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00:07 so total CMS has a bunch of other stacks that we haven't even touched based upon
00:13 yet right um so a lot of them are pretty
00:19 simplest it's pretty simple right there they're not rocket science some of them are really really cool so let's go over
00:27 those right now um I'm just kind of I'm gonna go through these pretty quickly so we can get into blog because blog has some really meaty
00:33 cool stuff going on okay um video pretty straightforward
00:38 right the video stack you give it an ID placeholder essentially what you can do
00:44 is you can type in a YouTube URL venue URL Wistia URL okay and it will display
00:52 that video wherever you want on the content side okay um what I'm gonna do
00:58 is here I'm just gonna write here let's just do this Deline do is we're gonna do
01:09 video and another stack that we're gonna show right now is do two at once I'm
01:15 gonna do toggle okay so the toggle stack this allows you to toggle on and off
01:23 parts of your page pretty simple right okay so here we can save a video here I
01:30 can toggle things on and off pretty simple so let's go in the content side
01:36 let's go ahead and add in the content
01:42 toggle and actually what we're gonna do
01:48 is I'm gonna toggle on and off an entire video so we'll do a a demo of both of
01:55 these things all at the same time oops air content side I put cargo stack yes
02:08 any video video okay these tacks are pretty simple on the on
02:15 the content side for the video stack you put in the CMS ID you can customize the player a little bit you want auto play
02:21 do you want to loop do you want to you know the player color things of that nature right and the toggle is even less
02:26 settings right you put in the the CMS ID and then do you want you know show basically when the toggle is on show
02:35 this when it's off shows something else right so you can do that kind of an if-else logic so right now the video
02:43 will be displayed when this toggle is on okay so we're kind of doing two things all at once so right now let's go to the
02:52 admin page let's actually save a video now video is very similar to the tech
02:59 side where if there is no video URL nothing will be displayed right so let's
03:05 go ahead and just save in a YouTube URL there we go there's a YouTube video just
03:11 gonna save that and let's go ahead and toggle that on okay now chances are in
03:17 the admin area you're gonna want to have some sort of label or description right eye on purpose I've made all the CMS
03:23 areas very generic right because I want I want to give you the user the ability
03:29 to add labels or however you want to style the admin area okay so they are
03:35 done and made generic on purpose here I've saved the video URL and I've
03:41 toggled it on okay now if I go ahead and just preview the homepage we have the
03:51 video right okay so if I go back I'll let's say I want to just toggle that
03:57 video off right and this is a YouTube video I can play it I won't right now but um it does display the video okay um
04:03 if I go back to my admin page
04:09 okay we'll see that the toggle is on if I go ahead and toggle that off okay and
04:15 then go back to the homepage of the content side will see that that entire
04:24 area now is gone right so that's a great way of toggling off you can do entire
04:31 layouts right maybe you want to toggle on a holiday special thing or um I know
04:38 the power users of total CMS like they love toggle okay because you can do some
04:45 pretty cool stuff it gives your clients a lot of control of you know maybe you set up three or four different content
04:50 areas and they can toggle all those on and off whether based on whether and I want to display content in there right
04:56 so um I've seen people do some pretty crazy stuff with toggle that gives a lot
05:01 of control to the end user so a lot of stuff can be done with toggle it's pretty cool video is flash based isn't
05:10 flash soon to be redundant well this is using YouTube's html5 player so it's not
05:16 flash because I don't even have flash allowed on my Safari so someone asked if
05:21 there was flash um this uses the html5 player from YouTube and Vimeo and Wistia
05:27 so nope there isn't flash it's html5 video um okay share screen
05:43 I know I did that really quick but video and toggle are pretty simple right you put in a Vimeo or YouTube URL magically
05:50 shows up on the content side toggle you can talk toggle on and off anything that's inside the toggle content stack
05:57 cool stuff okay next up let's look at
06:05 ratings ratings and what else is here oh
06:14 we haven't even the files and depots yet okay we got files and depots to do
06:20 okay so we got ratings feeds got it
06:28 there's datastore
06:38 Oh see you look even me I didn't have those added to the group I don't think
06:43 so there it is was that there before I
06:48 don't know maybe I was just blind to me okay so we got data store Depot's files
06:55 feeds ratings left oh boy man okay um
07:01 ratings ratings are pretty cool okay they allow many different things that
07:07 you can do with ratings okay on the admin side and you can kind of use them
