ShinyCMS Features

Admin features

Admin area

The CMS has an admin area, imaginatively located at https://{your-domain-name}/admin

Any CMS feature that allows you update content or change settings should make itself available to you in this admin area - either by adding its own menu section, or by adding an item to the 'Other' menu section.

Plugins appear in the admin menu in the order that they are loaded, which is specified by SHINYCMS_PLUGINS in your .env.* files or Heroku config vars. If you don't set SHINYCMS_PLUGINS then ShinyCMS will refuse to start.

Admin toolbar

If you are logged into a user account with suitable admin privileges, a toolbar will appear at the bottom of every page on the main site. This toolbar will usually include some context-aware links to relevant admin features, allowing you to easily jump straight to the admin pages for the content you are currently looking at (assuming that you have the access to do so).

Access Control List

Access to all of the admin features is controlled by a fine-grain ACL. You can add/remove capabilities from an individual user on their Edit User page, granting or removing access to particular features or sets of features.