• Registered: 19 Nov 2012
  • Posts: 3

Topic: Define edit areas does not work very well

I have built a site to test this CMS.

Unfortunately it has failed at the first hurdle thus far as it only seems to allow me define certain areas in the main .html body for editing.  Can anyone advise why?

I can see absolutely nothing on the forums about this when searching and as there is no user manual documenting such problems so i can't get much further through my own efforts.

Also i tried to select the all the boxes as one for the main area, rather than separate boxes and then nothing at all is editable on the entire page.

Can anyone advise why that happens?

Thx

  • Registered: 19 Nov 2012
  • Posts: 3

Re: Define edit areas does not work very well

I have also noticed that if i make one area editable another area can then become un-editable.

If there was a short manual or document on these problems then i could try to build various areas of the site differently to gte around this.

All help appreciated.

Thx

  • Registered: 03 Feb 2013
  • Posts: 2

Re: Define edit areas does not work very well

I'm having this issue as well - I wanted to use this on a client site, as even Wordpress seems confusing to her, but I'm unable to make 90% of my test site editable?

I tried adding 'edit' classes in dreamweaver which didn't work either.

Very frustrating, and no way am I purchasing until this is fixed/resolved!

  • Registered: 21 Dec 2010
  • Posts: 295

Re: Define edit areas does not work very well

Hi Kendra, if you are trying to make your PHP include files editable then you will need to adjust your code. Here's a snippet from your index.php page:

<?php include 'header.php'?>

Change it so it conforms with the examples here:
http://smplc.ms/ssi

If you still have issues, let us know via email specifically which areas of a page you are trying to make editable so that we can test your site and diagnose what's going on.

  • Registered: 21 Dec 2010
  • Posts: 295

Re: Define edit areas does not work very well

Hi Simple, the system won't let you nest editable areas so for example you could not do this:

<div class="edit">
   <h1 class="edit">Title to edit</h1>
   <p>Text to edit</p>
</div>

If you could let us know the areas specifically that you are trying to make editable then we can diagnose this for you. Feel free to email this to us and provide as much information as you can to help us replicate your issues.

Geneally these sorts of things are very easy to resolve.

Due to the nature of the system it is not possible to list all of the potential issues that can occur along with a solution as there are too many variables involved so each issue needs to be looked at independently. Issues can arise from any number of things including invalid HTML on a page or FTP connectivity issues or a bug in the system or misconfiguration of your site settings.

  • Registered: 03 Feb 2013
  • Posts: 2

Re: Define edit areas does not work very well

I had to remove the index.php file completely.  I had an index.html file, which is what shows by default in browsers, but I had issues getting SimpleCMS to work with it.  I am still having an issue with editable areas, however.  I will look at the nesting issue and check out the provided link.

Thanks for the reply!