An in depth look at building websites with October CMS created by the talented presenter Ivan Dorić.

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Making websites with OctoberCMS Series

This series follows step by step in creating a functional website using October CMS. You'll learn about themes, plugins, components and more.

Part 01 - Installing October CMS

In the first episode you'll be installing October CMS locally on your development machine.

Part 02 - Basic Concepts

Cover some of the basic concepts you should know when using October.

Part 03 - Creating Themes

Themes are the foundation of the front-end and define the entire structure of your website.

Part 04 - Setting Up Laravel Elixir

Optionally, you can install Laravel's build tool called Elixir, we also use Livereload to see changes instantly.

Part 05 - Builder Plugin Overview

Create your first plugin with the Builder plugin. This plugin will act as the custom content type for our website called Movies.

Part 06 - Basic Templating

Back to the theme to make the site look nicer and learn a few tricks along the way.

Part 07 - Displaying Lists and Details

Create a list and detail page for our custom content type Movies.

Part 08 - Slugs And Pagination

Linking pages together and including a pager for navigating page number.

Part 09 - Images And Galleries

Create your very own gallery images and display them on your website.

Part 10 - Relations

Cover the important topic of relationships between models.

Part 11 - Inverse Relations

Comparatively, setting up inverse relationships is equally important.

Part 12 - Repeater field

Use the repeater field for storing data that can be repeated.

Part 13 - Creating Custom Form Widgets

Form widgets let you create custom controls in your back-end area.

Part 14 - Saving Form Widget Data

After creating a form widget, the user input data can be saved to the database.

Part 15 - Creating New Data via Form Widget

Create a new model instance via our form widget.

Part 16 - Creating a Simple Component

October's secret sauce, let's create our first component!

Part 17 - Adding Options to Components

Now we'll add some options to the component to better control the output.

Part 18 - Creating Contact Form

Every website needs a contact form, here we create a form that sends an email using Google's SMTP service.

Part 19 - Form validation

Improve the contact form by adding validation to the input fields.

Part 20 - Frontend Forms

Populating the database with data captured from our front-end form.

Part 21 - Users

Set up user management with registration and sign in forms.

Part 22 - Ajax Form Validation

Returning to form validation, this time with a touch of the AJAX framework.

Part 23 - Extending User Plugin

Adding additional data fields to the user plugin.

Part 24 - Extending User Plugin - Frontend

Capturing user input and saving it to the new fields via the front-end.

Part 25 - NEW! Ajax Form Validation

An overview of the new AJAX form validation features added recently.

Part 26 - Uploading Images From Frontend

How to capture user uploads on the front-end and save them to the database.

Part 27 - Seeding With Faker

Seed the database with dummy data, useful for testing and sample records.

Part 28 - Implement Searching

Implement search on your site with the SiteSearch plugin.

Part 29 - PHP blocks

Use PHP blocks in your October CMS theme to create simple and complex queries and display them on your pages.

Part 30 - Seeding Routes

Seed your database using routes and without losing any data.

Part 31 - Success and Error Form Messages

How to create success and error messages for a contact form.

Part 32 - Groups and Permissions

Create groups for your administrators and limit access to certain areas of your back-end.

Part 33 - Static Pages and Menus

Static pages, and static menus feature that you get from the static pages plugin.

Part 34 - Back-end Lists Deep Dive

Taking a deeper look at backend lists.

Part 35 - Back-end List Filters

Create filters for your backend lists in October CMS.

Part 36 - Relation Manager

How to use Relation Manager used to provide better controls for managing complex model relationships on the backend of your site.

Part 37 - Laravel Mix and Webpack

How you can use Laravel Mix (wrapper around Webpack) to create your asset pipeline in October CMS.

Part 38 - Creating Sitemap.xml

How to generate sitemap.xml file for your October CMS website by hand.

Part 39 - Front-end Filters

Make a frontend filter for our movies using October CMS components system.

Part 40 - Semantic UI

Integrate Semantic UI css framework to our October CMS installation.

Part 41 - Ajax Frontend Filters

Use Octobers Ajax framework to filter our movies by genre and year.

Part 42 - Ajax Frontend Sorting

Use October CMSs Ajax framework to sort the items you are listing.

Part 43 - Ajax Pagination

Implementing Ajax pagination / pager in the front-end.

Part 44 - Update October CMS to Laravel 5.5 with Valet

How to update October CMS to Laravel 5.5 using the Laravel Valet development environment.

Part 45 - Ajax Image Upload

How to upload images from the October CMS frontend with Ajax and also show image previews.

Part 46 - Deploying to Shared Hosting

How to deploy OctoberCMS to a shared hosting using GitFTP.

Part 47 - Better Links And URLs

Make better and more complicated links and URLs in October CMS.