Intermediate content management

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  • Taxonomies
  • Widgets in Layers
    • Layers and layer rules, zones (theme anatomy)
    • Adding new supported zones
    • When to add widgets to content items (differences between Bag Part, Flow Part, Widgets List Part) and when to layers
    • Demo: creating a new layer and an Html Widget
    • Demo: creating a new content type with the Widget stereotype, add that to a Zone
    • Exercise: creating NotTheHomepage layer and an Html Widget in the Footer zone in that layer
  • Navigation
    • Creating and editing a menu
    • Adding and editing Link Menu Items and Content Menu Items
    • Editing link hierarchy
    • Comparison with Admin Menus
    • Exercise: creating a menu with all kinds of items
  • Media management
    • Managing media with Media Library
    • Inserting images into text fields
    • For this, prepare suitable files. Pictures from the Wikipedia Cat article are included in the Attachments folder.

Time requirement: 1h 0m

Dependencies: Basic site management

Parent topic: Core concepts and basic usage

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