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Overview
  • Developers
  • Content designers
  • Designers
  • Contributing
  • Credits System
  • Accessibility
  • Governance
Microsites
Main site
GitHub
  • Microsites
  • Proposition
  • Roles and permissions
  • Features
    • Appearance
    • Editorial features
    • Pages
    • Directories
    • Events
    • News
    • Blogs
    • Media
    • Taxonomy vocabularies and terms
  • How-tos
    • Find your way around
    • Create fancy layouts
    • Domain aliases
    • Manage microsite editors and admins
    • Enable / disable content types on the site (microsite admin)
    • Site settings (microsite admin)
    • Menus
    • Create and delete a microsite
    • Install and update LocalGov Microsites.
    • Add a custom theme
Alpha This documentation is a work in progress

Overview of Features

Multiple microsites served from a single code and database. The sites can live on individual domains, be managed by different teams and have distinct visual identities.

Content

  • Pages
  • Events
  • Directories
  • News
  • Blogs

Flexible layouts

Multicolumn layouts and rich content available on each page type.

  • One, two or three column layouts, with an option of widths and colour schemes.
  • Rich content eg:
    • Accordion
    • Call out box
    • Video etc ...

Read: how to create fancy layouts

Site appearance

Each microsite can have a distinct visual appearance.

The Microsite admin can use the Site design user interface (UI) to set up the site's branding: including colours, fonts and logos to be set as well as header and footer content.

For more complex layouts, the site design can be quickly changed by creating a child theme of localgov_microsites_base.

Read: Appearance

Site settings

The Microsite admin has access to the Site settings panel, where they can install the right set of features for the site.

Technical

Modules in the localgov ecosystem are extended in localgov_microsites_group to make them compatible with group, and add addtional features.

For example:

Events: localgov_events is extended in localgov_microsites_group:localgov_microsite_events to

  • Enable events as Group content
  • Set the correct permissions
  • Enable the additional banner and rich content fields
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