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Gavin Pickin

December 18, 2017

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At Ortus Solutions, we love the holidays, and we wanted to gift you a gift of developer productivity, we will share a few tips and tricks that will keep giving all year around. In this series we'll be giving you 12 ContentBox tips. Keep your eye out for other 12 tips of Christmas series on our blog, including a new one this year, 12 modules of Christmas on ForgeBox.

Day 5 - Admin Bar - We have added a new Admin Bar that can help you manage and edit content from the front end website. This Admin Bar can be enabled/disabled from the ContentBox Settings panel and will only show up if it meets certain criteria.

UI AdminBar

This Admin Bar can be enabled/disabled from the ContentBox Settings panel and will only show up if it meets the following rules:

  1. You are logged in
  2. You have ANY of following permissions: CONTENTBOX_ADMIN,PAGES_ADMIN,PAGES_EDITOR,ENTRIES_ADMIN,ENTRIES_EDITOR

The admin bar will give you the following features:

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  • Visit admin
  • Edit visited content
  • Edit custom fields
  • Edit SEO data
  • View content history
  • View Hits
  • View page layout
  • Visual Draft Mode
  • Visual Publish in Future

Hopefully, this admin bar can help you manage and edit content in a more visual manner.

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