Dear forum, I am a Hugo user since 2020 based on GitHub and I kept it building several blogs - but whereas for each of these blog I write seldom so that it doesn’t bother me to write straight from my IDE and Committing from it - for another one I’m increasingly feeling the need to write on-the-go (…

I would use the Github web interface and Netlify to deploy.

I’m assuming you’re referring to NetlifyCMS vs Forestry - both of which are GUI editors. So you don’t have to directly edit markdown files and can do it via an interface. They both do similar things and can hook to Github/Gitlab to commit the new files or posts. Answering specifically your question…

FWIW the creators of Forestry have moved on to TinaCMS, and will be shutting down Forestry at some point, so I recommend going with TinaCMS now for new CMS projects instead of migrating later.

Have a number of customers that are using Forestry.io since some years. They seem happy with it and as a developer I like it as well, easy to integrate without locking you in. As @lkhrs mention they have moved on to https://tina.io and Forestry will be closed by next year if my information is corre…

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Forestry.io is great. Even though it will eventually be ended, they wont terminate it until they have a Tina.io solution for Hugo based sites to migrate over to. I do like being able to put images in with a post folder from Hugo. However, leaving that convention for Forestry.io ’s integration with C…

[image] stevenw00: For Images in posts folder. Not sure why you would want to do that, and I believe that Hugo enforces the use of the static folder not Forestry. But Forestly does allow custom folders to store images if you want. This is not true. Hugo has Page Bundles which allows you to st…

At the end I didn’t impelment anything because I didn’t want to implement something I couldn’t fully understand and that may needed heavy edits to fit my needs… TinaCMS is just postponed on my roadmap to be implemented :slight_smile:

Netlify CMS vs Forestry.io: opinion to my needs

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