Writing Style Guide

Netlify CMS Style Guide Adapted from the Kubernetes Style Guide Documentation Formatting Standards Use angle brackets for placeholders Use angle brackets for placeholders. Tell the reader what a placeholder represents. Display information about a cli command: npm install <package-name> where <package-name> is the name of a package. Use bold for user interface elements Do: Click …

Contributor Guide

We’re hoping that Netlify CMS will do for the Jamstack what WordPress did for dynamic sites back in the day. We know we can’t do that without building a thriving community of contributors and users, and we’d love to have you join us. Getting started with contributing Being a developer is not a requirement for …

Deploy Preview Links

When using the editorial workflow, content editors can create and save content without publishing it to a live site. Deploy preview links provide a way to view live content when it has not been published, provided that you’re using a continuous deployment platform to provide “deploy previews” of your unmerged content. Using deploy preview links …

Start with a Template

You can add Netlify CMS to an existing site, but the quickest way to get started is with a template. Found below, our featured templates deploy a bare-bones site and Netlify CMS to Netlify (what’s the difference, you ask?), giving you a fully working CMS-enabled site with just a few clicks. After clicking one of …

Collection Types

All editable content types are defined in the collections field of your config.yml file, and display in the left sidebar of the Content page of the editor UI. Collections come in two main types: folder and files. Folder collections Folder collections represent one or more files with the same format, fields, and configuration options, all …