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Welcome to the Try Orchard! demo site!

This is a walkthrough trip which demonstrates you some basic Orchard settings.

Important informations about this trip:

If you close a tip window the trip ends.
Always read the instructions.
If you want to go to the next tip, click on the "Next" button, otherwise the trip ends.
Pro tip: if you have a "Next" button, always click on it.
Do things only if the trip tells so, otherwise you won't get the next instruction.
To restart the trip open the demo site in another window/tab.

This trip and demo site is maintained by Lombiq for the Orchard community.

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You can sign in here with admin/password. After logging in the link to the Dashboard will be shown here.

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Let's log in!

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Remember: use admin/password to log in.

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At the bottom of the page the "Dashboard" link will lead you to the admin site.

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Let's go to the admin site!

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Creating a new page.

Now we'll show you how to create a new page.

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You can create a new page here.

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Let's create a new page!

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This will be the title of the new page. By default this will be shown before the content (layout) of the page.

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Type here the page's content. This is a rich text editor, so you have some basic formatting options like creating lists, inserting media. But you can edit the HTML output too.

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This button will save and publish the page.

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If you only want to save the page, but not publish it, click this button. This will create a draft that you can publish later.

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Now create a page and publish it!

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Good job, your page is created!

Now we'll show you how to create menu items and how to create an item for this page.

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Click here to manage menus!

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Here you can select the menu that you want to edit.

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Here you can add new a menu.

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These are the existing menu items.

Managing menu items is very easy:

With drag & drop you can change the order (by dragging vertically) and create multi-level menus (by dragging items horizontally).
Click Edit to edit them.
And click Delete to remove them.

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On this panel you can add new menu entries.

The most important options are:

Content Menu Item: with this you can easily pick from existing content items like pages, blogs or anything else.
Custom Link: this is good for adding external links e.g.: https://lombiq.com/ (this makes your site much cooler ;)).
Html Menu Item: any custom HTML code.
The others are more advanced (but they are really good features).

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Now create a menu entry for your page!

Select the "Main menu", from the menu selector.
Add a Content Menu Item (click on the "Add" button).

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This is the title of the menu item.

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This is The Ultimate Content Item Picker. With this you can select any content item.

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Now create a menu item for your page!

Type a name.
Pick your page.
Hit save.
So easy and cool! :)

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Good job, your page is available from the menu!

Creating a new blog.

Now we'll show you how to create a new blog.

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You can create a new blog here.

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Let's create a new blog!

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This will be the title of the new blog. By default this will be shown before the list of blog posts.

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This is just a short description.

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With this you can set the maximum number of posts per page.

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If you want to show your blog's link on a menu, here you can set it (like before on the page's editor) and the menu item's title too.

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Finally, save your new blog.

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Now create your blog with a menu entry on the "Main menu" (this is the menu at the top of the site).

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Good job, your blog is ready to share your thoughts!

Now we'll show you how to create blog posts.

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You can

create a

new blog

post here.

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Let's create a new blog post!

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This is the title of your new blog post. This will be shown in the blog's blog post list and at the top of the post.

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This is a rich editor too. Type your smart surroundings here.

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Here you can insert an image, this button will show you a super cool image organizer tool (aka. Media Library), where you can upload, edit and organize your images. (There are some useful extensions to this library under Modules.)

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You can allow commenting here.

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Now let's create a test post, allow commenting and publish it!

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Commenting on blog posts.

Good job!

Now we'll show you how to comment under a post.

First go to the homepage!

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This link will lead you to the homepage.

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In the Main menu, click on the blog you just created.
Select a blog post.
Under the post type your comment and send it!
When the comment appears go back to the admin site!

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Good job!

Now let's do some comment moderation.

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Click here to manage comments.

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Here you can manage comments:

approval/unapproval,
moderation,
and removal.

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You can also manage multiple comments together, tick checkboxes below to select comments, then choose an action here to apply it to the selected comments.

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Now you can create pages, blogs, posts and moderate comments! Let us show you some user management too.

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User management.

Now we'll show you how to manage users.

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Click here to manage users.

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By default we have only one user, the admin user created when setting up the site. Let's create another one.

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Click here to

create a user.

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You can set the name, e-mail and password here.

Then you can give the user various roles.

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Here you can manage the site settings.

Under this menu there is a "Users" submenu as well, where you can manage how users can create accounts.

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Now let's click on the "Users" submenu under the "Settings" menu!

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Here you can allow users to create new accounts on the site.

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With this you can enforce the verification of e-mail addresses.

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And with this you can enable manual approval, so freshly registered users won't be able to log in without your approval.

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Now we know enough to create and manage a site with a blog and its users.

Let's see some other useful features quickly!

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You can manage which features are enabled for your site here.

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You can change the look and feel of the site here.

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You can manage content items, like pages, projections and other kinds here.

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Thank you for your attention!

If you want to learn more about Orchard check out the official Documentation, Orchard Beginner and Orchard Dojo.

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