Mura 6 for Developers - Steve Withington
May 16, 2013
Mura 6 for Developers - Steve Withington
(As soon as the presentation started, Steve mentioned that the title was a bit misleading and it wasn't really a "for developers" session, but moreso to show people what's new in Mura 6, and just give a once-over of Mura in general, for those that hadn't used it yet. I was hoping for more developer-centric content, but was already parked up front and didn't want to disrupt everyone by leaving, so I stayed and watched the preso. Picked up a few bits of Mura 6-specific info I hadn't used yet, but I didn't take as many notes as I might have otherwise. Hopefully these are still helpful to others.)
Admin interface is now the Bootstrap theme
The "default" theme for front-end is now Bootstrap too.
(the old theme has been deleted.)
Font Awesome
vector-based icons
Less CSS framework integration
-- it's "dynamic css"
does all the things you wanted css todo
don't NEED to use it to use Mura. But Mura does use it (so it's there if you want to take advantage of it.)
can download Bootstrap themes, but many of them use Less too
go to lessCSS.org to learn about it
it needs to be compiled
Mura uses CFStatic for that compiling
-- takes your css and js
-- minifies and concatenates it
-- so you get ONE css file instead of 15 different ones
(also compiles your CoffeeScript, if you're using that.)
Back-end Admin
Dashboard
- snapshot of what's happening on the site
- if you're using Google Analytics, this may be redundant
- "recent content" pod, shows things that might need to be reviewed by me
Site Manager
2 views - hierarchical, and flat
6.1 added "Audit Trail" link to Site Manager
Not logged in? Use "escape - L" to log in FROM the front-end, so you can make edits right where you are without losing your place.
Naming convention idea for multiple sites in Mura, name them with "site-" so they all get grouped together in your directory:
site-intranet
site-salesportal
etc
config/settings.ini.cfm
indexfileinurls = 1
change to 0,that gets rid of the "index.cfm" in the URLs
Photo Gallery -- I really should be leveraging this more for the "music" sites I'm working on. Super easy to set up and start using.
Change Sets are now called "Content Staging"
it's "fancier" but does the same type of job as before.
WorkFlow--
Approval Chain Manager
can set up content that is "waiting for marketing group to approve it" before it will go live.
Coming next -- Comment manager. so I can approve multiple comments at 1 time, rather than having to do them 1 by 1.
(As soon as the presentation started, Steve mentioned that the title was a bit misleading and it wasn't really a "for developers" session, but moreso to show people what's new in Mura 6, and just give a once-over of Mura in general, for those that hadn't used it yet. I was hoping for more developer-centric content, but was already parked up front and didn't want to disrupt everyone by leaving, so I stayed and watched the preso. Picked up a few bits of Mura 6-specific info I hadn't used yet, but I didn't take as many notes as I might have otherwise. Hopefully these are still helpful to others.)
Admin interface is now the Bootstrap theme
The "default" theme for front-end is now Bootstrap too.
(the old theme has been deleted.)
Font Awesome
vector-based icons
Less CSS framework integration
-- it's "dynamic css"
does all the things you wanted css todo
don't NEED to use it to use Mura. But Mura does use it (so it's there if you want to take advantage of it.)
can download Bootstrap themes, but many of them use Less too
go to lessCSS.org to learn about it
it needs to be compiled
Mura uses CFStatic for that compiling
-- takes your css and js
-- minifies and concatenates it
-- so you get ONE css file instead of 15 different ones
(also compiles your CoffeeScript, if you're using that.)
Back-end Admin
Dashboard
- snapshot of what's happening on the site
- if you're using Google Analytics, this may be redundant
- "recent content" pod, shows things that might need to be reviewed by me
Site Manager
2 views - hierarchical, and flat
6.1 added "Audit Trail" link to Site Manager
Not logged in? Use "escape - L" to log in FROM the front-end, so you can make edits right where you are without losing your place.
Naming convention idea for multiple sites in Mura, name them with "site-" so they all get grouped together in your directory:
site-intranet
site-salesportal
etc
config/settings.ini.cfm
indexfileinurls = 1
change to 0,that gets rid of the "index.cfm" in the URLs
Photo Gallery -- I really should be leveraging this more for the "music" sites I'm working on. Super easy to set up and start using.
Change Sets are now called "Content Staging"
it's "fancier" but does the same type of job as before.
WorkFlow--
Approval Chain Manager
can set up content that is "waiting for marketing group to approve it" before it will go live.
Coming next -- Comment manager. so I can approve multiple comments at 1 time, rather than having to do them 1 by 1.