Rubedo is a multisite Web content management solution (websites factory). Lay down a common base, manage an unlimited number of websites from a single management platform, model and configure a set of site templates and industrialize your roll outs to optimize your costs.

1. RUBEDO CMS
Multisite factory features
How to create multi websites with Rubedo CMS
November 2013
Rubedo 2.0.0

2. Rubedo : a multisite CMS
A configuration wizard support the easy creation of new websites in
Rubedo back-end.
All the sites can be managed through the same instance of Rubedo. Only
one Rubedo plaftorm is necessary to manage several websites.
Thanks to this multisite feature, administration of websites is centralized,
while their daily management can be delegated to functional
administrators. This is a multi-admin mode. Right management lets
each administrator or webmaster manage his very own site only.
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3. Rubedo : a multisite CMS
Dealing with multi websites, the followings can be shared within the same
instance of Rubedo :
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Taxonomy (contents and assets classification)
Content and media types
Contents
Assets
Queries
Users and User groups
Workspaces
According to need, these elements can be shared between the websites,
or restricted to a specific website.
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4. Log in Rubedo back-end
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5. Open the Rubedo Start menu, Studio features and Sites application
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6. « Sites » application lists the existing websites. This application lets
you create, delete or modify websites.
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7. Rubedo CMS offers a 3-step website creation wizard.
Step 1 : When you add a new website, you can create :
- a blank site
- a site using an existing site as a model
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8. Step 2 : to create a new site, you must specify the domain name of this site.
You can also choose the graphic theme of the new site, and specify the
languages.
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9. Rubedo : a multisite CMS
Focus on themes and design :
– Each website can have its own graphic theme or share it with other sites.
– Different themes can be stored in Rubedo.
– In the back-end, « Sites » application lets you select the theme you want to
use for a specific website, and « Custom themes » application allows you to
create your own graphic themes.
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10. Step 3 : Specify the title of your website and its description. You can also add
keywords to define the content of your website
The default description will be displayed by search engines. The keywords will
improve Search Engine Optimization.
Click on « Create this site » to complete the wizard.
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11. You new website is now available in the « Sites » application.
Its description, graphic theme, keywords, languages… can be modified.
External API keys for Google Analytics, Disqus and Google Maps are also
available through the « Sites » application.
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12. Once a new site is created…
You can modify and preview it thanks to the following applications :
– Page masks
• To modify the different page masks or templates of you site.
– Pages
• To modify existing pages or create new ones.
– Preview
• To preview your website on different devices.
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13. The "Page masks" application allows to consult and modify the
different rendering templates available in front office, and to
duplicate existing masks, possibly from one site to another
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14. In the « Pages » application, you can access the tree view of the different sites
maintained on the platform :
• 3 pages are created by default for a blank site,
• All the pages of the site used as a model, if you created the new
website using an existing site as a model.
Blank site
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15. Front-end of a blank site
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16. Creating a new website using an existing one as a model
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17. Creating a new website using an existing one as a model
The new website will inherite the following :
– Page masks (templates)
– Pages
By default, the new website created from a model will offer the
contents and assets of its model website, waiting for this to be modified
if you want to.
Thanks to this feature, you can create reusable site models.
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18. Website #1
Website #2 (blank)
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Website #3 (created using
website #1 as a model)

19. « Pages » application allows you to add new pages or modify existing ones.
You can also preview the different pages, to see your modifications before
publication.
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20. With a « central administrator » profile, you can :
- view, modify and add new page masks for each of your websites
- manage responsive design properties
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21. To sum up
Rubedo CMS offers multisite factory features.
An intuitive wizard lets you create new websites.
Thanks to Rubedo multisite features, you can create reusable
site models.
Rubedo rights management allows you to work in a « multi
administrators » mode.
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22. To go further
The latest tutorials :
– Content layouts
– Multilingualism tutorial
– Dynamic content types
Read more Rubedo documentation on rubedo-project.org
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