Here is the list of resources for participants in my Moving Beyond the LMS with Grav workshop (URL of this page is bit.ly/1Y6Aiso):

Grav Skeleton Downloads

The Grav Course Hub installation process has been substantially simplified with the release of the Git Sync plugin. View the updated Open Course Hub documentation on the new learn.hibbittsdesign.org site.

Course Hub Documentation

  • Demo (demo.hibbittsdesign.org/grav-course-hub/)
  • ReadMe (github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-skeleton-course-hub/blob/master/README.md)
  • GitHub Repository (github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-skeleton-course-hub/)

Suggested Desktop Toolset

Suggested Online (Cloud) Toolset

Installation

Web Install

Pre-flight Checklist

  1. Confirm Web server PHP version (PHP 5.5.9 or higher)
  2. Web server login credentials (username and password)

Installation Steps

  1. Download a Grav Skeleton from this page (see above list)
  2. Unzip the package onto your desktop
  3. Copy the entire Grav folder to your Web server
  4. Point your browser to the Web server folder
  5. Create your site administrator account when prompted
  6. And you’re done! (press the icon in the Admin Panel to preview site)

Desktop Install

Pre-flight Checklist

  1. Confirm Web server PHP version (PHP 5.5.9 or higher)
  2. Download and install MAMP (mamp.info)

Desktop Installation Steps

  1. Download a Grav Skeleton from this page (see above list)
  2. Unzip the Grav package onto your desktop
  3. Copy the entire Grav folder into the ‘htdocs’ folder within your MAMP application folder
  4. Launch MAMP
  5. Press the MAMP ‘Start Servers’ button
  6. Enter ‘localhost:8888’ as the URL in your Web Browser
  7. Choose the displayed Grav folder name
  8. Create your site administrator account when prompted
  9. And you’re done! (press the icon in the Admin Panel to preview site)

Now that you have a Grav site present on your computer you can sync those site files to your server in the future, as described in the post Using Grav with GitHub Desktop (hibbittsdesign.org/blog/posts/2015-12-11-using-grav-with-github).

Markdown Documentation

Grav Documentation (learn.getgrav.org/)

Git and GitHub Desktop Overview

Moving Beyond the LMS with Grav Slides

Psst - the above slides were created with swipe.to using Markdown, just like Grav uses!

Twig Language (for theme development)

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