1.2 — The dashboard
After signing in you land on the dashboard — your operational launchpad. Across the top: the language picker, a light/dark toggle, and your account menu (open it to sign out). Down the left is the navigation rail.
Tiles group everything you manage: Configuration, Access, Content, Taxonomy, Media, and Newsletter — each with a live count.
2.1 — The article list
Select Articles in the navigation rail. From the list you can:
- Search by title.
- Filter by category, or narrow to published / featured only.
- Toggle Published and Editor's choice per row.
- Edit or delete from each row.
- Page through results; switch the working language.
- Start a new article with New Article.
2.2 — Creating an article
The form is organised around your site's languages. Translatable text fields appear once per active language — an Article Title in English and one in Chinese, each tagged with its language; likewise Subtitle and Description.
As you type the title, the Slug (web-address fragment) is generated automatically — Sample Article Title → sample-article-title. You can adjust it; it must be a valid web-address format.
Select Create Article when done; Reset clears the form.
2.3–2.4 — Editing & deleting
Editing
Open an article's edit action to load it with its current values. Same form as create, pre-filled. Make changes and select Update Article — only what you changed is saved.
Deleting
The delete action shows a confirmation dialog first, telling you whether anything else is linked (e.g. "1 linked record will be affected").
2.5 — Translating content
Most text can be translated per language, in two places:
- In the article form — each translatable field shows once per language, so you write English and Chinese side by side.
- From a tag or category chip — each shows a small pencil; select it to translate that item's name across all languages.
In the panel, an administrator sees every active language editable. Edit and Apply; the change saves with the article. Change nothing and the save button stays inactive.
4.1–4.2 — Creating users
From Access → Users, create accounts and open existing ones. A new user gets a full name, email, and password, then one or more roles (with optional direct permissions for finer control). They sign in with the email and password you set.
5.1–5.2 — Roles & permissions
Roles (Access → Roles) each carry a short description — from full administrators (who manage everything, including users and permissions) down to editors limited to content, or even content in a specific language.
Permissions are the individual capabilities a role is built from — managing articles, media, users, and so on. A role's permission set is exactly what its users can do, nothing more.
5.3 — A language-restricted editor
The clearest way to understand roles is to follow one: an Editor limited to Chinese content. This single setting reshapes the whole CMS for that person — the interface adapts to match exactly what they're allowed to do.
A smaller dashboard. Compare with the administrator dashboard earlier: the navigation rail shows only Dashboard, Categories, Articles, Tags, Gallery — no Access, Configuration, Pages, or Newsletter. Only the Content and Taxonomy tiles appear.
5.3 — What they can & can't do
