Church Deploy is a robust Symphony CMS ensemble (template)
The base installation of Church Deploy comes with all components. Our hope is to make this modular at some point. We use the term component for a Church Deploy object (in Symphony, objects are called sections). All Church Deploy components have a template XSL file, which lives in the workspace/themes/yourtheme directory, with its component name.
We made an out of the box template for you to work from called anchor in which we use the name "Anchor Church." Church Deloy will use whatever theme that you title active. So if you want to switch templates, simply go to the templates directory and change the folder name. Church Deploy is designed to have all of the core functionalty in the parent project and let your theme template files only make the changes that are unique to your installation, but it isn't limiting in the least.
All of the components we used are free for you to use with Church Deploy as it is a combination of open-source projects. Thank you open source community!
Please write [email protected], IM kirkstrobeck on AIM/Skype, or call (503) 427-8050 if you have any questions.
We are excited to see how you use Church Deploy and how the project grows!
- Tag-based associations create content "meeting points," there aren't really any "pages" per se.
- All content is associated with a
tag. - Tags claim parents, so a second-tier tag is really just claiming a first-tier tag as its parent, but it is organized to communicate content relationships to the user.
- Tags can claim multiple parents, so you can position content in different sections, even groups of contant (if tag A claims B as a parent, then wherever A is shown, B is shown as a sub-page)
- Supports infinite nav levels, whether 3 or 300.
- All content is associated with a
- ID-anchored URLs let you change the readable text and not worry about migration issues.
- Nice URL slugs let you inform the user about the content
- ie.
site/4234/our-big-meeting/could change tosite/4234/fun-times-ahead/without any users lost or confused, as both URLs still function.
- Internal templating, in the Symphony control panel, lets you reorganize content based on your needs. Content can be designed to react to its placement in the templates.
- ie. If an event is in
full-widththen it will have a more detailed and imformative view than the same event listed incolumn-right, the sidebar.
- ie. If an event is in
- Component-based architecture lets you pick and choose your functionality and implementation. It also helps organize code to spot issues more easily.
- Uses Bootstrap for baseline styles and HTML.
- Out of the box template is built with many responsive considerations.
- Retina-ready icon font, and responsimage image baked-in.
- Front-end membership is already in-place, and we hope to enable registration soon.
Use the example organization anchorchurch, which contains a theme and a site project. The theme should be like the anchor theme and the site should be a fork of Church Deploy. This will enable you to push updates directly to your server by installing git via SSH and using git pull to update your live site. The site project is your theme combined with the core Church Deploy ensemble.
Once you fork Church Deploy, you can update it
git remote add upstream https://github.com/churchdeploy/churchdeploy.git
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/master
git push
To add your theme to your fork in the themes directory as active
git submodule add -f https://github.com/anchorchurch/anchor.git workspace/themes/active/
To clone a site project, remember to get the submodule by using the recursive flag
git clone https://github.com/anchorchurch/churchdeploy.git --recursive
- PHP 5.3
- PHP's LibXML module, with the XSLT extension enabled (--with-xsl)
- MySQL 5.0 or later
- Apache webserver with mod_rewrite
- Mac OS X
- Local server: MAMP Pro - MAMP is free, pro is $59.00
- MySQL: Sequel Pro - Donationware
- Code editor: Sublime 2 - Free demo, $59.00 to buy
- FTP: Transmit
Think of Content > Tags as Pages. A tag is a meeting place for content of all kinds. When the content comes together (has the same tag) then it gets displayed according to Structure > Layouts, which can be specified in the tag.
If a field says (internal) then it won't show on the page, it's for internal reference only.
All text areas support Markdown .. its awesome :)
Go to http://your-localhost/toolkit/images/ to add images for use in text fields while utilizing responsimage.
Cron jobs need to be added to use twitter, vimeo, and ustream .. see component documentation below for details. The cron job will push the data into the backend CMS automatically.
Get your auth token by going to System > Authors > Your-name, then check the box next to
ie. Allow remote login via http://atheycreek.com/symphony/login/725e2ffa/
725e2ffa is your auth token to use in the cron jobs below.
Have a bug? Please create an issue here on GitHub that conforms with necolas's guidelines.
https://github.com/churchdeploy/churchdeploy/issues
Cron job
curl http://your-server.com/symphony/extension/xmlimporter/importers/run/twitter/?auth-token=725e2ffa
Blueprints > XML Importers > Twitter and check the radio button "Is unique" in the ID row under Destination
This will update Content > Twitter
Cron job
curl http://your-server.com/symphony/extension/xmlimporter/importers/run/vimeo/?auth-token=725e2ffa
Blueprints > XML Importers > Vimeo and check the radio button "Is unique" in the ID row under Destination
This will update Content > Videos
Cron job
curl http://your-server.com/symphony/extension/xmlimporter/importers/run/ustream/?auth-token=725e2ffa
Blueprints > XML Importers > UStream and check the radio button "Is unique" in the Name row under Destination
This will update Structure > Status > ustream-status
We make no assumptions about how you will use Church Deploy. It is up to you to craft whatever solution is best for your use-case. We are doing our best to keep the core robust and controllable, so you can enable or disable different components.