Hugo in Action

appendix C. A GUI-based admin section with Netlify CMS

Many nontechnical users coming to the world of static site builders like Hugo miss the admin interface from where they can create content. This interface typically comes with a WYSIWYG editor to create content and a one-button upload to upload images. Because it is hosted, in most cases, we do not need to worry about setting up the whole website to use this. While GitHub provides such an interface, it may be incomplete or too complicated for nontechnical team members. They may not understand the concept of branching and version management in Git and want to continue with the simplicity of a web-based GUI to create content.

There are multiple content management system (CMS) wrappers available ...