The Perch Video Tutorial

The following videos are designed to walk you through the Perch basics. We will be adding further videos demonstrating some of the more advanced features of Perch.

Chapter One – Perch Basics

1. The Server Compatibility Test – running the test to make sure that your server supports the basic Perch requirements
2. Installing Perch – step by step through the install process
3. Your first content – editing basic content with Perch
4. Creating templates – the basics of Perch content template creation
5. Repeating Regions – working with repeated areas of content
6. Using suppress to create an order by field – allowing editors to set the order of content
7. Displaying content with perch:before and perch:after – how to use these conditional tags in your templates
8. Contact details – creating a contact details template, using the perch:if tags
9. Shared regions – updating data in one region updates all identical regions around the site
10. Google maps – adding a Google map to your site
11. Using Search – adding basic search functionality to your site

Chapter Two – Official Apps

1. Perch Pages – how to enable the adding of new pages via the Perch interface
2. Perch Forms – how to create forms to capture information from visitors and store or forward it via email
3. Perch Blog – setting up a blog
4. Perch Blog custom output – displaying blog posts on your homepage using perch_blog_custom()