Hugo + TinaCMS Setup Guide

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Introduction

TinaCMS can be added to your Hugo site locally. In this doc, we'll guide through the local setup, as well as editing on your production site.

You can reference our Tina Hugo Starter for an example.

From within your site's directory, run:

 npx @tinacms/cli@latest init

This will ask you a few setup questions.

When prompted for the "public assets directory", enter: static.

If you are importing your site from Forestry.io CMS, some models & config will be auto-imported.

To edit your site's content in Tina, you can model your content in the tina/config.ts file.

Learn more about content modelling here

You can start TinaCMS with:

npx tinacms dev -c "hugo server -D -p 1313"

hugo server -D -p 1313can be replaced with your site's custom dev command.

With TinaCMS running, navigate to http://localhost:1313/admin

^ The above default port may differ depending on your framework.

Hint: If you are getting error when running this command please see the Common Errors page.

At this point, you should be able to see the Tina admin, select a post, save changes, and see the changes persisted to your local markdown files.