ToyBase

The WordPress plugin that allows ToyBase do publish data and pictures to a website.

This WordPress plugin displays the message:

Published by ToyBase

in the footer of the website.

Your ToyBase generated website allows you to add as many extra pages as you want.  Your new pages appear across the top of the screen:

In this example there are two extra pages: Map and About.

To create a new page, login to your website and choose Page then Add New as shown below:

The editing instructions are exactly the same as for news posts.  The features of Pages are described in this article.

The new version of ToyBase is now available. If you are running ToyBase and are connected to the Internet then just click the Help…Check for Upgrades menu in ToyBase. Otherwise click download.  This upgrade only has changes related to publishing your stock or toy catalogue onto your website.  If you don’t want to do this, then you don’t need to download this update.

The changes in 7.0.94 only relate to the Publish menu and include:

• a new way of publishing your catalogue to a website
• a new feature – publishing different Branches to different websites

The websites produced by ToyBase have many more features including authoring of pages and full WYSIWYG editing.  Please visit Trevu Toy Library for a real-life example.

ToyBase version 7.0.94 introduces a simpler mechanism for publishing your toy catalogue onto your website.  It also introduces a new feature that allows you to publish separate branches to separate websites!  This article explains the process.  The article looks long but you only need to read it once – after everything is setup there is only one button to push each time you want to update your website.

Before you begin – please ensure that you:

• have asked me to create your website (a signup form will appear soon – for now please email me)
• have received the editor address of your website from me in an email.  You will need to copy/paste this into ToyBase. The editors address looks like http://toybase:shhh1234@example.toylibrary.info and consists of these parts:
  • http://  - all websites start with this
  • toybase – the name of the website editor – you will have an account, and so will ToyBase!
  • shhh1234 – the password only known by ToyBase
  • @
  • example.toylibrary.info  - the website address of your catalogue

To get started, connect your PC to the Internet and then run ToyBase and choose the Publish menu:

Publish ToyBase Catalogue

Click the Publish your catalogue menu.  The new publication dialogue will appear.  Upon using this for the first time you will have to enter the address of your website – but ToyBase will remember all of the details and so the next time you only have to push one large button to start the publication process.

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