07:13 on many different ways so you can do rating you can do type which is like
07:19 more of a like okay you can do stars okay you can and then you can do a kind
07:25 of a manual you can define the maximum number of ratings okay so you could say you know if you want to ten a ten base
07:31 star rating and you can okay the default is a three star rating okay oh no max rating is ten my bad
07:40 so if we wanted to do a five star rating system we could do that sets we can do
07:45 stars you can do you can do more than just stars right give you circles you can do batteries you can do hearts you
07:52 do all kinds of different stuff okay alignment and then these are a lot of the icon sizes okay so on the admin side
08:01 though basically what this is is just it's just a way of informing you what
08:08 users have rated on the the content side so on in this instance the admin stack
08:14 for ratings is purely a informational tool okay because the real power of the
08:21 rating stack is on the content side so on the content side I'm gonna go ahead
08:26 and add a rating stack to this page I'm
08:32 just gonna delete that toggle okay we're gonna add a rating stack at it right
08:40 sure why not okay
08:46 so here I can do a let's do a ratings a star based system maximum of 5 stars we
08:55 can preview a rating a 3.5 just the preview that we have here we'll use stars the CMS idea is that and then
09:02 these are just all styles so icons eyes colors you know label size all kinds of
09:08 stuff right and then you can also display the totals so you can have the
09:15 totals on the left hide them you can add them on the right okay so you can say how many total ratings are there okay so
09:24 if we go ahead and preview this okay
09:30 we'll see that here what I can do is I set my default rating to be average of 3.5 okay so let's go ahead and let's say
09:37 I want to set this to four stars so I'm go ahead and click on that okay and it
09:43 remembers that now it no longer says three point five it says four stars okay now if I if I select the same star
09:50 rating again it will unselect it right but if I preview or if i refresh this page it'll remember my star rating oh it
09:57 should I was because I clicked it again it unremembered it oh man no five stars
10:07 let's look at the admin side I haven't played with ratings in a long time
10:22 oops right but where to put it let's see
10:40 if we refresh this there should be a ratings
10:53 Oh do ratings let's publish this I think I made it so that's right I made it so
11:00 ratings actually totally forgot about this ratings do not work inside rapidweaver um on purpose i planned it
11:07 that way so that you can't gain the reigning system by just like clicking and rating locally um it has to be on a
11:14 published page um totally forgot about that makes sense now okay so here now
11:24 I'm on the content side this is what I would expected we have zero stars right now I click four stars okay
11:32 it submits that to the CMS and if we want to see kind of what's going on in the CMS we should now see ratings okay
11:39 and we have our total CMS there and it if we open that it tells us how many
11:45 it's kind of a little small little database that tells us how many scores we have and whatnot
11:50 okay so if we go back to Safari and then
11:56 we go back to our admin area it should
12:01 show a spoon it shows us here that we have one four star rating okay so this
12:08 is a great way on you know on the content side to show you know how many ratings a start to allow customers to
12:14 rate items and then you can see the number of star ratings inside the admin
12:20 area right so here again it's the the saving of the content is done on the
12:25 content side and the displaying of the information is done on the admin side right by design so that's really cool
12:32 you can also do things on the content side where you can dis display the
12:37 current star rating as like a read-only um thing right so if I go back to the
12:43 content page I can say read-only okay and if I were to preview that what it
12:50 would do is it wouldn't allow me to actually rate anything it just purely displays the current rating okay again
12:59 in inside rapidweaver it's displaying a static rating information right because
13:04 it doesn't allow you to change it within rapidweaver but on the publish site for her to publish this I mean it should show a
13:10 static of four stars because that's kind of like the current rating quote-unquote the current rating for that particular thing right so so
13:19 that's the rating stack it's cool it's interesting I do plan on hoping on integrating this into various other
13:25 aspects so like you can have a rating for a gallery ratings for an a blog post
13:31 right so um you can kind of have stars for those things assigned to each individual item that's on the feature
13:38 request list I hope to add it someday soon um but right now it's all
13:43 individually based okay so you can't right now have ratings tied to a blog
13:49 post yet but that is something I think that is would be a really really amazing idea here's the question about ratings
13:59 can i display a rating stack in the content area so users know what the rating of is oh yeah so that's just
