices for your layout.


**II. Changing the Content on Your Page**

Adding Content to Your Page

Click and drag the “blocks” to arrange the content you want on each page. Drag blocks from the “Available Blocks” area into the “Page Block Placement” area to add them from your page.

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#Drag a block from Available Blocks to your page columns for a more control over what is displayed use an “HTML Block” if you want to add your own custom HTML code or other commonly available code snippets.

NOTE:** All blocks cannot be used on all page. For instance, the blocks that begin with “Profile” can generally only be used on the Profile pages (Member Profile, Group profile, etc.). Please see the following article for a list of Which Widgets are Allowed on Which Pages.

Removing Content from Your Page

You can drag blocks from the “Page Block Placement” area into the “Available Blocks” area to remove them from your page or click on the black “x” in the block you want to remove.

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#Press on X to remove.

Editing a Content Block

Click on the “edit” on the content block to change any of the parameters that this content block may allow you to modify.
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#Click on the pencil button to begin modifying.This block allows you to edit the “title”. The title will display in bold print right above this content block on the page where you are placing it. It is also let you modify a number of items to show, default = 10.

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#Editing Contents Parameters

Saving Your Changes

Click on the “Save Changes” button on the blue bar to save all the changes you have made to the layout.

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Creating Static Pages

At pages Manager/General click on Create New Page button located above Pages List.

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#Press on Create New Page button and begin.

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#1 Fill in your Page’s title.

#2 Fill in your Page’s alias

#3 Content of your page

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#4 Fill in your Page’s Description

#5 Fill in your Page’s keywords

#6 Allow Comments, check to enable users right to comment on this page.

#7 Blocks inherit, if you want this page to be displayed with all the blocks & widgets like another page, select any of its pages lists.

#8 Permission for user roles, this setting will decide user roles to access your page.

When you’re done, just click on Save Page and receive a message like this:

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#Page saved.

Return to Pages Manager and see your newly created page:

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#Your new created page.

Now take a look at your newly created page at Front End:

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#Your new created page.

II/How to add New Page to your menu:

After a page is created, you can find it at Menu Manager:

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#1 Select page you created

#2 Add to Menu button.

Then you must Save Menu to make it effective.

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#3 Press on Save Menu button.

Then your Main Menu will look like:6281d14458d152819854276bfe0748fb.jpge:

#Your page has been added to your menu.

Translating mooSocial

1. Download Existing Language pack and install it into your mooSocial site

  • Go to https://moosocial.oneskyapp.com/collaboration/
  • Download the language you want to use for your site. For example, you downloaded French language.
  • The system will send you a download link. Click on the link inside the email to download your selected language pack.
  • Extract the download file, you will see the following folders: cake.po, default.po, mail.po, permission.po and setting.po.
  • Create a new folder for your language pack. For French, you should name the folder as “fra”, for other languages, please refer here to know how to name the folder https://community.moosocial.com/topics/view/1314/codes-for-the-representation-of-names-of-languages . Create a subfolder name “LC_MESSAGES” inside “fra” folder.
  • Open cake.po folder, rename the file inside this folder to cake.po, open default.po and rename the find inside this folder to default.po….do the same for all above folders. After all files have been renamed, please copy all files into the “LC_MESSAGES” folder that you create above. Now, you have a language pack for French language and it’s ready for install.
  • Install the language package you just created above follow the installation guide here. https://moosocial.com/wiki/doku.php?id=admin_dashboard:site_manager:languages_manager
  • Clear global cache.

2. Download Existing Language pack and install it for an installed plugin

  • Go to http://translate.moosocial.com/collaboration
  • Find the plugin you want to download the language package. Download the language you want to use for your site. For example, you downloaded French language for ads plugin.
  • The system will send you a download link. Click on the link inside the email to download your selected language pack.
  • You will get the fr.po file.
  • Create a new folder for your language pack. For French, you should name the folder as “fra”, for other languages, please refer here to know how to name the folder https://community.moosocial.com/topics/view/1314/codes-for-the-representation-of-names-of-languages . Create a subfolder name “LC_MESSAGES” inside “fra” folder.
  • Rename the fr.po to pluginname.po, for example ads.po, then copy ads.po file into the “LC_MESSAGES” folder that you create above. Now, you have a language pack for French language and it’s ready for install.
  • Copy the “fra” folder into installed folder of ads plugin to install, a path will be ….app\Plugin\Ads\Locale
  • Clear global cache

3.  Join to translate existing Language pack

  • Go to https://moosocial.oneskyapp.com/collaboration/
  • Sign up a new account
  • Select language you want to translate and then translate the not finished language phrases
  • When the language is 100% translated, download and follow the steps above to install it on your site.
  • Importance: contact us if language pack you wanted to translate is not there in our translation tool, we will add so that you can translate.

Free free to contact us if you have any questions.

Install New Theme

1/ When you already had the plugin package, extract file template (in zip) to a folder and upload “app” folder and their contents to your site (allow overwrite old files)

Example, we added ‘mooBuk’ as new theme

2/ Go to Admin Dashboard/Site Manager/Theme Manager/Not Installed Theme, find the ‘mooBuk’ theme and press Install button:

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3/ After installation, there will be a Message:

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#Installation successful.

4/ Front-end, users can see new theme has been added:

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#New theme has been added.

Installing New Module

1/ When you already had the plugin package, extract file template (in zip) to a folder and upload “app” folder and their contents to your site (allow overwrite old files)

Example, we added ‘Recipe’ as new plugin.

2/ Then go to Admin Dashboard/Plugins Manager/Manager/Not Installed Plugins, find ‘Recipe’ plugin and press on Install button to begin installation.

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3/ The progress is done, you can see your new installed plugin at Plugins List.

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4/ Go to Admin Home –> Clear Global Caches

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