Posts in the Perch category

• Working with Perch

  17 July 2018 by Clive Walker

  I love working with Perch CMS and it's a very flexible and powerful system. Here's my Perch workflow and a few of my favourite things about working with it.

• Perch Dashboard Links Widget

  17 May 2018 by Clive Walker

  I've been working on a Perch Dashboard Links widget. I wrote a Google Analytics widget a while back but haven't followed that up. So, I thought it was time to relearn a few things about Perch widgets.

• A custom Help page for Perch CMS

  26 October 2017 by Clive Walker

  There are several ways to add Help text to Perch CMS page templates and regions. But, did you know, it's also possible to add a custom Help page for your users? Yes, there's a Setting for that!

• Did you know you can customise the Perch Admin user interface?

  06 April 2017 by Clive Walker

  Perch CMS provides the ability for you to make simple changes to the Admin interface (Admin UI). I've used it in the past to make the 'help' lines a little bigger, under input fields, for a specific customer. Here's what I've done recently to customise the Admin UI in Perch 3.

• How to edit forms in Perch CMS

  07 December 2016 by Clive Walker

  How can I enable a client to edit form fields via the admin area of Perch CMS? Here's one way of doing that.

• Managing content items with Perch Blocks and Collections

  09 November 2016 by Clive Walker

  One of the best features in Perch CMS is Perch Blocks which enables website editors to choose specific content types for any area of their site. Together with Collections in Perch Runway, this is an incredibly powerful method of content management that is easy to implement. And, after all, isn't that what a content management system is (should be) all about?

• Using Perch layouts and managing SVG assets with Perch

  11 September 2016 by Clive Walker

  It's possible to use Perch layouts to manage the SVG files on your site. Here's how I do that.

• Why I started Perchology

  11 August 2016 by Clive Walker

  I have a new project called Perchology which is an email newsletter with links and resources about Perch CMS. Here's a little background and why I started the project.

• Live preview, SimpleMDE editor and Perch CMS

  13 July 2016 by Clive Walker

  I've been trying out SimpleMDE, which is a simple Markdown editor, in one of my local development Perch CMS sites. It doesn't have image uploading but it does have a side-by-side live preview mode that I was keen to try.

• Page numbers in page titles and meta descriptions

  27 June 2016 by Clive Walker

  I want to output page numbers (and a separator character) in the page code for paginated pages on this site. Here's how I do that.