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Tuskfish CMS User Manual

Contents

About Tuskfish CMS

Setting up your site

Adding and managing content

Organising content with tags and collections

Themes and templates

Site structure

Administration

Advanced topics

Copyright, all rights reserved.

In this collection

How to create content blocks

Instructions on creating and displaying blocks of content in Tuskfish CMS.

Adding, editing and deleting content

Instructions on how to add, edit and delete your content in Tuskfish CMS.

Customising the home page (moving your content stream to another page)

Instructions on how to move your content stream to a different page in Tuskfish CMS.

Installation (v1)

A guide to installing Tuskfish CMS v1 series.

Securing your new website

Instructions on securing a new installation of Tuskfish CMS.

How to adapt a third-party Bootstrap template for use with Tuskfish

Instructions on how to port a Bootstrap theme to Tuskfish CMS.

How to assign variables to a template

Instructions on assigning data to templates for display.

Creating custom favicons

How to generate custom favicons and logos for your site.

Creating website sections

Instructions on how to create sections within your Tuskfish CMS website.

Password reset

Instructions on how to reset your password if locked out of Tuskfish CMS.

The cache system

An explanation of how the image and page caching mechanisms work in Tuskfish CMS.

Setting up two-factor authentication

Instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication with Yubikey hardware tokens in Tuskfish CMS.

How the Tuskfish content model actually works

An explanation of the base content model used by Tuskfish CMS and how to extend it.

Themes and templates: Changing the look and feel of your site

Instructions on how to change the look and feel of your site, install, clone and override themes and templates.

About Tuskfish CMS

Tuskfish is a micro content management system. It provides a minimalist yet capable website publishing framework, providing the tools that you need and nothing that you don’t. It is fast, easy to use and simple to maintain. Tuskfish is suitable for publishing blogs, static “brochure” sites, photo galleries, electronic libraries, podcasts or any combination of the above. 

Alternatives to Bootstrap

Instructions on how to use an alternative (non-Bootstrap) presentation framework for Tuskfish CMS.

RSS feeds

Explanation of how to automatically generate RSS feeds in Tuskfish CMS.

Organising content with tags and collections

Instructions on how to organise and curate your content in Tuskfish CMS.

Configuring your site preferences

Instructions on configuring a Tuskfish CMS website.

Logging in to your site

Instructions on how to login to Tuskfish CMS.