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Essential Knowledge for GetSimple Administrators

Folder-Structure of GetSimple

These are the most important directories:

  • mydomain.tld/path-to-get-simple/admin - log in here to edit content, add themes etc.
  • mydomain.tld/path-to-get-simple/admin/lang - upload the language files which you need here. You will find translations in the EXTEND section
  • mydomain.tld/path-to-get-simple/data - here the user-generated data is stored.
  • mydomain.tld/path-to-get-simple/data/uploads - this is where you upload files either directly using the 'files-page' or uploading files with any FTP-program
  • mydomain.tld/path-to-get-simple/plugins - here you upload plugins
  • mydomain.tld/path-to-get-simple/theme - here you upload themes which you want to use in GetSimple, each theme in it's own subdirectory

Page Names, Titles and Slugs

A page in GetSimple has

  • A Page Title which is normally displayed at the top of the page itself.
  • A 'Menu Text' which is a normally short name for display in the site Navigation Links
  • A 'slug' which is the text used in the page url and also the filename of the xml file which stores the page data.
  • An html title as defined in the head section of the page's html. It might be the same as the Page Title or defined by the Custom Title plugin.

They might be all the same and they might be all different.

Some Definitions

  • The Following might be unfamiliar terms:
    • File Permissions and chmod: On a Linux Server 'permissions' are set for files and folders to control who can read , write, and execute them. Chmod (Change Mode)is the command to alter those permissions.
    • htaccess: An .htaccess (hypertext access) file is a configuration file used by apache servers to control access to files and directories. The file is found in the directories it applies to.
    • Themes: The theme is the set of files which control the look and layout of a GetSimple site. A Wordpress term.
    • Plugins: Plugins contain additional code for extra functionality. Another Wordpress term.

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