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12. Customizing the CMS

Joe Attardi1 
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Billerica, MA, USA
 
The Netlify CMS application has a preview of the content as you are entering it. By default, this preview is minimalistic and not very useful. For example, Figure 12-1 shows the CMS preview of the menu page.
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Figure 12-1

The default preview functionality

It would be nice if we could preview what the actual menu page would look like with the data we have added. Netlify CMS allows us to do this with custom previews.

Customizing Netlify CMS

The gatsby-plugin-netlify-cms plugin gives us a hook for ...

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