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#The Unofficial FAQ

Remember folks, a wise man once said... "It's not automagical, but it's pretty straight-forward." We know there will be questions and to help expedite your amazing experience, and to allow us to continue to 💥 the 🐛 we created this magical list to answer some of your questions before trying to field them all individually.

First things first

• Please start by RTFM you might find what you're looking for.
• The Dude abides... by the do & don't rule's of creating Issues
• We ❤️ you and thank you for your willingness, time, and effort to make v2 the best CMS on the planet.

Common Issues with Workarounds

I can't log into the Control Panel####

• Did you try going to /cp instead of /admin?
• Check your folder permission's: site local & statamic should likely be 774 or 777 if all else fails. Read More

I can't log into the Control Panel

• Did you try going to /cp instead of /admin?

Known Issues with Wereworkingons

• Creating fieldset from CP yields exception error
• Uploading non-image files to assets gets exception error

Helpful things to know

Generally

• Replace striptags with strip_tags
• Replace _site_root with site_root
• Regex replace theme:partial src="([a-z]+)" with partial:\1

On Pages

• For now, use nav to mimic pages:listing

On Fieldsets

• include is no longer supported

With Addons

• To get addon path
  • v1: Config::getAddOnsPath($addonName)
  • v2: addons_path($addonName)
• To get addon name from meta.yaml: getAddonName()
• To get addon name from class name: getAddonClassName()
• To fetch tag parameter
  • v1: $this->fetchParam('param_name', null, null, false, false)
  • v2: $this->get('param_name');