Making websites with October CMS

In this video series we are going to get familiar with October CMS. A great Laravel based CMS. We are going to be creating themes, plugins, learn about administration and other great stuff.

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Making websites with October CMSInstalling October CMS

In this video series we are going to take a look at October CMS and make a website with it. In this first episode I'm going to show you how to install October on your machine.

Episode  01  / Duration 12:09  / 
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Making websites with October CMSBasic Concepts

Before we start delving into making a new website with October CMS I just want to take a few minutes to talk about some of the basic concepts that you will encounter when using October.

Episode  02  / Duration 21:44  / 
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Making websites with October CMSCreating Themes

In this episode of Making Websites With October CMS I'm quickly going to show you how you can create your own theme using this CMS.

Episode  03  / Duration 09:18  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSetting Up Laravel Elixir

In this episode we are going to set up Laravel Elixir to with our October CMS installation. Also we are going to enable Livereload, so that we can see the changes on our site whenever we save a file.

Episode  04  / Duration 16:56  / 
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Making websites with October CMSBuilder Plugin Overview

In this episode we are going to create our first plugin with Builder for October CMS. This plugin is going to act as a custom content type for our site, with custom fields and everything.

Episode  05  / Duration 19:12  / 
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Making websites with October CMSBasic Templating

In this episode we are going to take a quick brake from the builder plugin and just make our theme a bit prettier. An of course we are going to learn a few things in the process.

Episode  06  / Duration 11:11  / 
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Making websites with October CMSDisplaying Lists and Details

Now we are going to continue working with the Builder plugin for October CMS and learn how to display our lists and create and display details page for our movies.

Episode  07  / Duration 10:27  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSlugs And Pagination

In this episode of Making Web Sites With October CMS I'm going to show you how to link up to the details page via slugs and also how to create pagination for your list pages.

Episode  08  / Duration 08:17  / 
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Making websites with October CMSImages And Galleries

In this episode I'm going to show you how to add a single image to your model and also how to create gallery of images for your model. Of course we are going to learn how to display those images on our front-end and also resize and crop them.

Episode  09  / Duration 14:57  / 
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Making websites with October CMSRelations

In this episode we are going to be talking about relations in October CMS, this is one of the most important things you have to understand in October to be able to successfully link your content together.

Episode  10  / Duration 17:25  / 
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Making websites with October CMSInverse Relations

In this episode of Making Websites With October CMS we are going to create inverse relation so that we can display movies that belong to a specific genre.

Episode  11  / Duration 07:35  / 
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Making websites with October CMSRepeater field

In this episode of Making Websites With October CMS I'm going to show you how to use and create repeater fields for your models.

Episode  12  / Duration 09:26  / 
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Making websites with October CMSCreating Custom Form Widgets

In this episode I'm going to show you how to create custom form widgets for October CMS.

Episode  13  / Duration 19:54  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSaving Form Widget Data

In this episode we are going to be setting up everything so that we can save the data that we are passing through our October CMS form widget.

Episode  14  / Duration 32:16  / 
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Making websites with October CMSCreating New Data via Form Widget

In this episode I'm going to show you how to create new model instance via October CMS form widget that we created in the previous two episodes.

Episode  15  / Duration 15:23  / 
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Making websites with October CMSCreating a Simple Component

In this episode of Making Websites With October CMS we are going to be creating a simple October CMS component for our website.

Episode  16  / Duration 11:30  / 
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Making websites with October CMSAdding Options to Components

Now that we have created our first simple component for October CMS we will add some options to it so that we can control output of our component better.

Episode  17  / Duration 15:48  / 
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Making websites with October CMSCreating Contact Form

In this episode I'm going to show you how to create a simple contact form component for your October CMS website. And also how to use SMTP service from Google to send emails while developing your site.

Episode  18  / Duration 27:00  / 
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Making websites with October CMSForm validation

Now let's make our October CMS contact form a bit better by creating form validation for our fields.

Episode  19  / Duration 10:25  / 
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Making websites with October CMSFrontend Forms

In this episode we are going to be creating frontend form for October CMS so that the users can enter data directly into our database. I'm also going to show you how to use Flash messages to give feedback to the user.

Episode  20  / Duration 13:17  / 
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Making websites with October CMSUsers

In this episode we are going to setup User plugin for October CMS, and learn how to register and login users and also how to protect our pages from unauthorized access.

Episode  21  / Duration 19:12  / 
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Making websites with October CMSAjax Form Validation

In this episode we are quickly going back to forms and validation, but this time we are going to do it with Ajax na October CMSs Ajax framework.

