This section will explain everything about the Collection Contents tab in the back-office.

Widgets are little blocks of static or dynamic content that can be placed in any Container provided by the b2evolution Skin you are using for your collection. Widgets can be just anything: the title of the website, the title of an article, the content…

Display-Time is when some content is being displayed to the user. This happens typically in the Front-Office. Save-Time is when some content has just been entered / composed / edited and the author is clicking the "Save" button of the form.…

Tiny URLs or Short URLs are shorter URLs to your content, which can be useful when positing on social media. By default, b2evolution will generate Tiny URLs for all your content, base on your baseurl. But if you actually have a short domain that…

The Item Usage defines the internal function of an Item Type. For example: "Blog Post", "Post with custom fields" and "Manual Page" may be 3 Item-Types that all have the usage of "In content flow Post".…

This page will guide you through the process of taking control of your site. We will show you: How to customize your site; How to add & remove collections; How to change the look & feel; How to add & remove content. At the end of this guide…

This widget displays the content of an Item or Standalone Page.

This handler includes a "second level" a.k.a. "disp" template based on the value of the $disp variable, i-e: based on the type of content that should be displayed on the current page.

GET|POST /api/v1/collections//posts? This is the API equivalent of disp = posts. See: URL Parameters. Note: It doesn’t support param types, because it keeps only content post types, and excludes pages, intros, sidebar…

Display Items (Posts/Pages/Links…) with switchable tabs. See Tutorial: How to Display content as Tabs on a page.

Everytime you upload a file to b2evolution, it calculates and saves a unique hash code based on the content of that file. By storing these hash codes in the database, it is possible to compare them and detect which files are identical from all the files…

In order to add content to your site you first need to log in, then click the 'Write' option in the menu bar at the top of the page.

While b2evolution can be used as a standalone blogging platform, it is also designed to be used as a blog/news/content manager to be embedded in a larger site. For example, our website - b2evolution.net - itself uses b2evolution for several sections su…

Comment spam is a plague on all blogs, forums and generally all websites that allow user generated content. Why is that? Spammers are actually professionals hired to do just that! What they try to achieve is to place a link to their own website (or th…

Using Short Tags in Posts Short tags can be inserted in the posts with the use of square brackets, i-e: [teaserbreak]. They will be replaced with specific content before the post is displayed. Some short tags are built-in features of the b2evolution…

This short tag is used to create a link inside your post content using any URL-type custom field defined.

This tag displays an input field used to search for content items based on its author.

This tag displays an input field used to search for content items.

b2evolution is a Complete solution for running Content + Community websites. We call it a C3MS (Complete Content + Community Management System). Main features b2evolution allows you to run a website – internet, intranet or extranet – which…