When creating a plugin for any open source system it is always good to check if what you have in mind is already created and also a good starting point is to check out other plugins already made for the system. My first Frog CMS plugin came about while browsing the forum and seeing a discussion about tags. The original plugin was created by someone else but in its early stage I joined in the thread and improved on what was originally created.  In the end Tagger was the product of the that thread.

Tagger was necessary for the original “The Hub” that was built on Frog CMS, the articles that were created on there needed a way to organise them. Now lets get started with how to approach making plugins for Frog CMS.

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Depending on the kind of website you are making and the client’s requirements you may need to have a flexible navigation and layout structure that enables the client to get the maximum out of the website.

Here i will discuss how to show subpages and structure the site in a way that your client will get the maximum out of it. These are the fundamentals i used while creating The Hub.

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Frog CMS is extremely extendible and you can do just about anything you want with it. After developing the Tagger plugin i was asked on the Frog CMS forum how to make the links at the bottom of each post clickable, so in a few minutes i explored this and came up with a quick trick.

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