User Guide

Getting Started with Mura CMS

This section deals with logging in to Mura' administration screens, navigating around the interface, using the front-end editing toolbar and logging out of the application.

The Dashboard

The Dashboard gives you a quick look at all recent activity within your site, including recent visits, updated content, and form submissions.

Working with Content

This section looks at creating, editing, publishing, and managing content.

Site Manager

The Site Manager contains the core of Mura functionality – enabling you to add, update and delete site content.

Components

Mura Components are reusable blocks of content that can be created and placed on pages, and can be reused across your website.

Categories

Mura has powerful category-based functionality, enabling you to create extensive category/subcategory structures, and set up navigation based on these structures.

Local Content Indexes

This section deals with one of Mura's more powerful features. Here you can create complex but easy-to-use indexes of site content and incorporate them throughout your website. You can learn to do this without any programming knowledge.

Remote Feeds

Learn how to use Remote Feeds (RSS) to add content from other web sites to your site.

Mura Content Objects

Content Objects include components, indexes, forms and other Mura items that can be placed onto a page.

Forms

Learn how to easily collect data by creating web forms to use on your site.

Advertising Management

Learn all about running ad campaigns, cost per click and other advertising related functions included in Mura.

E-mail Broadcaster

Mura has a powerful, but easy-to-use Email Broadcaster that can be used for marketing and communicating with your site’s users.

Managing Mailing Lists

Create and manage mailing lists for use with the E-mail Broadcaster.

Site Settings

When setting up sites in Mura there are a lot of options to choose from. Here's an overview.

Users

Learn about the three main types of users in Mura: Site Members, Administrative Users and Super Admins.

Permissions

Learn to set permissions for the Mura Content Manager in this section.

Mobile
As of release 5.4, Mura CMS supports alternate rendering for mobile devices.