Introduction to GovCMS
Training Videos
Unit 1: Intro to the Admin Backend
Unit 2: More about GovCMS
UNIT 3: MANAGING CONTENT IN GOVCMS
UNIT 4: MANAGING CONTENT REVISIONS
UNIT 5: CONTENT MODERATION IN GOVCMS
UNIT 6: Files and media assets
UNIT 7: MANAGING URL ALIASES AND REDIRECTS
UNIT 8: META TAGS AND SEO
UNIT 9: USING TAXONOMY TO CATEGORIZE CONTENT AND MEDIA
UNIT 10: MANAGING SITE NAVIGATIONS AND BREADCRUMBS
UNIT 11: CAPTURING DATA WITH FORMS
UNIT 12: ADVANCED CONTENT EDITING
Appendix A - Glossary
About Salsa Digital
Content types overview
A GovCMS website is made up of different content types. You can view a list of the GovCMS content types that are available “out-of-the-box” in Content → Add content. Many of these content types are used across all GovCMS sites. Each content type has specific fields (properties and metadata) associated with it.
The standard GovCMS content types are:
- Blog Article
- Event
- FOI
- News and Media
- Standard Page
- Web form
Why use different content types?
Content types are a useful way to group similar content, with similar characteristics. It means people can talk about sets of content (e.g. events) and it’s also a way to set up a common template across a type. For example, events will always have a time, date and location and so the event content form contains these fields, whereas other types of content won’t include this information.
Content types are also used when setting display rules for the site, such as showing the three most recent blogs on the homepage.
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