Content is created in plan text, for formatting Markdown can be used.

ShortCodes

If the possibilities of Markdown are not sufficient, extensions can be created by creating your own ShortCodes. These extensions should be able to cover most use cases.

Preview

If the CMS is running in DEV mode (caution, this is not recommended for productive operation), you can activate preview mode by appending ?preview to the URL. This means that unpublished content is also displayed.

MetaData

The front matter yaml header defines the required metadata as well as your custom data, read more

How is content found

All content is stored inside the content/ folder of a site. Every content file has the file ending .md.

If a request comes in, the following steps are executed to find the corresponding content file.

Request: http://condation.com/documentation

1. get the uri: /documentation
2. check if there is an folder documentation in the sites content/ folder
3. if yes: try to load the index.md of the documentation folder
4. if no: check if there is a file named documentation.md inside the content/ folder
5. if yes: load it
6. if no: 404

Some example requests:

http://condation.com/ => content/index.md

http://condation.com/documentation => content/documentation/index.md

http://condation.com/documentation/content/metadata => content/documentation/content/metadata.md