Episode  22  / Duration 17:36  / 
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Making websites with October CMSExtending User Plugin

In this episode we are going to extend User plugin for October CMS with two additional fields.

Episode  23  / Duration 16:41  / 
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Making websites with October CMSExtending User Plugin - Frontend

In this episode I'm going to show you how to add and save your newly added fields for October CMS user plugin on the frontend of your site.

Episode  24  / Duration 10:53  / 
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Making websites with October CMSNEW! Ajax Form Validation

In this video we are going to learn about new Ajax form validation that just came to October CMS few days ago.

Episode  25  / Duration 09:52  / 
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Making websites with October CMSUploading Images From Frontend

In this episode I'm going to show you how to upload images and save it to the October CMS database from frontend of your website.

Episode  26  / Duration 10:34  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSeeding With Faker

In this episode I'm going to show you how to populate your October CMS database with some fake data using the Faker plugin.

Episode  27  / Duration 15:39  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSearch

In this episode of Making Websites with October CMS I'm going to show you how to search through your site using SiteSearch plugin.

Episode  28  / Duration 13:46  / 
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Making websites with October CMSPHP block

In this episode I'm going to show you how to use PHP block in your October CMS theme to create simple and complex queries and display them on your pages.

Episode  29  / Duration 22:30  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSeeding With Routes

In this episode I'm going to show you how you can seed your database using routes and without losing any of your data.

Episode  30  / Duration 11:42  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSuccess and Error Messages in Forms

In this episode of Making websites with October CMS I'm going to show you how to create success and error messages for your contact form.

Episode  31  / Duration 10:55  / 
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Making websites with October CMSGroups and Permissions

In this episode we are going to learn about groups and permissions in October CMS.

Episode  32  / Duration 15:53  / 
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Making websites with October CMSStatic Pages and Menus

In this video we are going to learn about static pages, and static menus feature that you get from the static pages plugin.

Episode  33  / Duration 16:41  / 
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Making websites with October CMSBackend Lists

In this episode of Making Websites With October CMS we are going to take a bit deeper look at backend lists.

Episode  34  / Duration 15:50  / 
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Making websites with October CMSBackend Filters

In this episode I'm going to show you how to create filters for your backend lists in October CMS.

Episode  35  / Duration 12:08  / 
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Making websites with October CMSRelation Manager

In this episode I'm going to show you how to use Relation Manager for October CMS.

Episode  36  / Duration 22:21  / 
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Making websites with October CMSLaravel Mix and Webpack

In this episode we are going to take a look at how you can use Laravel Mix (wrapper around Webpack) to create your asset pipeline in October CMS.

Episode  37  / Duration 25:29  / 
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Making websites with October CMSCreating Sitemap.xml

In this episode I'm going to show you how to generate sitemap.xml file for your October CMS website by hand.

Episode  38  / Duration 10:52  / 
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Making websites with October CMSFrontend Filters

In this episode I'm going to make a lot of mistakes but by the end of it we will make a frontend filter for our movies using October CMS components system

Episode  39  / Duration 32:07  / 
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Making websites with October CMSSemantic UI

In this quick episode we are just going to integrate Semantic UI css framework to our October CMS installation.

Episode  40  / Duration 05:24  / 
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Making websites with October CMSAjax Frontend Filters

In this episode we are going to use Octobers Ajax framework to filter our movies by genre and year.

Episode  41  / Duration 34:13  / 
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Making websites with October CMSAjax Frontend Sorting

In this episode I'm going to show you how to use October CMSs Ajax framework to sort the items you are listing.

Episode  42  / Duration 13:04  / 
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Making websites with October CMSAjax Pagination

In this episode we are going to extend our Ajax filtering system with one more feature, and that is going to be Ajax Pagination, using the October CMS Ajax framework.

Episode  43  / Duration 17:24  / 
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Making websites with October CMSUpdate October CMS to Laravel 5.5 with Valet

In this episode I'm going to show you how to update October CMS to Laravel 5.5 using the Laravel Valet development environment.

Episode  44  / Duration 13:54  / 
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Making websites with October CMSAjax Image Upload

In this episode I'm going to show you how to upload images from the October CMS frontend with Ajax and also show image previews.

Episode  45  / Duration 12:33  / 
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Making websites with October CMSDeploying To Shared Hosting

In this episode I'm going to show you how to deploy October CMS to a shared hosting using Git FTP

Episode  46  / Duration 25:51  / 
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Making websites with October CMSBetter Links And URLs

In this episode I'm going to show you how you can make better and more complicated links and URLs in October CMS.

Episode  47  / Duration 08:51  / 
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