Alchemy CMS Guides

These guides are designed to make you familiar in working with the open source Content Management System Alchemy CMS v2.4.0

1.) Start here

Getting Started

Everything you need to know to install and create your first Alchemy CMS project.

How to work with Alchemy CMS

Best practises for working on individual projects with Alchemy CMS

Alchemy´s Architecture

How Alchemy CMS is working.

Pages

What are pages and how do they work.

Page layouts

What are page layouts and how do they work.

Cells

What are page-cells and how do they work.

Elements

What are elements and how do they work.

Essences

What are essences and how do they work.

Configure Alchemy

How to change Alchemy´s configuration options and what do they mean.

3.) Customization guides

Create Page Layouts

How to create page layouts.

Create Elements

How to create elements.

Create Essences

How to create essences.

Create Modules

How to create custom modules.

Render images

How to work with images and use the powerful Fleximage templates.

Customizing the Richtext Editor

Learn how to customize the TinyMCE richtext editor.

Sending mails

How to use the build-in messages mailer to send emails via a contact form.

4.) Deployment

Deploying on RailsHoster

How to deploy your Alchems site on RailsHoster.

5.) Management

Upgrading Alchemy

Learn how to upgrade Alchemy to newest version