14:05 exactly what I just said so I just published that and if we go back to the content area so there we go so that
14:15 that's a static reading so in in this case what you probably want is you would put a content rating stack on the admin
14:24 side so the admin can set the rating okay and then use the content rating
14:31 stack in read-only mode on the on the content side right so does that make
14:40 sense here let me do that again so here let me put let me set up that situation so here we have a read-only ratings on
14:47 the content side okay it's read-only I'm gonna copy this let's go to our admin page I'm gonna put it there oh because
14:56 this is a Content stack it needs the CMS core on the page so I need to do that
15:01 it's gonna require that I do that so I'm gonna just throw it at the bottom here
15:07 so it's out of the way okay oh and it needs it needs this
15:17 okay or just hide it okay so now we're
15:23 gonna we on the admin side now we're on the admin side okay and I'm gonna check
15:29 uncheck the read-only okay so now we're going to we're gonna publish this because ratings only work
15:35 on the publish site right so here we go
15:51 if we go on the admin page now so here I
15:59 can now set a rating so if I go ahead and set this to five okay and then if I
16:06 go back to the content side we'll see that I manually set it to five
16:13 hopefully that makes sense now now gives you the ability to rate it on the admin side and display it statically on the
16:20 content side so you know that is kind of the dual purpose mode of the rating stack where you can use it as a
16:26 traditional customer rating system or maybe you can say like maybe you're reviewing restaurants and you want to
16:32 give this restaurant five stars right you can use that use it for that as well right so that's cool yes I did put the
16:41 content rating stack in the admin area because in this use case I wanted the
16:46 admin to set the rating not the user the user I want the user to display the I
16:55 wanted the user to see the static rating that the admin set okay so in this case
17:00 I there there's use cases for ratings where the contents that could be used
17:06 either place right it depends on what you're trying to achieve but for the major use for most use cases you're
17:12 going to use the rating stack as a as a way for end users to review products or
17:18 something right so in that case most of the time you're gonna have the content stack on the content side because you
17:25 want your visitors reading things right so that's why that is a content
17:31 but there is that use case like we just went over where it does make sense in
17:36 that case to have the content stack inside the admin area because you want the admin to set it at that point I hope
17:43 that makes sense okay next up from
17:54 readings um files okay we're gonna go over files and Depot's kind of at the same time they're
18:00 really simple so a file allows you to
18:06 manage a single Oh am i sharing my screen oh not yet okay a file allows you
18:12 to manage a single file so like a zip file a CSV file something right and
18:20 those are great for when maybe you want the user wants to provide a download or
18:26 a PDF on their website right and occasionally they want to update that zip file or update a PDF file or
18:32 something of that nature right you will then use the file stack for that because
18:37 then um it is a single file that has a dedicated URL to that file and then when
18:44 you drag in a new version it'll replace the one that's there on the server it's pretty much like images right where it
18:50 replaces the images it's just with files right and the file could be anything it could be a zip file via mp3 it could be
18:56 mp4 right so a lot of people uses use the file stack to upload a video file
19:03 okay because they want to sell to host a video and then put in the URL inside the
19:08 HTML 5 video stack or something like that right at that point you're using
19:13 you're now using the file stack to you
19:18 know a lot of the customer to customize html5 videos on their site right so
19:24 there's a lot of use cases for this file stack it could be a customer uploads a
19:29 zip file and you have that the the URL to that zip file on a button right and
19:36 all you have to do is upload a new zip file via the file stack and they
19:41 magically have a new zip file for there load on the button you don't need to upload the button because the URL is
19:47 always gonna be the same right does that make sense hopefully now depo is a
19:53 little bit different depo is kind of like gallery but for files so you can
19:59 upload as many as you want okay and then on the content side there is a great Depot stack that allows you to view all
20:06 of the files in a Depot okay so without further ado I'm gonna jump in and we'll
20:12 see what those are and how to use them really quick but hopefully you can see the difference you know between
20:17 basically they correspond very tightly to what an image and gallery are you just have file and root profiles a Depot
20:23 okay let's dive in and see those sure my screen okay so here we have in the file
