How to find the published content on live site?

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I have added Netlify CMS to a website, and it work. I can publish and edit content for the admin page.

The code updates and all…

But where can i see the content on the live site? :joy:

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backend:
  name: git-gateway
  branch: master

media_folder: "images/uploads"

collections:
  - name: "blog" # Used in routes, e.g., /admin/collections/blog
    label: "Blog" # Used in the UI
    folder: "_posts/blog"
    create: true
    slug: "{{slug}}"
    preview_path: "/blog/{{year}}"
    fields:
      - { label: "Layout", name: "layout", widget: "hidden", default: "blog" }
      - { label: "Title", name: "title", widget: "string" }
      - { label: "Publish Date", name: "date", widget: "datetime" }
      - { label: "Featured Image", name: "thumbnail", widget: "image" }
      - { label: "Rating (scale of 1-5)", name: "rating", widget: "number" }
      - { label: "Body", name: "body", widget: "markdown" }
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Hi @Petter. Netlify-CMS relies on the use of a SSG ( Static site generator). It would be helpful to share the repo so we could determine which technologies you are using and how the CMS should be set up.

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Is there no way to use Netlify CMS with plain raw HTML and CSS static website?

(I don’t want to rely on a SSG)

I created a new website with Netlify CMS in the most basic form.

It’s just a empy website, with the posibility to publish a post with a title.

All i want is to see how the title from the post gets published on the live site.

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As you can see in your _posts directory, the files are saved as .md or markdown. You will need a SSG to build these into .html pages.

I would recommend 11ty or Astro for a simple setup.

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Netlify CMS isn’t capable of reading and editing HTML files. It can only output data, like json, yaml and markdown. In fact, it’s a headless CMS, so it doesn’t know anything about your frontend. You can totally use said data formats without a SSG, but doing so isn’t going to make your life much easier.

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Hi, @Petter, welcome to the forums! :wave:t6: We are so glad you are here. Sorry to hear you are having issues with your site. Thank you @tomrutgers for providing that insight. Here is some additional information that can help you going forward when using Netlify’s CMS netlifycms.org - the site houses our extensive documentation that likely contains helpful information to get you back on track. Thanks for popping in and happy building! :netliconfetti: