The Admin menu

The Admin menu is the control center of the system. All CMS actions are controlled via this menu. It only appears when you are logged in.

The admin menu appears at the top of the browser window as a dark bar with a light font. It is (usually) fixed in position, so it does not scroll. Under most of the menu items, there are additional sub-items that become visible when you move the mouse over them (or tap them on a touch screen).

Figure: The Admin menu (standard)

Preview || Edit

This menu item acts as a switch. If you are in Edit mode, i.e., editing the page contents, then Preview appears as a label. A click on it switches to preview mode and the caption changes to Edit. CMSimple_XH normally displays the website in both modes, almost as the page visitor sees it. Only in edit mode, an additional editor appears in the content area.

Pages

This menu item calls the page management. This allows you to create, delete, rename or move content pages. By default, the page management is realized by the Pagemanager plugin. The way the pages are arranged here is how they appear in the navigation menu on the website.

Files

This menu item has three sub-items: Images, Downloads and Media. Clicking on one of these four menu items switches to a file manager that opens either the userfiles folder or one of its subfolders. By default, the Filebrowser plugin is active as the file manager. Using the Filebrowser, various folder or file operations are possible.

Settings

This menu item leads to an overview page concerning various system settings. Below this menu item, there is a whole series of sub-items that also lead to system settings.

Plugins

This menu item opens a list of all installed plugins. Its sub-items lead to the respective plugin with its respective setting options.

Logout

This menu item ends the current session. You will be logged out and possibly backup copies of the content will be created.

Other menu items

Depending on the state of the system or the plugins used, other menu items may appear in the Admin menu. For example, a note about possible updates may appear here.