20:33 I'm just gonna keep all the CMS IDs pretty much the same from now on there's not much here file you can you can
20:40 specify the exact file that you want the extension so zip PDF PSD it's gonna have most extensions that you're gonna
20:46 potentially want right so in this example if we wanted a PDF we could do
20:51 that or a zip file okay and then you can style it so this is kind of a foundation
20:59 styling if you are using foundation you can hide the file extension from the the view here so you just have filename okay
21:07 you can open the link in a new tab oh wait I just realized that I added in the
21:12 contents tax I was like these are looking like content settings and there
21:18 we go that makes sense and Depot Depot Depot okay here we go file this is
21:29 looking what I thought it would be CMS ID so here we go see my CD and you put in that and you have your file type
21:35 and that's it really really really simple simple stuff okay um this is
21:42 really cool to use with CSV files if you're using something like my power grid CSV stack because that will that
21:49 will take a CSV file and then generate a HTML table based off the CSV file so
21:56 it's pretty cool you can you can use file to upload a CSV file and then get
22:02 the URL to the file for from the admin area we'll see that in a second place that into the URL field inside
22:08 power grid CSV and you magically have a CSV driven table on your website that is
22:15 powered by total CMS pretty cool that's cool stuff similar to the to the html5
22:20 video stuff right very interesting depo
22:26 again very similar very simple settings here you have the CMS IDE and you can
22:33 give a maximum height to the files okay this particular one was a I set it to it
22:38 a zip file I have a zip file on my machine I can just quickly upload yes ok
22:49 so just for kicks I'm gonna go over the content side and let's go ahead and
22:54 configure these two bad boys here and
23:02 we're gonna here content side we have file and we have Depot ok and the file I
23:11 had a zip file so you're gonna want to make sure kind of like on images that the file type matches right and then you
23:18 can style it with various options you can hide the extension open in a new tab
23:23 so when a user on the content side this allows you to click on it ok same thing
23:28 with this Depot you can you can have it the Depot has the ability to display files as a list or files as a grid you
23:36 have some sort abilities and then you can style them and based on the grid and all that jazz you can force file
23:42 downloads which is very cool so when someone clicks on it it'll force the download even if it's a file that could potentially be opened in a browser
23:49 window ok so I'm gonna go ahead and just publish this stuff
24:01 and we're gonna go to the admin side of things okay so here is my file okay it's
24:12 total CMS if now I'm gonna be uploading a file it's called points pop box zip
24:18 okay and if I upload that doesn't matter what the original name was it will be
24:24 renamed to be what the CMS ideas so here I just I kept that as total CMS zip
24:29 right if we look at the at the server and see my state who we can go to file
24:35 and we'll see that there's total CMS dot right there that's the zip file I just uploaded okay now if I were to upload a
24:45 different zip file which I don't think I have one readily available okay it would replace that zip file okay with
24:52 the new one okay now in this Depot down here depots will take anything right um
24:58 so let's say I have this PDF document okay here's a I can upload a JPEG and if
25:07 you notice here what it does is it it actually shows you the kind of the icon for each particular file right so I can
25:15 upload a zip file there right and I don't what else I should be good
25:23 these mp4 files are huge so that's not both of those okay so you see now I have three files there what's kind of cool as
25:29 it shows us the each individual icon for that type of file that it is uh if you
25:35 notice when we hover over these we also get similar to the imaging galleries we
25:41 have the ability to copy the file path right now there are also CMS macros that
25:48 you can get for path so you can do you know CMOS file path and then the the CMS
25:53 ID okay uh but it's really simple just to open up the admin area get the link here copy it then you can paste this URL
26:02 into a button right and then that button will download the zip file okay really
26:08 really simple stuff same thing with depot few um depot refresh so here I can click on that I
26:18 can get the actual download to that file here ok and I can do that with each
26:25 individual file ok and obviously you can delete you can delete a file from a Depot or delete a file on the server
26:32 just by simply clicking the trashcan button ok now on the content side of things um
26:40 this is the file sack and here's the Depot stack right there are many other
26:46 ways to use files and Depot's other than displaying this this is just kind of a convenient download stack right if you
26:52 throw this on the page it'll down you know gives you a cool little icon you can click it and download it okay but if
