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This section contains a number of "How To" pages and short guides to a number of different subjects.


Other pages in this section:

  • Installing Local Extensions
  • Making a Resource ContentType
  • Creating a simple menu
  • Upgrading a Bolt 1.x install to 2.x
  • Building Multilingual Websites with Bolt
  • Resetting a password
  • Running Bolt using PHP's built-in web server
  • Performance and finetuning for Bolt websites
  • Making sure .htaccess and mod_rewrite are working as they should
  • Running Multiple Bolt sites from one source directory
  • Setting Up cURL SSL/TLS Certificate Authority Certificates
  • Sorting a ContentType with a 'sortorder'


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  • Getting Started
    • Introduction
    • About Bolt
    • Requirements
    • Installation
    • Install with Composer
    • Updating
    • Screenshots
  • Working with Bolt
    • ContentTypes and Records
    • Content in Templates
    • Taxonomies
    • Relationships
    • Using menus
    • Permissions
  • Field types
    • Common options
    • Text
    • Slug
    • Textarea
    • HTML
    • Markdown
    • Image
    • Imagelist
    • Select
    • Integer
    • Float
    • Checkbox
    • Date
    • Datetime
    • File
    • Filelist
    • Geolocation
    • Video
    • Templateselect
    • Hidden
  • Templating
    • Templates and routing
    • Building templates
    • Record and Records
    • Fetching content
    • Paging content
    • Implementing Search
    • Bolt template tags
  • Extending Bolt
    • Introduction to Bolt Extensions
    • Creating a New Extension
    • The Basics of Extensions
    • Providing New Field Types
    • Testing Your Extensions
    • Writing Unit Tests for Extensions
    • Providing Nut Console Commands
  • Bolt Internals
    • Routing
    • Templating
    • The 'Model'
    • Bootstrapping
    • Debug Bar
    • dump() Twig tag
    • backtrace() Twig tag
    • Container Service References
    • Task Scheduler (cron)
  • Howtos on various subjects
    • Installing Local Extensions
    • Making a Resource ContentType
    • Creating a simple menu
    • Upgrading a Bolt 1.x install to 2.x
    • Building Multilingual Websites with Bolt
    • Resetting a password
    • Running Bolt using PHP's built-in web server
    • Performance and finetuning for Bolt websites
    • Making sure .htaccess and mod_rewrite are working as they should
    • Running Multiple Bolt sites from one source directory
    • Setting Up cURL SSL/TLS Certificate Authority Certificates
    • Sorting a ContentType with a 'sortorder'
  • Other Information
    • The Bolt Manifesto
    • Contributing to Bolt
    • Code Quality
    • Locales
    • Nut (command line utility)
    • Maintenance (offline) mode
    • Credits
    • License
    • Roadmap
    • Our Release Process
    • Advanced installation details
  • End user Manual
    • Creating the first user
    • Login
    • Dashboard
    • Content overview
    • Creating content
    • Editing content
    • ContentTypes
    • Uploaded files
    • Global actions
    • Your Profile
    • Users
    • Field types
  • Bolt core development
    • Core dev related HOWTOs
      • Useful git commands
      • Useful git commands - Advanced
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