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The building blocks of every page

Pages are built by dragging content blocks into template zones. A standard set ships with the CMS, and companion modules add more — sliders, categories, tags, comments, contact forms — available as soon as they’re loaded on a site.

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Drag & dropInto a zone
Loaded per siteThen it appears

Part of

Melis CMS

Type

Plugins + modules

Added in

Page editor

Enabled by

Module loading

Base class

MelisTemplatingPlugin

Blocks

Many

Overview

Standard blocks, plus companions

The CMS ships with the everyday blocks: text/HTML, media, menu, breadcrumb, list-from-folder, and the GDPR banner. You drag them onto a page and configure each one.

Companion modules add more powerful blocks — Slider, Categories, Tags, Comments, Contact form (Prospects) — which appear in the plugins menu once their module is loaded on the site.

Key features

A growing palette of blocks

Standard blocks built in, more added by companion modules — all dragged onto pages the same way.

Standard blocks

Text/HTML, media, menu, breadcrumb, list-from-folder, GDPR banner — built in.

Slider

Attach a slideshow to a page or an article (with MelisCmsSlider).

Categories & tags

File and tag content for richer navigation and filtering.

Contact form (Prospects)

Collect leads with a drop-in contact form block.

Comments

Let visitors comment, with a back-office dashboard widget.

Loaded per site

Each block appears once its module is switched on in Module loading.

See it in action

From the menu to the page

Editors pick a block from the plugins menu and drop it straight into a zone.

Page editor › Edition
Dragging content blocks onto a live page preview
In the zoneLive preview
Compose

Drag a block, configure it, done

Open the plugins menu, drop a block into a zone, then set its options — source, count, template — in its settings modal.

  • Drag a block into a template zone
  • Configure it in its settings
  • Load the module that provides it

For developers

How it's wired

One base class

Every block extends MelisEngine’s MelisTemplatingPlugin: front() renders live, back() renders the edit container.

Surfaced in the editor

Loaded blocks appear in the page editor’s plugins menu under the MelisCms section.

Toggled per site

Availability is controlled by the site’s Module loading.

// A content block is a templating plugin:
class MyBlockPlugin extends MelisTemplatingPlugin {
    public function front() { /* return view vars (live site) */ }
    public function back()  { /* render the BO edit container */ }
}
// It appears in the editor once its module is loaded on the site.

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