26:58 you wanted to right you can go here and instead of that let's say I wanted to
27:04 add a button to my page so I'd add up I could add a button here I could remember
27:14 I copied that the URL from the file before oh I guess I didn't copy it I just highlighted it let's go ahead and
27:20 go back to the admin page and I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna copy this I'm
27:29 gonna put that inside of my button set
27:34 link I changed my title to download ok I
27:40 now I have a download button right I publish that and go to the page I now
27:52 have a download button that will download this file so you don't you don't even need to have this file stack you could just
27:58 simply use the the file URL to put in wherever you want okay it could be a
28:05 download button it could be in an html5 video stack it could be inside of a power grid CSV to import you know a CSV
28:13 file um really the the the use case for file is unlimited because there's all
28:21 you need to do is provide a file and you could just keep replacing that file via
28:26 uploading new versions from the admin stack okay firstly you could use depo that way as
28:33 well um you know you can upload a file to a Depot and then get the link and put it in a download but with Depot's the
28:39 the files won't replace themselves like like the file stack will so hopefully
28:45 that makes sense but the depot is is useful for providing you know full lists of you know maybe downloads for your
28:51 students if you're a teacher right you got a little a little class you want to be able to provide them downloads to files and stuff like that all you have
28:58 to do is upload it to a Depot and they're magically all there on the server and this Depot content stack will
29:04 display all of them in a nice download form for you okay so it's very nice
29:19 okay next up is going to be so we did um
29:27 I stopped sharing I see some Q&A let's see checking about uploading what
29:35 about a CRC checking to uploading and or down um Brad I don't understand your
29:41 question if you want to clarify that I can answer that again a little bit later not sure
29:47 what a CRC is okay Trey my screen again
30:03 okay so now we're gonna jump into
30:08 actually let's do data store first okay I think data store is really really cool
30:14 okay um and datastore actually starts on the content side okay so datastore is kind of like
30:22 ratings um you can you have multiple use cases for it okay um where the content
30:29 stack could be used inside the the admin side and vice versa okay but by default
30:38 datastore essentially think of it this way um it's a form a very simple form
30:44 okay but a form and it allows users to submit data and that data is stored
30:52 inside of a CSV file inside the CMS and then whenever someone submits a new
30:58 instance of that form it appends to that CSV file so essentially what it's doing is its
31:04 gonna whenever someone submits a form instead of sending emails or saving to a database it's just taking the data from
31:10 that form and appending it to a CSV file that's gonna be probably the most common
31:16 use case of data store okay now a flipside of that probably the only use
31:23 case I could think of on the admin side is you could have a form on the admin side that populates the CSV file that
31:32 the admin can use to populate a CSV file okay now I have a sac called power grid CSV that
31:41 I mentioned earlier that can take a CSV file and then display its contents to a
31:47 web page now what if your admin use this
31:52 little form to save data okay and then that data from the C's because it's just
31:58 a CSV file on the add on the in the CMS is then displayed inside power grid CSV
32:04 to the content okay now um I'm not gonna be able to just to show you that right
32:10 today right um that part where you know the admin saves it in the power grid CSV displays it um I'd be happy to I think I
32:18 have a demo of it maybe um I think I did a demo of it maybe in one my videos um
32:25 but we are short on time today and I really want to get into blog okay what
32:30 I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show us the the the most you know prosperous use case which is you know having the form
32:36 on your page it could be a subscription form it could be whatever you want a way of capturing data could be any any sort
32:43 of data okay so we're gonna create a form and we're gonna save that to the
32:48 CMS so let's go ahead and share my screen
33:06 okay so like I said um the datastore
33:11 stack is primarily gonna be in the input side is done on the content page because
33:16 we want to get data from the visitors of the website okay I'm gonna go ahead and
33:23 add another one column stack into here I do my traditional three rep okay and
33:32 then we're gonna add a Content datastore stack now the datastore stack is
33:38 essentially just a bunch of inputs okay and you can add as many inputs as you
33:44 want okay now you can lay them out so if you you
33:50 can actually use column stacks so you can add in a column stack and say you
33:55 know I have a field here and I have a field here okay and then maybe you have another field
