Container Check

The dashboard icons for Concrete CMS v9 containers are not particularly illustrative. Container Check helps you visualize container structure by providing a rough preview of the layouts provided by containers in a Bootstrap based theme.

Container Check is most illustrative for Bootstrap based themes, but can work with other theme frameworks and may require adaptation to do so.

Once installed, a dashboard page can be found at 

  • Dashboard > Pages & Themes > Container Check.

In the dashboard menu, select 'Pages & Themes' and then Container Check within that group.

Preview of container structure is approximate and depends on:

  1. Container being structured with <div> elements
  2. Theme based on Bootstrap or compatible theme grid
  3. Width of the window! (for responsive containers)

In addition to providing a dashboard page to preview containers, Container Check optionally integrates with Frontend Dashboard to provide the similar information in a block and with Container Magic to provide preview information on additional containers installed.

View settings

Container Check

jl_container_check - v9.0.2

A rough preview of the layouts provided by containers in a concrete CMS theme

Single Pages
  • Container Check /dashboard/​pages/​container_check A rough preview of the layouts provided by containers in a Bootstrap 5 based theme

Frontend Dashboard

jl_theme_dashboard - v9.0.3

A frontend theme styled after the Concrete CMS dashboard and integrated with many dashboard features. Automatically adapts for the v8 or v9 dashboard depending on the Concrete core version

Block Types Page Templates
  • Right Sidebar 4
  • Right Sidebar 5
  • Three Columns
  • Two Columns
Single Pages
  • Frontend Dashboard /dashboard/​frontend_dashboard A frontend theme styled after the concrete5 dashboard.
Themes
  • A frontend theme styled after the Concrete CMS dashboard and integrated with many dashboard features. Automatically adapts for the v8 or v9 dashboard depending on the Concrete core version

Container Magic

jl_container_magic - v9.0.8

Provide containers to themes that don't have any. Provide extra containers to themes that already do.

Containers
  • Responsive Grid of Four
  • Responsive Grid of Four by Two
  • Responsive Grid of Six
  • Responsive Grid of Twelve by Three
  • Responsive Grid of Twelve by Four
  • Left Sidebar 3
  • Left Sidebar 3 with gutter
  • Left Sidebar 4
  • Left Sidebar 4 with gutter
  • Left Sidebar 5
  • Highlight Stripe
  • Right Sidebar 3
  • Right Sidebar 3 with gutter
  • Right Sidebar 4
  • Right Sidebar 4 with gutter
  • Right Sidebar 5
  • Three Column
  • Two Column
  • Two Column Condensed
  • Two Column Highlight
  • Two Column and Sidebar
  • Single Column Condensed
  • Single Column
  • Single Column Condensed More
Single Pages
  • Container Magic /dashboard/​pages/​container_magic Configure styling of containers provided through Container Magic.

Additional Pages

If you are building in-site documentation for your customers, have a look at the Frontend Dashboard theme.

Container Check requires Concrete CMS core version 9+ and is not compatible with v8 sites.