User Guide

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    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/dashboard in 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/dashboard in 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 pages directory reflects the data structure of your website and URLs are generated based on the directory names. Every page directory must contain a .txt file. 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 multiple key: value pairs, separated by lines only containing one or more hyphens.

    title: Portfolio
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tags: Work, Projects
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date: 2018-04-29 12:00:00
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text: ...

    More in User Guide

    • Managing Pages
    • Shared Content
    • Linking to Files And Pages
    • Key-Combos

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