How to install OctoberCMS plugins
October CMS Plugin is containing various logical aspects like components and settings so you can include them and start using there functinality directly.
Plugins has collection of components which you can use in cms pages
to build your frontend interface.
These Component houses businesss logic. For ex. insert, update, delte logic, Ajax callback handeling, conditional logic, google maps etc.
Installing free plugins
Its good idea to check out free plugins, if they are fit for your need just use them. If you need more features in your plugins then you can buy premium plugins and install them.
Let's start with installing simple Rainlab.Sitemap
free plugin which allows user to generate sitemap.xml
for SEO purpose.
1. Open Backend
To install plugin you need to login to your backend. User
should have proper rights
to change/install plugins
.
You can go to admin panel
of your website by adding /backend
to your website's root site url.
[ if you manually configured different backend url then use it, In most cases its /backend
by default ]
https://yoursite.com/backend
it will redirect you to backend module https://yoursite.test/backend/backend/auth/signin
that is completely fine
Use your backend credentials
to login to your backend. on successful login you will be greated with dashboard
.
2. Check Installed Plugins
Once you successfully login you can go to plugin settings
by main navigation bar on the top
Settings > SYSTEM (section from left side menu ) > Update & Plugins
After navigating to this location you can see right side, there is plugin list which shows each plugin's name and description.
if you already installed any
plugin
you can see list of installed plugins here, to enable/disable one of already installed plugin you need to go toManage plugins
You can
enable or disable
any plugins from here. you can alosstop it's future updates
from here.
3. Installing Plugin
To install new plugin you need to go to Install Plugin Tab
Navigate to this setting
Settings > SYSTEM (section from left side menu ) > Update & Plugins
Then you need to click install plugins
button from right side.
It will bring you to install products page
now by default PLUGINS
tab will be selected.
To get proper plugin name and details you can visit OctoberCMS Plugins it will show you plugin details and name of plugins which you can enter in search box to intall it.
i.e. we are going to install theme called sitemap
theme details : Rainlab.Sitemap
Now search name sitemap
in searchbox it will show respective plugins, you can click on it
or use arrow key to navigate to that plugin
and press enter
or click
on it.
It will download and stat installing plugin to you October CMS website.
Once Installation is done you can see plugin in
installed plugin
list.
For Power users, You can directly install
plugin
fromcomman line
if you happen to know plugin code for thissitemap
plugin itsRainlab.Sitemap
.
php artisan plugin:install Rainlab.Sitemap
4. Installation Complete and Checking options of sitemap
Each plugin has different functionality and different sets of options. This sitemap has its own setting to set links on sitemap.xml
for other plugins it may have different setting
on different page
Tip: Read out plugin document page how to configure and use plugin from directly author's / OctoberCMS's Plugin's page in our case its Rainlab.sitemap which can show us how to use
sitemap
plugin.
5. Using plugin components
sitemap
plugin do not have any components
but some plugins do have components as you can see in screen-shot blog
plugin has post
component. So, we will learn how to use there components in next tutorial posts.
We will cover how to edit plugins in upcoming next tutorials posts.
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