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Here we explain the tags that are used in the default templates that are specific to templates in CMS Made Simple. The rest of the templates are just pure HTML. You can read more about that in the .

Page title

<title>{sitename} - {title}</title>

For each page using these tags in a template the tags are replaced with the site name you specify in Site Admin » Global settings and the title you specify when you add/edit each page.

Read more about the {sitename} and {title} tags in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Metadata

{metadata}

This tag adds to your page any metadata that you have specified in Site Admin » Global settings and also page specific metadata that you can add under the Options tab when adding/editing a page.

It is also used for knowing the base folder for your site when using pretty URLs. So don't remove this if you use Pretty URLs!

Read more about the {metadata}tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Stylesheets (deprecated)

{stylesheet}

This tag links to all style sheets (CSS) that you have attached to a template. It means that you only have to add this tag once and all attached style sheets will be linked automatically.

Read more about the {stylesheet} tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Stylesheets

{cms_stylesheet}

This tag is the newer version of the tag above. The tag links to all style sheets (CSS) that you have attached to a template. It means that you only have to add this tag once and all attached style sheets will be linked automatically.

The new tag allows you to use smarty variables like [[$red]] to indicate a color, and one change will change it througout your layout. The new tag requires that [[root_url]]/ be put in front of images, as the stylesheets are cached.

Read more about the {cms_stylesheet} tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Relational links

{cms_selflink dir="start" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="prev" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="next" rellink=1}

These are relational links for interconnections between pages, which is good for accessibility and Search Engine Optmization

Read more about the {cms_selflink} tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Stylesheets (deprecated)

{stylesheet}

This tag links to all style sheets (CSS) that you have attached to a template. It means that you only have to add this tag once and all attached style sheets will be linked automatically.

Read more about the {stylesheet} tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Stylesheets

{cms_stylesheet}

This tag is the newer version of the tag above. The tag links to all style sheets (CSS) that you have attached to a template. It means that you only have to add this tag once and all attached style sheets will be linked automatically.

The new tag allows you to use smarty variables like [[$red]] to indicate a color, and one change will change it througout your layout. The new tag requires that [[root_url]]/ be put in front of images, as the stylesheets are cached.

Read more about the {cms_stylesheet} tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Relational links

{cms_selflink dir="start" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="prev" rellink=1}
{cms_selflink dir="next" rellink=1}

These are relational links for interconnections between pages, which is good for accessibility and Search Engine Optmization

Read more about the {cms_selflink} tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Breadcrumbs

{breadcrumbs starttext='You are here' root='Home' delimiter='»'}

Breadcrumbs is a path to the current page. In the default templates we have chosen to put the text 'You are here' before the path and force 'Home' to always be the root in the path, even if it isn't. With the delimiter parameter you can select the delimiter that separates entries in the path.

Read more about the {breadcrumbs} tag in Extensions » Tags in the Admin Panel.

Navigation

{menu template='simple navigation.tpl' collapse='1'}

This is how you insert a menu where you want it to appear. Like the {search} tag, this is actually just a wrapper tag, as the Menu Manager is a module.

In the default templates the menu manager template that is used for the menus are stored in files. That's why you see the .tpl extension in the template parameter. But you can easily import menu templates to the database and edit them directly in the Admin Panel. Then you simply omit the .tpl extension in the template parameter.

Read more about the Menu Manager module in Extensions » Modules in the Admin Panel.

Previous/next links

{anchor anchor='main' text='^ Top'}
{cms_selflink dir="previous" label="Previous page: "}
{cms_selflink dir="next"}

Some more internal links. These are using the dir parameter to link to the previous and next pages in the page hierarchy (separators and section headers will be omitted as they are no pages).