@dan Would it be possible to provide another explanatory video for the CMS, especially for the blog setup? Ideally, this could perhaps be based on the blog from Blog It would also be really helpful if it included an explanation of pretty URLs, the correspondin…

I agree. I am totally lost as to how to setup the CMS. I’ve been watching multiple videos but they all seem to be different and the elements in the actual version have nothing to do with those in the videos of just a year ago. I can’t seem to find a video that explains the whole process of setting u…

Very nice of you… I see many having a hard time… The new micro blog was just updated Open it - look at the inspector settings and folder structure After awhile it starts making sense…

Perhaps this will appear in Thom Hogan’s ‘ LittleCMSbook ’ soon

@JohnTC John I am just about to delete a video I created a couple of weeks ago for a friend {i do talk in this), it was not meant for the general use. It starts from a blank edit screen, not even a page, adds title, date, body text and an image. It was a one off single take, no script just straight…

Hi Steve. Yeah I would really appreciate this! Don’t understand what the Dm the link means but thanks!

it just means ill send the link to you not post here, as I said it was a one take recording off the top of my head, not really for general use, ill add the twig code needed as per the video, you can use the date twig code in both pages. If it had been for general use I would have had a script wit…

Well, all sounds like another language to me :stuck_out_tongue: but I appreciate the video… I understand it will help me set up for the new online CMS

not the online version but you need this part anyway, the online version should be easy once this is setup,

you should have a message from me now

ECMS 2.0 Blog Setup Tutorial Request

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dan (Dan) May 27, 2026, 5:15pm 22

@JohnTC, good news, we’ve just published an in-depth video tutorial showing how to get started with Elements CMS 2, check it out here.

Part 2 coming coon!

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