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Layout & modules

Layout and modules settings

From this menu you will be able to control your website layout settings, define image sizes, and control every single page element that may appear on your website.

To access layout and modules page from the secondary administrative menu select Preferences -> Layout & modules.

A new page containing detailed in element settings page will load.

Modules

Modules extend the capabilities of Vivvo giving the software new functionality. A Module is a piece of content that can be displayed anywhere that your template allows.

In this section you will be offered to define general modules options.

• Friendly URL - This is feature which allows you to create search engine friendly URLs for your categories, pages and articles. In order to do this please turn on the feature.

  

• Enable archive view - The archive viewer allows content to be viewed by selecting the day. It also provides a monthly calendar view that users can use to navigate through content.

  To view the archive by date, select the date in the calendar. Clicking on a date in the monthly calendar view shows the content for that date. Users can navigate to different months using arrows beside the month's name in the calendar display. The current date will be highlighted in the calendar.

  

• Enable tags - Select if you want o enable Tags Module. You can find more info about Tags options and usage in the Articles and Tags section of this user manual.

  

• Enable feed - Check if you want to allow your articles to be shared via RSS.

  

• Enable search - Give your visitors the opportunity to search your website. Search box, by default will appear under the horizontal navigation menu as shown below.

  

• Enable user - This option allows you to globally set whether visitors to your site can register for a user account. If the Yes radio button is chosen, the login form will include the prompt new user to register! If the No radio button is set, no option to register is presented.

  

• Enable author page - Define if your author’s page will be accessible for your visitors. For more details go to Article preferences settings.

  

• Enable Vivvo comments - Set this option to allow your website users to post their comments. If the general comment option is turned off individual settings have no affect on the output. Comments will be unavailable.

  

• Enable plaintext - If you or your visitors need to have your articles plain text formatted, turn this option on! The Plain link will be visible at the front end of your web site, by default in footer section.

  

• Enable caching - Check if you want blocks of outputs to be cached. Caching will enable your content to load as much as 100 times faster than by going through the process of dynamically generating the content.

  It is highly recommended for servers with high load to use the Cashing option in order to achieve optimal speed and performance. Using Vivvo 4.0 it is possible to run up to 500,000 articles on your web site!

  

• Cache time period - Define Caching interval in seconds.

  

• Enable email features - Use this feature to enable sending an article via e-mail, for reporting bad comments, etc...

  

Layout settings

Vivvo is built on a multiple-layouts basis. It means that in order to make your site look different you have only to switch active layout. Presently there are four default layouts supported by Vivvo 4.0 but you can create as many as you want yourself or taking advantage of our web-design services.

In order to change the design of your site you have to edit the corresponding layout templates. Since Vivvo CMS designs are built on CSS files, you can customize every page element by editing single file.

Main layout styles are divided in three sections - home page, category pages and article display pages.

From the dropdown menu select the most appropriate option for each component. In this section you really need to experiment to get the best results!

Image size settings

In this panel you will be offered to predefine article image sizes.

Define maximum image width and height visible in the latest news section. The image uploaded will be automatically resized proportionally to these sizes.

There are two types of article images, full article image and article summary image.

You may define up to three different sizes of these images (Large, medium and small)

Remember to optimize your images before you upload them to your web site. Vivvo resizing component will only scale down your image to fit into predefined values. So, when you resize your image on your web page, you have done nothing to the file size.