A brief overview of addons and themes developed for legacy Concrete5.6 and earlier.
A demonstration of doing AJAX transactions with c5.6 , the practical side of a HowTo. Largely obsolete in current Concrete CMS. The HowTo can still be found as a tutorial in the depths of the Concrete CMS legacy documentation.
A job to run the c5,6 built in database backup. Such a backup strategy is no longer practical. Databases are too big and complicated to run a backup in-site using PHP.
A sophisticated site backup application for making a backup of all files and the database. Backup Voodoo got round the limitations of PHP and web servers by breaking the backup into a series of slices. Both the number of files and the complexity of databases in current sites makes a similar strategy no longer practical.
A generic AJAX loaded for concrete blocks. It worked by providing custom templates through the companion addon Blocks By Ajax Templates1. Now built in to Universal Content Puller.
Primes the Concrete cache by filling it with key pages. Similar functionality is now provided by Cache Warmer.
Equivalents to the core Content and HTML blocks with cache disabled. No longer relevant as block cache settings can be managed from the Advanced section of block design.
A job to empty the cache. Similar functionality is now provided by Extreme Clean.
A Tetris-like game built in to a Concrete block. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
A grid filling game built in to a Concrete block. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Show site configuration info. Similar functionality is now provided by Ele-PHP-ant Info.
Show site constants info. Similar functionality is now provided by Ele-PHP-ant Info.
Manage and edit the core list of countries and states. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Updated for the current Concrete CMS and available as Editor Comment.
Updated for the current Concrete CMS and extended with further cleaning functionality. Available as Extreme Clean.
Manage and use a list of national Flags. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
A poor-mans-cron to piggyback jobs onto web requests. Now superseded by Concrete CMS core jobs and subsequently tasks scheduling functionality.
Edit page attributes from a block in the front end of a page. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Add a file manager popup button in a block. Advanced permissions made this largely irrelevant. Some of the functionality is now incorporated into Snapshot.
Manage a fileset from an in-page block. Advanced permissions made this largely irrelevant. Some of the functionality is now incorporated into Snapshot.
Sort, paginate and edit image galleries and other lists. Advanced galleries such as Omni Gallery make this irrelevant.
A drag & drop file uploader block. Similar functionality and more is now incorporated into Snapshot.
Image list templates for the List Files From Set addon. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Attaches touch/swipe functionality to existing galleries. Most image galleries now incorporate swipe compatibility, so this clever little addon became irrelevant. Omni Gallery has great swipe capability through several of the Display widgets.
Job to re-enable jobs that are stuck running. Now superseded by Concrete CMS core functionality.
An in-block Javascript development system incorporating a syntax editor, defensive wrappers and asset loading through JQuickie Bundles1. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Intelligently show the time a page was Last Updated. Updated and available as Last Updated.
Load the jQuery UI JavaScript bundle. Not particularly relevant to current Concrete CMS, but could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
A macro language for extracting and manipulating data for showing information in blocks and many other purposes. Supplemented by many further extensions: Black Magic Data, Magic Data Commerce, Magic Data Developer, Magic Data Forms, Magic Data Forms CSV, Magic Data On Block Load. Magic Data Symbols1, Magic Data Templates1, Magic Job, Magic Yogurt (theme), Sorcerer's Gallery, Sorcerer's Map, Uber List, Uber Filter.
This could potentially be ported to current ConcreteCMS, but the overhead of doing so and maintaining the code is just not worth it.
Show a page name as an in page heading and automatically fill in the page description from page content. Showing a page name as an in page heading is now provided by the core Page Title block.
Provide a list of text and links, then automatically add the links to matching content text across a site. This could potentially be ported to current ConcreteCMS.
A robust, flexible and easy to use tabs and accordion addon, ported forward and maintained through to the current Concrete CMS. See Magic Tabs.
Provide a list of terms and tips, then automatically attach the tips as popups to matching content terms across a site. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Toggle between blocks of content. Functionality now incorporated into Magic Tabs.
Jobs to put a site into maintenance mode and take a site out of maintenance mode. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Integrate Universal Content Puller and Magic Data with the Oembed addon.
Use the keyboard 'Esc' key as a site wide panic button or add a visible Panic Button to pages. Hit 'Esc' or click the button and off you go anywhere on the web.
Show anm area from a parent page. Now incorporated into Universal Content Puller.
Show phpinfo. Similar functionality is now provided by Ele-PHP-ant Info.
Translate text to Pirate Speak. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Provide an in-page button to run a job. Now superseded by Tasks. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS task system.
Show page attributes. The core attribute display block made this redundant.
Show site log entries in a block. No current equivalent, but the core dashboard Logs page has a considerably more advanced search. The addon PHP Debug Bar for Concrete CMS incorporates similar functionality.
Show site query info. Similar functionality is now provided by Ele-PHP-ant Info. The addon PHP Debug Bar for Concrete CMS also incorporates similar functionality.
Show current call stack info. Superseded by Whoops built into the core.
Redirect to another page or any URL when this block becomes visible. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
Some templates for the core Search block. Updated for current Concrete CMS as Enlil Search Templates. See also Search++ for a much enhanced search system.
Clear out old session files. This may still be relevant to some environments and could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS and updated to work as a Task.
A Magic Data enabled gallery and slideshow block. Now superseded by Omni Gallery.
A Magic Data enabled Google Map block. Would require Magic Data to be updated!
A color picker widget implementing the Spectrum Color Picker prior to the current Concrete CMS core (the old core color picker was not very good).
Show info about the MySQL database and environment. Similar functionality is now provided by Ele-PHP-ant Info.
An alternative way of structuring and editing content. Now superseded by the much improved functionality of the core content Rich Text Editor.
An in-block LESS/CSS development system incorporating a syntax editor, less compiler and asset loading through Style Quickie Bundles1. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS.
In-page syntax highlighting applied to snippets of code in content blocks and other blocks. Fully updated and enhanced for the current Concrete CMS as Syntax Anywhere.
Added convenient File Manager, Sitemap and eCommerce quick link icons to the toolbar. Now largely superseded by core Concrete CMS functionality.
A list building enhancement of Magic Data. Would require Magic Data to be updated! Much list building and display functionality is provided by Universal Content Puller.
An in-page filtering enhancement of Uber List. Would require Uber List and Magic Data to be updated! Much list building, filtering a and display functionality is provided by Universal Content Puller.
The original Universal Content Puller provides a simple unified interface to pulling in content from& many sources including other pages, other sites and RSS feeds. This has been extended into the current Universal Content Puller with a massively flexible and extensible architecture of sources, transformations and displays.
The original addon was extended through Universal Content Puller Developer, Universal Content Puller Formigo Containers Wrapper, Universal Content Puller Sources1, Universal Content Puller Sources2.
A highly configurable shipping module for the original eCommerce addon. This could potentially be ported to current Concrete CMS to work with Community Store.
concrete5 5.6 and earlier are end-of-life. Sales from the legacy marketplace have now ended.
If you require any of these addons for your legacy concrete5 site, please contact me directly.