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User Guide
Automad ships with an intuitive and clean user interface called the Dashboard. While it is recommended to use the dashboard to edit content and pages, it is also possible to use Automad with just a text editor and a file browser.
The Dashboard
Open
http://yoursite.com/dashboardin your browser to access the dashboard.The dashboard provides an intuitive way of managing an Automad website. You can upload files here, add pages and change system settings. A powerful search bar makes it easy to quickly jump to another page or search for content. You can access the dashboard by navigating to
https://yoursite.com/dashboardin your browser. Please also check out the list of available key-combos to make editing more efficient.
Using a Text Editor
Automad stores content in a human readable form. The file structure of the
pagesdirectory reflects the data structure of your website and URLs are generated based on the directory names. Every page directory must contain a.txtfile. The name of that file represents the template to render the page with. Please check out the included sample content to understand how things are organized. Such a text file basically consists of multiplekey: valuepairs, separated by lines only containing one or more hyphens.title: Portfolio - tags: Work, Projects - date: 2018-04-29 12:00:00 - text: ...
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Automad is designed to be extremely configurable. Managing system settings and running updates can be done by using the browser-based dashboard or a simple text editor and the console.System
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Shared Content - User GuideUser Guide
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Key-combos make content editing more efficient. Automad provides a very basic list of key-combos to navigate to pages or save changes.
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Some variables have reserved names and are always defined. They can be found on top of the page/shared data section in the dashboard. Reseverd variables can be used like normal page variables.
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