In this episode of making websites with October CMS I want you to get familiar with some of the basic concepts of this amazing CMS.

In this episode we are going to go through backend of October, create pages in backend and in our code editor. I'm going to explain how you can use partials, and content.

Then we are going to install a blog plugin and then I'm going to show you the power of October components, and how to create blog post list and a single blog post.

Also you will see how easy it is to install plugins and update October CMS.

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.

Basic Concepts

I hope that by watching this episode you will get to know true power of Middleman. As you will see there is very little here that you have to do by hand, Middleman does most of the heavy lifting for you.

In this episode we are going to install our first Middleman extension or plugin, also you will learn how to use Middlemans create command to generate new articles for you. We are also going to list those articles on our front page and link them to the article pages.

In this episode we are going to install a blog, generate some articles and list out those articles on our front page.

Installing a Blog and Creating Articles

In Middleman you will call this blog, but if you are coming from WordPress world you can look at those blogs as different custom post types for your Middleman site. As you will see every blog can have different front matter - or custom fields assigned to them. This way you can section out your content really well and keep organised while doing development.

In this video you will learn how to make another blog - or article type with Middleman. Also I will show you how to make article generators for those article types.