Hey,
I’ve been developing a site for my client, and have been using Decap/Netlify CMS. My own site uses this and I use Netlify identity to login.
Realised that this has now been deprecated and I won’t be able to set it up for this site. What are my alternatives so that my client will be able to login to edit her content?
- I have github access setup, however, for this to work for her she would need an account and not sure asking somebody non-technical to get one setup would work
- Would OAuth be the solution? I’ll be honest I have created a free account for this, but I’m a bit lost in the setup of it, it seems quite complex and involved
Many thanks,
James
@jimbateson With basically everything involved deprecated on Netlify’s side of things, you’re almost certainly going to be better off seeking assistance and recommendations from Decap’s community.
There’s a related GitHub discussion here:
https://github.com/decaporg/decap-cms/discussions/7419
In which a user promotes their own solution:
https://decapbridge.com/
The Decap documentation also lists these other oauth clients:
https://decapcms.org/docs/external-oauth-clients/
If you would like to facilitate your own OAuth authentication rather than use Netlify’s service or a client side flow like implicit or PKCE, you can use one of the community-maintained projects below.
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Check each project’s documentation for instructions on installation and usage.
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Thank you very much @nathanmartin got the DecapBridge working, exactly what I was after 
I am trying to setup a blog feature using netlify CMS that was not working so I tried using githubs auth0 also did not work. When i tried using netlifys and went to verify a user the links would redirect me to my site and not bring up a popup to register my account. (on the /admin/ page) now i have a sign in with github button and it just pills up a small window that reads not found. Ive used Chat GPT and Gemini to troubleshoot changing callback url my yml file my index file and all sorts of things but cannot figure it out. would this work for me?
I can link my github url if looking at my code may help
@gzimlich43 I’m not sure, I’ve never used Netlify CMS.
The main thing I know is that Netlify CMS was deprecated years ago, so you shouldn’t select it for use with new projects. It was handed off to another team in 2023 and became Decap CMS.
got you but yes i was going to try and do it through github instead I dont really care how its done I just need an admin page so I can have the site owner post blog posts
You’re free to use whatever you would like, but I can’t really advise.
See this post for some other alternatives:
If you’re using gtihub as the backend, may need to setup a personal access token that has some read-write permissions for the repo you’re pointing to (if not already got that setup that is!)