Tutorials – Learning Composr
Tags
- Addon
- Administration
- Advice & Guidance
- Analytics
- Banners
- Business Development
- Calendar
- Catalogues
- Chatrooms
- Collaboration
- Configuration
- Content
- Contributing
- CSS
- Design & Themeing
- Development
- Downloads
- eCommerce
- Feedback features
- Forum
- Fun and Games
- Galleries
- Installation
- Internationalisation
- Internet Technology
- Introduction
- JavaScript
- Maintenance
- Members
- Mobile
- News
- Newsletters
- Opinion
- Pages
- Performance
- PHP
- Power tools
- Security
- SEO
- Social
- Structure and navigation
- Support
- Third Party Integration
- Upgrading
- Webhosting
- Web standards & Accessibility
- Wiki
Tutorials
How to Close or Open Your Composr Website
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
- Added:
- April 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
- Tags:
You'll want to use the closed site feature if your site is new and you want to keep it temporarily closed, or you want to close your site while performing maintenance. This tutorial explains how it works.
Theme Lifecycle
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- November 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Regular
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
How the files in a theme are managed, from initial theme creation, through upgrades.
Using diff tools to upgrade an ocPortal theme
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- July 8th 2024
- Media type:
- Video
- Difficulty:
- Regular
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
- Tags:
How to use a diff tool to find changes made in a theme, or upgrade the files in a theme.
Cloning your site
- Rating:
-
- By:
- temp1024
- Added:
- May 1st 2015
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Expert
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
- Tags:
How to clone your website to create a testing copy.
Manually editing your database with phpMyAdmin
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Regular
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
A primer on databases, and how SQL is used to connect to them - as well as practical advice on using phpMyAdmin.
Uninstalling Composr from a server
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
We don't want you to uninstall Composr, but we provide a script for you to do it with. We're that nice.
How to Conduct an Upgrade in Composr
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
- Added:
- May 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
- Tags:
A regular task you will need to do is upgrading your Composr website to the latest version of the software. This tutorial explains the basic process.
Backing up your site
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Steven Gilson, and Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
How to backup your website (be it using our backup module, or otherwise), and why it is so important to do it.
Professional upgrading
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- April 1st 2017
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Expert
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
- Tags:
A professional process for updating a customer website.
Cleanup tools
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Regular
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
Been editing files manually, and need to force Composr to "empty its caches"? We show you how.
Staging Servers
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- May 1st 2017
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Expert
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
- Tags:
Some advice about using a staging server.
Performing an upgrade
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
Important background information that will help you keep your website up-to-date with the latest Composr.
Optimising Performance
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Expert
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
Composr is very heavily optimised for high performance out-of-the-box, but here are some advanced performance tips.
Moving sites
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
How to move a site from one server to another.
Disaster recovery
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
- Added:
- August 1st 2008
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
- Tags:
Some 'life saving' solutions to disastrous scenarios that can happen on an unstable web server configuration.
Backing up your Composr Installation
- Rating:
-
- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
- Added:
- September 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
- Tags:
A task which you should not overlook is backing up your Composr website. Should anything happen to your website without a backup, it can result in a loss of a huge amount of data.
Need better information?
The Composr documentation is user-driven:
- If you have found documentation problems that you'd like someone else to solve log an issue to the tracker.
- If you'd like to contribute a chunk of documentation to go into a tutorial, also log an issue to the tracker.
- If you want to contribute a new tutorial you can submit a link.