Recipes

Short, complete answers for common tasks. Each one is a few steps you can copy into your project.

Recipe
Authors edit only their own posts	Roles, document-level access and setting the author automatically.
Rebuild a static site on publish	A deploy hook for Netlify, Vercel or Cloudflare Pages.
Reading time with a hook	A read-only field the CMS keeps up to date.
A landing page from blocks	Editors lay out pages from hero, features and call-to-action blocks.
A navigation menu in a global	One editable menu for the whole site, in every language.
Image galleries	Several photos on a post, in the order editors choose.
Deploy on Vercel	Serverless: Postgres or Turso, Vercel Blob or R2 for files, and a cron for scheduled posts.
Move from SQLite to Postgres	Switch databases before launch, or with your data.
Move from WordPress	Posts, pages, categories and images from the WordPress REST API, with redirects from the old addresses.
Automate backups	Daily copies of the database and uploads, and restore drills.
Get your site ready for search engines	Meta tags, a sitemap, robots.txt, hreflang and structured data, then Search Console.