34:02 there on the bottom that's you know three lines okay so let's say for example this first field is name okay so
34:11 we do name email this is like the most
34:19 generic use case right I mean this is kind of in comment
34:29 okay so here I have a very simple form his name email comment okay um and I
34:36 guess I could add a yeah that's fine
34:52 so I'm going to say Joe hello oops
35:07 um oh we need to have hmm I forget I
35:16 forgot about that okay need to have this save save stack okey-dokey now you have
35:35 a button that's set to form submit
35:50 let's preview this so it's it's not
35:59 gonna baladi that so you know I'm just gonna do tooth the test test test
36:04 save that okay so now if we it's saved if we go to the
36:10 CMS now we have data store and we have total CMS CSV now get total CMS is just
36:16 the CMS ID oh really it's gonna open up that that was a mistake I mean we know I
36:24 had Excel installed on this machine but now with that quit
36:29 cancel that messed it up open with
36:50 I'll just open it up with TextEdit it's fine there we go
36:56 you'll see that the it has Joe test test comment hey pretty simple and if I go
37:01 ahead and and do it again Rob hello
37:07 hello there save okay go back here if we
37:13 were to open with text again you'll see that boom there it is okay so that's CSV
37:23 file every time a new a new submission happens it just appends that to the CSV file okay um very simple concept but
37:31 again very powerful um it's very cool you can have as many fields as you want you could have just one field and that
37:36 basically it'll be one line for every submission very cool so kind of kind of like your your uh your mind is your own
37:45 worst enemy on this one because it's just whatever you can imagine now on the admin side what we can do okay is let's
37:53 go to the admin admin data store okay on
37:59 the admin data store all you do is provided the CMS ID which we'll leave is the default okay and let's preview it in
38:06 the browser okay so on the admin side we
38:13 have a couple things here so it's this it's just the icon of a data store and then there's two buttons below it this
38:19 cloud button download the CSV file so we click on it it will whoops oh it's
38:25 because it's doing it locally or we can edit it okay that download button would
38:31 work if we weren't if we weren't inside preview if we were on the actual published page um the bulk edit option
38:40 allows you to edit the CSV file manually and then poke save a new copy okay so um
38:47 so if I wanted to add you know and you know I wanna say Robert right Robbie
38:55 sorry Robbie Robbie's better click Save
39:01 and if I were to look at the CMS again and open that file we'll see that it
39:10 says Robbie hello there right okay so the admin side it's just
39:16 more of a ability to bulk edit and/or download that file okay I see a couple
39:24 questions that popped up about datastore is it possible to give this CSV headings
39:31 okay so if you wanted to give this CSV headings what I would do is either you
39:36 could bulk edit and put a heading in there or the very first time you save the form make it the headings you know name so um
39:44 you know because the heading is in a CSV file the heading is purely the first entry in that's in the file so all you
39:51 do is the first time you save the form you would just save it as the headings right or again you can bulk edit the
39:57 file in the admin page um and then add the headings you want alright so um that's what I would recommend
40:03 it's just the easiest way to do that okay
40:16 so just a quick rundown on how you would
40:22 if you wanted to um you know put it into you know get that CSV file and put it
40:27 into like power grid um you would just do your website address slash CMS data slash data store slash you know total
40:35 CMS dot CSV or whatever the name of your CSV file is so you'd get the URL right and then you'd simply paste that into
40:43 power grid CSV settings for you know the URL to the CSV file and that's it like
40:49 and it should just work so um really cool stuff power grid is is
40:54 a kind of a complex stack there's a lot of style settings a lot of options um so
41:00 I don't want to go down that rabbit hole right now since I know we all want to get the blog okay next up last thing
41:14 before we get to blog okay is feeds now
41:19 I said feeds feeds have been they were
41:29 awesome so before we had blogs I had feeds and in the first version at old v1 dot oh
41:35 right and my use case for feeds was not everybody needs a blog um you know feeds
41:43 are great if you just want to post like temporary stuff there's a lot of people I've seen a lot of blogs where people
41:51 like let's say for instance restaurants right they're posting their daily special or their weekly special to a
41:57 blog post and really that data just doesn't make sense for a blog post
42:03 because blog posts really are like in their traditional sense there's
42:08 something that you would go and look up later on right um you know because it
42:14 you know in a blog traditional blog it has a blog post page and you know it's
42:20 for stuff that you would archive and look at later on and feeds were more of like you know stuff that would
