The video tutorial is a great place to start if you and new to Perch or to CMS in general. These videos take you through the process – right from running the compatibility test on your site to installing add-ons.
Most of these videos take a static HTML website as their starting point, so you can see how Perch can be added to an existing site without needing to make many changes.
These videos are all new for Perch 2. If you are using Perch 1 the video tutorial can be found here.
The Perch Server Compatibility Test checks that your server or local development environment can run Perch.
This video walks you through the Perch install process.
Getting started editing content with Perch using the included templates.
Creating your own templates so that you can have the exact mark-up that you need for your site.
If you have a block of content that you want to repeat – with the user able to save and add another – you need a repeating region.
If you have some content you want to output before or after a repeating region, use perch:before and perch:after.
A more complex template example which uses Perch Conditionals and demonstrates the concept of repeating an ID in a template to reuse the content.
Creating a region that can be added to lots of pages – but the content only entered once.
Using and editing the default map template so it works with our site.
How to use the included search functionality to search your site and an explanation of the basic search template.
An explanation about how master pages work in Perch to enable editors to add pages via the Perch interface.
The first in a series of tutorials about working with Blog. In this video see how quick and easy it is to get a blog up and running with our example pages and the Quill Feather CSS.
How to use .htaccess and mod_rewrite for friendly URLs to your posts.
