Netlify-cms: I can't see my posts in the control panel

Created on 5 Feb 2018 · 6Comments · Source: netlify/netlify-cms

Hello,

I'm very new in Gatsbyjs and JAMstack websites in general. I added netlify CMS in my local project, I'm still learning it.

My problem is I can't see any post that I have made in the posts section in the control panel. and whenever I publish a new one it deosn't appear in my posts folder as well.

this is my post is saved in md format test.md:

title: test
---
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my posts are saved in src/pos folder

I'm developing this project in localhost and this is my config.yml file and its saved according to the root /static/admin/config.yml

backend:
  name: test-repo
publish_mode: editorial_workflow
media_folder: "src/images/uploads" # Media files will be stored in the repo under images/uploads
public_folder: "/images/uploads" # The src attribute for uploaded media will begin with /images/uploads

collections:
  - name: posts
    label: Posts
    folder: "src/pos"
    create: true
    fields:
      - {name: title, label: Title}
      - {name: body, label: Body, widget: markdown}

I can't see my posts in the control panel

here is a screenshot
https://gyazo.com/505ffef8355f3e6060b1651130070fee

Source

Abdelrahman146

Most helpful comment

@Abdelrahman146 You still have the backend set to test-repo, which is just in-memory, it won't have any of your posts. The documentation about the different available backends is at https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/authentication-backends/.

I'm guessing you'll want to use GitHub.

tech4him1 on 5 Feb 2018

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I am experiencing the same issue, but only with parts of my website. I am using a collection of files to make every page of my website available for editing in the backend.

config.yml

- label: "Pages"
    name: "pages"
    create: false
    files:
      - label: "Profesores"
        name: "profesores"
        file: "profesores.md"
        fields:
          - { label: "Título de la página", name: "title", widget: "string" }
          - { label: "Contenido", name: "body", widget: "markdown" }
          - label: "Lista de profesores"
            name: "teachers"
            widget: "list"
            fields:
              - { label: "Nombre de profesor", name: "name", widget: "string" }
              - { label: "Descripción", name: "description", widget: "text" }
              - { label: "Imagen", name: "image_path", widget: "image" }

profesores.md

title: Profesores
layout: profesores
teachers:
  - name: Carlos Lague
    image_path: /images/pages/profesores/carlos.jpg
    description: El profesor con lo más tiempo en la escuela y responsable para matemáticas y contabilidad.
  - name: Ilonka Holt
    image_path: /images/pages/profesores/elvis.jpg
    description: Aprender inglés es un aspecto importante para ser un profesional. Ilonka se ocupa de esa materia.
---

Tenemos especialistas de todo el país. Cada materia tiene su propio profesor que es responsable para clases, evaluaciones y el aprendizaje de todos sus estudiantes. Conozca a nuestros profesores aquí:

I have added other Markdown pages into the config.yml, and until now it worked fine. However, after adding the above configuration the backend for "Pages" is empty, it doesn't display any page.

I tried the following:

Moving the Markdown file to a different location
Changing and validating the content, it's fine
Changing the file's name
Changing the file's extension from .md to .yml

Any other file I add to the pages array causes the exact same behavior. If I add a file in _data or on the site's root, independent of it's content, name or structure, it causes the Pages collection to be empty in the backend.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/andreasremdt/instituto-nacional

What can this be?

EDIT: Just created a new files collection with the name "test" and it works, although the content is exactly the same...

EDIT 2: After a bit of research it seems to be connected to the where the files are located. I created a subfolder (using Jekyll) and moved the profesores.md into it which caused the exact same problem. When the file is located in the project's root directory it works fine.