42:26 eventually just fall off the feed right now since then obviously we have blog
42:33 and blog is far superior okay um and like I said during lunch I think feeds
42:40 can be improved a lot um I I have ideas for feeds 2.0 I guess we could call it
42:46 um I'm not sure if I'll keep the feeds name actually I might try to come up with it something different for it I
42:52 know I kind of like the beads name though but feeds are there and essentially what
42:58 it is is you have a feed item is one image and a blurb of text that's it and
43:06 you can display these and you can't really view the archive of them um it
43:13 seemed perfectly honest with you um if I would if I were to you know from an end users perspective I'd use a blog instead
43:20 of a feed right now um just because blog actually is powerful enough now um has
43:26 enough settings where you can turn off the things that you wouldn't want for the blog like you don't have to have a blog post page you don't have to link
43:32 out to things but with blog you get you know infinite loading you get a lot more
43:37 filters and it's not to say that um you know feeds can't have that stuff I do
43:44 want to add that stuff um but right now I think you can do a better job with a
43:49 feed with blog then you can with feeds right now feeds does have a lot of
43:55 quirks to it and as you saw some people asking you know some of the status on
44:00 some of it there are some issues with feeds like I think it's editing the feed
44:06 item and changing the image there's there's a there's a there's currently a bug with that you can only have one
44:13 image with the feed item and people want multiple images well you can do that with blog right um so I'm gonna be blunt
44:22 and say right now they're just like I think if you're gonna want to feed you're probably just gonna it probably
44:28 better off using blog you have more options available to you um you don't have to have a blog post page anymore so
44:34 you don't need to law you know link out you can turn off the linking abilities in the blog list okay but with that said
44:42 let's just do it five minute example of what feed can do for you maybe it'll maybe it'll suit your needs
44:49 okay so feeds it all starts off with the
45:01 feed stack okay actually we need two columns we needed two column stack four feeds feed there's actually two admin
45:24 stacks there's the feed list okay and the feed form like how you know saving a
45:31 feed basically okay um and the feed form
45:36 has all kinds of different things and very similar settings to what you've seen in other stacks okay you have CMS
45:42 ID you can change some placeholder stuff you can hide the feed image so if you don't want a feed to have an image um
45:47 you can show the Save button okay um feeds do you have RSS feeds associated
45:54 with them so you can um you know have a feed title and all that jazz uh you can
46:00 give up you know the link the item link should be what page your feet is on
46:05 because feed items don't have individual links so in the RSS feed every feed item
46:11 is gonna link to the same page okay and then we have all the image resizing
46:17 abilities and hip wig options that we'd have from image and hip wig editors okay
46:23 you can also do plain text here as well so all these settings should look very familiar
46:28 they all behave exactly the same as they would if you were doing an image or a gallery or text the feed lists all this
46:37 does is shows you existing feed items so you can potentially edit them delete
46:42 them do things like that okay and then on the content side so
46:49 let's go ahead and alright let's let's actually publish this and what we will
46:54 do is I'll create a few feed items that we can then see now in the in the
47:09 getting started with total CMS and foundation video series that I did I actually did a a pretty decent use case
47:16 for feeds on and it was like to build a team page where um the image I uploaded
47:22 the members you know a team members photo and then the the text portion of
47:27 the feed was like the about that person um it worked I thought it was a really a really decent way of using feeds um and
47:35 it was simple it was you know it pretty much exactly wouldn't need it it didn't need to link out to anything it just and
47:41 it just kind of worked right so let's go ahead and here I'm on the admin page I
47:46 did publish it though it's for add function there we go I did publish it
47:54 might as well use the published version okay so here are the the list is over
48:01 here but we have no feed items yet so there is no list um hit point has a lot of stuff um one thing I should notice
48:07 that I should note that I didn't earlier is that hip wig it's that all these settings are kind of global right so um
48:14 I'm gonna just simplify hip waiting a little bit we don't need all this jazz
48:25 binary oh just simplify that page a little bit
48:32 so I can do now is I'm just going to let's drag in an image and I'm just
48:44 gonna type in some hip some we're gonna save okay
48:50 and there goes it refresh my page and now I have my first my first up feed item right I'm gonna go ahead and let's
