Publishing a Post Through the CMS

The blog runs on a small, code-free editor at /admin. No developer needed for a routine post; you’ll only need one to change the fields the editor exposes.

One-time setup (a developer does this once)

1. In the Netlify dashboard: Site settings → Identity → Enable Identity.
2. Still under Identity: Enable Git Gateway, so the editor can save directly to this repository without anyone needing a personal GitHub token.
3. Invite each content editor from the Identity tab — they’ll get an email invite to set a password.

Publishing a post

1. Go to yoursite.com/admin and log in.
2. Click New Blog Posts.
3. Fill in the fields:
   • Title — shows as the page heading and in the browser tab.
   • Description — used as both the search-engine snippet and the excerpt on the blog listing page, so write it as a real sentence, not a keyword list.
   • Publish Date / Updated Date — control sort order and the “last updated” signal search engines use for freshness.
   • Author, Tags — shown on the post and used for light grouping.
   • Hero Image — optional; used as the social-share preview image if set.
   • Draft — leave checked while you’re still writing. A checked draft is simply left out of the next deploy; unchecking it and publishing is what makes a post go live.
   • Body — the actual post, written in the same rich-text/markdown editor.
4. Click Publish (or Save to keep working on it as a draft).

Every save is a real commit to the repository, so the full history of every post is just normal git history — nothing CMS-specific to back up separately.