User Guide

EE Experts' Quick Setup Guide

This guide is intended for highly experienced ExpressionEngine developers who are already familiar with where things are in EE’s control panel, and those who are experienced with eeSiteKit and just need a quick reminder of the basic settings to get started.

Add this hidden global variable to config.php and config_bak.php (system directory):

$conf['template_loop_prevention'] = "n"; 


Upload the installer and follow the instructions. 

http://asitedomain.com/eeSiteKit/index.php

Remove the installer script.

Host Language Custom Entry Fields:
main_image
main_content_english_usa
main_extended_english_usa

Global Template Variables
global_url = 

http://asitedomain.com/index.php/


global_image_url = 

http://asitedomain.com/

Global Template Preferences:
Strict: Yes
404 Page: kit_display/index

Global Channel Preferences:
Use Category URL Titles in Links?: NO
Auto-Assign Category Parents: NO
Cache Dynamic Channel Queries?: YES/NO (optional)
Word Separator for URL Titles: DASH

Category Groups:
“home” and one group for each channel of the site; separate short-names-with-dashes.

Channels:
“home” and one channel for each main drop-down menu/tab/section in the site; separate short-names-with-dashes.

Avoid Conflicting Template Groups! Check This List.

Template Groups:
Create one template group for each channel of the site and add this code to its index template. (Assign correct language template for each template group.) 

{embed='kit_language/english_usa' template='kit_system/index' weblog='{segment_1}'}

kit_system/engine_main_nav_channels:
Add main channel short-names in the order you want them displayed

kit_display/sitemap:
Add main channel short-names in the order you want them displayed

kit_forms/search:
Add main channel short-names that you want to be search-able

kit_language/english_usa:
lang_title_page_home = update to what comes after your site name for the home page of your site

Default CSS (optional): Paths to set are in “kit_css/index” and “kit_css/kit_ie_repair”