What is a CMS and How to Access It

What a CMS is

CMS stands for Content Management System. It is the private control panel for your website.

Without a CMS, publishing a new poem or updating your biography would require writing raw code and manually editing configuration files. The CMS provides a clean visual workspace where you fill out forms, paste your text, and click buttons. The system handles all file formatting and technical steps behind the scenes.

Your website has a dedicated control studio called Admin CMS Studio. It works in any standard web browser on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

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How to open the admin panel

1. Open your web browser (such as Chrome, Safari, or Firefox).
2. Type https://lianhangluah.com/admin in the browser address bar (or http://localhost:4321/admin when working locally).
3. Press Enter.

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Signing into the studio

The admin console connects directly to the site repository (thingpuisen-studio/khangluah). To protect your website from unauthorized changes, direct publishing and deletions require GitHub authentication.

When you open /admin:

• You will see the Admin CMS Studio sign-in screen.
• Click the black Sign In with GitHub button.
• Authorize your account in the GitHub prompt. Once connected, your browser saves your session and unlocks the studio dashboard.
• If you are running the site on your own computer for local testing, a dashed gold button labeled [Localhost Detected: Unlock Studio for Testing] will appear so you can test without signing into GitHub.

At the top of the screen, a green indicator dot confirms that you are connected.

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The studio workspace tabs

Across the top navigation bar (and along the bottom dock on mobile phones), you will find seven workspace tabs:

• Write: The composer where you write, style, and publish new poems, essays, or research papers.
• Preview: A full simulation showing how your current piece will look with live fonts, colors, and styling before you publish.
• Catalog: A searchable library of all published works on your site, where you can reopen pieces to edit them or delete them.
• Assets: A media gallery where you can drop photos to convert them automatically to lightweight WebP images, upload them to the repository, and copy markdown image tags.
• Drafts: A list of unfinished posts saved directly to your browser so you can resume writing anytime.
• Export .md: A view showing the raw markdown file with its frontmatter, ready to copy or download as a .md file.
• Settings: A comprehensive control room for your home hero avatar, about portrait, full biography, social profiles, and site texts.

When you finish working on a shared computer, click the Sign Out button in the top right corner.