48:56 just add in a couple more feed items here I don't want those images let's do that
49:03 image more hip some text and just for
49:13 kicks I'm gonna do one more so there we
49:28 have it I now have three feed items okay um here I can go ahead and edit the alt
49:34 tag information for the image in that feed okay this is where I can get the URL to the RSS feed for this feed okay
49:43 this is where I can edit the feed item okay so you should be able to edit the
49:49 image change the text around and click Save okay and then you can also delete feed
49:56 items as well so you can click on that it'll confirm do you want to delete it you can say okay and they'll delete that
50:01 post okay so really simple right um
50:08 let's go ahead on the content side and let's start displaying these things right so let's go to if you remember how
50:17 the original version of blogs looked like blog you know I think it was like
50:22 the original 12.0 blog was a lot
50:30 different than it is now and it was it was because blogs kind of was based off
50:36 feeds and it was basically like a more powerful feed right which it was but
50:42 then it turned into its own set of things and there's a lot of really complex settings
50:47 here that I think blog does a lot better now in feeds so basically here in feeds
50:52 you can you have multiple layouts right so we have car a card layout and a list layout okay you can image a line left
51:00 right center or change the image width and the padding's and do you want to
51:06 flow the text around the image or don't you know you can have a read more button
51:11 so that if the text in a in an item is too much it'll it'll pretty much it'll
51:20 it'll shrink it and then it'll put like a little read more link then it'll use JavaScript to kind of you know flow that
51:25 text down it's not like the read more in blog okay it is different and then you
51:33 can you can provide the the height the trigger height for if a feed is greater
51:38 than you know 200 pixels tall shrink it up okay so let's go ahead and just
51:45 preview this right now let's see how it looks
51:51 so here I mean it's a decent it's a feed right so here I have um you know I
51:56 didn't adding padding and probably need to add some padding here um you know you could alternate the colors so if I click
52:02 on alternate colors we could you know have you know the item color words are
52:07 different so just a different way of providing data right it could be you
52:14 could use this data for so many things it could be like I have here where it's showing you know a picture of a person
52:19 and some information about it it could be this week's specials right um but the
52:26 whole thing is it's you display a certain number of those feed items and ones that are older you just you don't
52:32 see right there just kind of a fine a fade off the page and they're gone right I mean they're still in the CMS they're
52:38 not gone but um you'd have to have another page to display older ones or something like that right um the control
52:46 for you know loading older feed items isn't there I agree that it needs to be
52:52 there um but the stack needs to be completely redone and done better kind of more how like blog is done
52:59 it it needs it needs some improvement but with its implementation of what it
53:04 is now it works right it's simple you can have a picture and some text and
53:09 then you can add that to your to your sites right so if you have some sort of
53:15 repeating content okay um feeds can be great for that where you
53:21 know you have you know you know maybe it's just reviews right you want to add a new customer review to a page right
53:29 and so you add in that you know that as a customer view and then maybe in the in
53:35 the feed in the stack okay on the content side on you can actually like shuffle the feed items so instead of
53:42 showing the same three results right like four here let me do it max count so
53:48 here I have max count three so we can do shuffle feed right let's just do let's just do this well do two so you can
53:58 display different amount of feed items based on mobile tablet and desktop as well so you can show more on desktop and
54:04 and less on tablet right so here I'm
54:10 shuffling the feed and I'm only showing two okay so here I'm showing these two items okay and if I get out and get back
54:17 in it should shuffle it and show me a different two items and it is right so now it's showing me different two items
54:22 okay so it's the way maybe you use it you know for you know user testimonials
54:28 and or quotes right where you can just add stuff maybe a little image or just
54:34 text right and then just have a way to you know display a certain number of those right so that's the use case for
54:41 feeds they're very simple right now can they be made more complex and a more
54:47 feature-rich definitely will it happen definitely when will happen I don't know
54:54 so um but for right now feeds works um and they work in simple use cases some
55:03 people try to use them I think for too much need they try to make feed into a blog and at that point just use a blog
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