Tutorials

Concrete CMS 9.5 shipped Twig templating, theme skins and a rebuilt marketplace, and most tutorials on the internet still say "concrete5". Everything here is written against a current release and carries the date it was last checked.

Guides

One whole job from start to finish.

• Self-hosting Concrete CMS: a SpinupWP-managed server from blank to live, with cron, mail and backups.
• Upgrading concrete5 8 to Concrete CMS 9: audit, latest 8.5, PHP in stages, the 9.x command-line upgrade, then the theme.

Tutorials

Short how-tos, one task each.

• Installing a Concrete CMS theme: package install, then theme activation, from the Dashboard or the CLI.
• Removing a Concrete CMS theme: switch away, uninstall, then delete, and what happens to the pages.
• Changing the logo in your theme: the three places a logo can come from.
• Theme skins: changing colours: what a skin is, switching one, and the style customizer.
• Creating a custom page template: the template file, the registration, and page types.
• Custom block templates: the Page List block: an alternative view for any core block without touching the core.

Archive

The original Concrete5 Studio tutorials are the theme guides in the list above, rewritten for Concrete CMS 9. If you followed an old link and landed here instead of on an article, that piece was not worth restoring.