Necessary staks
- Foundation 6 stacks + Swatch Pack
- SEO Helper 2 (goEcwid Pro only)
- Limelight Stack + Section Pro (free stacks by BWD)
- Pen Stack (free stacks by Weavers Space)
- Easy CMS or Total CMS
- Ecwid Account
Prepare your project file for publishing
- Upload the cms-data folder you downloaded with this project file to your hosting account.
- In Rapidweaver Enter your domain name into the General and Publishing settings. Complete the publishing settings with your server information.
- Go to the Admin page and open with a double click the Site Style partial at the top of edit mode.
- Locate the CMS core swatch in the Features section, click on it and enter your TCMS license in the inspector. Exit the partial and publish your project file.
- In that same page locate and open the Admin Core Partial. (Right below the yellow shelf stack at the top of the page).
- Enter your TCMS license, hit the register button, exit the partial and preview the page.
- Register your domain with the license (More details here)
- Back to edit mode turn off that register button inside the admin core partial.
- Publish the project file.
This project file must be published in order to work. If you don't publish it first, Rapidweaver preview will not work.
Website name
This value is used through the entire website where the name of your business is needed. It is also used to sign your form auto-responses.
Ecwid Store ID
You can easily find your Store ID at the bottom of your Ecwid control panel.
Home Page Category ID
Enter the Ecwid Category ID of the category you want to display in your home page.
Edit .htaccess file
This step is necessary to have a complete SEO for your store and product pages. Note: if you change the folder name of the store page you will have also to edit the following code accordingly.
1. Copy the following code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^store/.*$ /store/index.php
2. In your Rapidweaver Project File go to publishing settings and click on the Edit .htaccess File Button.
3. Paste the code you just copied in there and click the Save and Publish button. Done.
- Set up blog page
Preview blog-post page
- Open Rapidweaver and navigate to the Blog post page.
- Preview Blog post page.
- Total CMS lightbox will ask you if you want to publish blog posts to the new location, and will show you the URL (with your domain) where your blog posts will be published.
- Click on the submit button.
- Go to your live website and test the blog system, everything should work as expected.
- You must turn on Pretty URLs to index your posts on Google. If you have never done it before follow the following tutorial.
- Set up Landing page
Preview blog-post page
- Open Rapidweaver and navigate to the Blog post page.
- Preview Landing page.
- Total CMS lightbox will ask you if you want to publish blog posts to the new location, and will show you the URL (with your domain) where your landing pages will be published.
- Click on the submit button.
- Go to your live website and test the blog system, everything should work as expected.
- Pretty URLs are not mandatory You probably don't want your landing pages to rank on Google anyway. But why not do yourself a favor and turn them on anyway? It's always better to have clean URLs.
- Set up Pretty URLs
Pretty URLs will make your post URL look nicer removing the ?permalink= part of the link. After you tested the blog system with the defaul settings, you can enable the Pretty URL feature from the stack inspector of the blog post stacks in RW.
- In Rapidweaver navigate to the Blog post page and click on the Blog Post stack
- In the Stack setting sidebar locate the Post URL: option and click on Pretty
- Make sure the .htaccessRule option below is enabled
- Previw the page
- Copy the code and click Submit
- Navigate to the Publishing tab in the Rapidweaver sidebar
- Click on the Edit .htaccess file and paste the code you just copied there.
- Hit Save and you are done.
- Tutorials and Getting Started Guide
Head to the preview website of this project file and click on the Tutorial page. This is a blog repurposed as a tutorial page where you can find the support you are looking for. If you have some more specific questions feel free to get in touch with us via email or in the Weavers.space forum.
- Delete This Setup Tutorial After Setup
You can edit this data at all time from the Settings tab or the Ecwid Settings Tab. Once you go through this initial setup we recommend you to delete it from Rapidweaver. If you are building a website for a client, you don't want the client to easily temper with the Website Settings fields.
- Edit the Admin Menu Structure
When editing the admin menu structure, make sure you give a unique ID to all the related Limelight iframe child stack. Use then that ID as a class for the button that you want to trigger that specific iframe. For instance, if your Limelight unique ID is
home, then assign the Custom classhometo the button in the menu sidebar that you want to trigger the home admin page. - Password Protect with Page Safe Stack
This admin area is not restricted by password
If you have the Page Safe Stack drop one in the admin core partial, so you are sure it will be the same throughout all the admin pages, and they will be all equally protected. Make sure to select the ‘Manage Passcodes with Total CMS’ checkbox and the trick is done. You can enter a password in the password area and consider that a master password. You can than create and manage another "user" password from this admin area under Setting > Password.
- Password Protect with TCMS Protect stack
This admin area is not restricted by password
If you don’t have Page Safe Stack you can follow the same process, but with the TCMS protect stack. The dowside of this is that you won’t have the CMS compatibility. You will be able to change password only within Rapidweaver.
Welcome to your admin area
Store
Blog
Edit Pages
Landing Pages
In this area you can edit and create new landing pages.
Settings
In this area you can edit the general settings of your page, and other data displayed on every page of your website.