© Joe Attardi 2020
J. AttardiUsing Gatsby and Netlify CMShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6297-9_5

5. The Netlify CMS Application

Joe Attardi1 
(1)
Billerica, MA, USA
 

We’ve installed and configured Netlify CMS, but how do we add posts to our blog? That’s where the Netlify CMS application comes in. When we installed the Netlify CMS Gatsby plugin, it configured a route in the Gatsby site, /admin, which will load the CMS user interface so that we can manage content.

Registering and logging in

To get started, open a web browser and go to the live version of the site at https://<your-site-name>.netlify.app/admin. You will see the Netlify CMS logo and a log-in button, as shown in Figure 5-1.
Figure 5-1

The log-in screen

Click the “Login with Netlify Identity” ...

Get Using Gatsby and Netlify CMS: Build Blazing Fast JAMstack Apps Using Gatsby and Netlify CMS now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.