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Tutorials
Relaying Errors and Statistics to Composr
Composr has an optional and secure way to automatically relay some errors and statistics to the core development team.
Pinning messages at the top of pages
How to pin messages at the top of site pages for critical information communication.
Staging Servers
- By:
- Chris Graham
- Added:
- 30th Apr 2017
- Edited:
- 18th Nov 2025
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- Expert
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- Auxillary
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Some advice about using a staging server.
Cloning your site
- By:
- temp1024
- Added:
- 30th Apr 2015
- Edited:
- 18th Nov 2025
- Difficulty:
- Expert
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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How to clone your website to create a testing copy.
Theme Lifecycle
How the files in a theme are managed, from initial theme creation, through upgrades.
Backing up your Composr Installation
A task which you should not overlook is backing up your Composr website. Should anything happen to your website without a backup, it can result in a loss of a huge amount of data.
How to Conduct an Upgrade in Composr
A regular task you will need to do is upgrading your Composr website to the latest version of the software. This tutorial explains the basic process.
How to Close or Open Your Composr Website
You'll want to use the closed site feature if your site is new and you want to keep it temporarily closed, or you want to close your site while performing maintenance. This tutorial explains how it works.
Backing up your site
How to backup your website (be it using our backup module, or otherwise), and why it is so important to do it.
Disaster recovery
- By:
- Chris Graham
- Added:
- 31st Jul 2008
- Edited:
- 18th Nov 2025
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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Some 'life saving' solutions to disastrous scenarios that can happen on an unstable web server configuration.
Moving sites
- By:
- Chris Graham
- Added:
- 31st Jul 2008
- Edited:
- 18th Nov 2025
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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How to move a site from one server to another.
Optimising Performance
Composr is very heavily optimised for high performance out-of-the-box, but here are some advanced performance tips.
Uninstalling Composr from a server
We don't want you to uninstall Composr, but we provide a script for you to do it with. We're that nice.
Performing an upgrade
Important background information that will help you keep your website up-to-date with the latest Composr.
Manually editing your database with phpMyAdmin
A primer on databases, and how SQL is used to connect to them - as well as practical advice on using phpMyAdmin.
Need better information?
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- If you have found documentation problems that you'd like someone else to solve log an issue to the tracker.
- If you'd like to contribute a chunk of documentation to go into a tutorial, also log an issue to the tracker.
- If you want to contribute a new tutorial you can submit a link.
