A tour of where EmDash CMS stands at v0.39.1. I start on a bare-bones blog template install, work through the admin section by section, and finish on a more customized client site build.
EmDash 1.0 looks close: there is a due date for it on GitHub.
What is covered
- The front-end Admin link and Edit Mode, making and publishing inline edits
- Collection types (pages and posts), fields, drafts, revisions, outline headings, bylines and taxonomies
- Built-in SEO: titles, Open Graph, canonicals and noindex
- The media library: folders, alt text, usage tracking and editing
- Menus, redirects, widgets, reusable sections and comments
- User security with passkeys or magic links
- Plugins, sandboxed versus native, forms and webhooks, and the new plugin registry
- WordPress import and migration options, including the exporter plugin and AI agent workflows
- Settings: social links, robots.txt, API tokens, email sending and backups
- A more customized client site build