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I need help regarding this issue.

I'am new to Contao, and coming from Wordpress, where the file structure (folder) is quite different, I'm having troubling of where to put the front-end files (HTML) and how to work with the Contao back-end. I'm on the way of reading the official documentation, but would really need another explanation, something like Wordpress-wise. Just so I know what files goes where and how to work around with them. Like where to put the header file, the footer file etc. Just some explanation so I get what is goin' on and start doing it.

Thanks in advance!

Jetlum Ajeti
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It really depends on what you want to do. For example, there is no "header" or "footer" file. There is a general template for the front end called fe_page, which you can customize. But other than that, the contents of the header and footer for example can be defined in the so called page layout of the theme you configured.

Unfortunately the official manual is still in the process of being translated to English.

fritzmg
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  • Hi @fritzmg, thanks for responding. The problem I'm having is that coming from Wordpress, you create files and you name them i.e Homepage and in the administration panel when you add a page you can select that template, while all of this is part of a theme. Let's say I want to code a filter for some products and want to have a separate page called Products and want to display that filter on that page. How can I achieve this in Contao? What file should I create? These kind of issues I can't get around Contao. Again, thanks for your help! – Jetlum Ajeti Mar 16 '20 at 17:56
  • Contao is structured completely differently. You have a site structure, the each page in the site structure has articles and the articles are filled with so called "content elements". A content element can be a text or image for example, but also a so called "module", which you define in your theme separately. These modules can be newslists for example, or "newsreaders" to display the detail page of a news entry. – fritzmg Mar 16 '20 at 23:03
  • Hi @fritzmg, thanks for the explanation. I think this part I understood a bit, what I'm struggling is with the code. Let's say I created an article and added some text and need to show Articles of page Products on a page called Products that have a specific HTML structure. How to edit this structure and assign this specific HTML to a page i.e Products page. Thanks for the help since the Contao Community, even though I registered there, I can't post and ask questions there. – Jetlum Ajeti Mar 17 '20 at 09:39
  • Yeah, the English forum is currently broken. You could register on the German forum, we would be happy to ask any questions there. I still don't quite get your question though - I think you still expect things to work like in WordPress ;). Of what exactly do you want to edit the HTML structure? News entry detail? Page article detail? – fritzmg Mar 17 '20 at 13:02
  • Hi @fritzmg, thanks for still coming back to answer my questions. I think right now, I think I understood a little bit Contao. You're right, I was getting frustrated why they made some thing like they are and not like in Wordpress. I thought I would only handle the back-end side, mainly writing PHP code. But the requirements were to build the website front-end wise, meaning to write HTML, CSS and JS code, which I can't do all that, not right now, since I don't have experience on the front-end, I'm a back-end developer. And in Contao creating modules and layouts you have to deal with HTML&CSS. – Jetlum Ajeti Mar 17 '20 at 15:27
  • So that's why after watching some videos about Contao, understood it more and saw why I was having troubling adjusting to it. I was expecting the front-end files to be given to me and I would handle the back-end part (like in Wordpress, where you have to integrate front-end files with the Wordpress code and customize Wordpress plugins and the theme with PHP code). – Jetlum Ajeti Mar 17 '20 at 15:29