# Dev Diary 93 - CMS Early Access Beta đŸ”„ **URL:** \ **Category:** Elements\ **Created:** [August 6, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493 "2025-08-06T09:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/23 "2025-08-06T14:31:43Z")
> [@dan](#): > > You need to update to [version 1.1 of Elements](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/elements-1-1-0-23779/49502) that we released earlier today! Yes
 just update to the latest version of Elements and you’ll be good to go! ---
**Author:** ![PMUK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@PMUK](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PMUK)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/24 "2025-08-06T14:33:28Z")
All good to go. I couldn’t see the missing bit until I changed over so apologies. WELL DONE EVERYONE!! ---
**Author:** ![upssjw](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/upssjw/32/26063_2.png) [@upssjw](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/upssjw)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/25 "2025-08-06T14:44:31Z")
**Fatal error** : Uncaught Twig\Error\RuntimeError: Impossible to access an attribute (“image”) on a null variable in “\_\_string\_template\_\_8eefe04f17755e02690e44254c006dd7” at line 7. + loads of other lines of errors get this error , downloaded project, opened each page individually in the browser, when viewing the Author page it throws this error ---
**Author:** ![Pegasus](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pegasus/32/25035_2.png) [@Pegasus](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Pegasus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/26 "2025-08-06T14:50:23Z")
same here ![Bildschirmfoto 2025-08-06 um 16.51.08](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/7/3/734276dfab2de7ad55d2b7e3fbf6789ec600b6fa.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/27 "2025-08-06T14:51:35Z")
I think you’re probably trying to preview the Author page directly — so clicking the preview in browser icon in Elements. Correct? If so, you will see this error as the Author page has no “item” to load. If you view the author page via a linked author name, then it will correctly load the author data and the error should be resolved. I know these errors could be better handled — we’ll improve on this going forward 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/28 "2025-08-06T14:52:46Z")
same with the Post page — it doesn’t have a post item to load, so currently displays an error if previewed directly. View the post page by clicking on a post title on the homepage and it’ll work as expected. ---
**Author:** ![upssjw](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/upssjw/32/26063_2.png) [@upssjw](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/upssjw)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/29 "2025-08-06T15:02:21Z")
Thanks understand now ---
**Author:** ![upssjw](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/upssjw/32/26063_2.png) [@upssjw](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/upssjw)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/30 "2025-08-06T15:05:28Z")
@dan any chance you could change the project to a link saves me copying and pasting dl 3 times now thanks ---
**Author:** ![Pegasus](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pegasus/32/25035_2.png) [@Pegasus](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Pegasus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/31 "2025-08-06T15:10:09Z")
@ben first bug. I always use the option in Elements to assign the URL slugs myself. But when I enter `/blog/` in the Folder field, I always get this error message. ![Bildschirmfoto 2025-08-06 um 17.08.57](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/b/4/b418d6ea5f8eea9487d9f63cc676d144c201bc46.png) However, if I remove the path, everything works. ![Bildschirmfoto 2025-08-06 um 17.06.39](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/8/e/8e014ed0350988002c41287666d6cfc9993a7cdf.png) ---
**Author:** ![Pegasus](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pegasus/32/25035_2.png) [@Pegasus](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Pegasus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/32 "2025-08-06T15:47:45Z")
**When I run Elements CMS locally, all of my projects work fine. However, as soon as I publish my projects with the CMS online, I always get an “HTTP ERROR 500” for /blog/.** I even uploaded the test file for troubleshooting. Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? test with php. version 8.3 and 8.4. ---
**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/33 "2025-08-06T16:09:35Z")
Try not to enter the “/blog/” for the folder name, leave out the “/../”, just “blog”. I have never had to do that with Elements, and it works fine. ---
**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/34 "2025-08-06T16:11:47Z")
Now we are in for some fun! Made my day when I saw this. Lots of testing and experimenting coming up. Stoked to finally get my hands on the CMS. Congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![PLM](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/plm/32/31094_2.png) [@PLM](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PLM)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/35 "2025-08-06T16:29:14Z")
Won’t there be an index.html and an index.php in the same root folder without a blog folder (without / /) ? ---
**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/36 "2025-08-06T18:37:03Z")
> [@Pegasus](#): > > But when I enter `/blog/` in the Folder field, I always get this error message. I’ll investigate this one further tomorrow! ---
**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/37 "2025-08-06T18:38:06Z")
Sorry, some of my text inexplicably went missing, I have added it back. Yes, there needs to be a folder name, and yes, it should not have slashes in it. ---
**Author:** ![PMUK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@PMUK](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PMUK)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/38 "2025-08-06T18:43:20Z")
@ben NOT A BUG - on the “AUTHOR” tab on the author page it shows three authors, if you want to add more in content bar on right side there is a heading “COLUMNS and ROWS” but there are no rows only columns to add. So how do I get 6 authors to show without making them micro size? TIA ---
**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/39 "2025-08-06T19:10:00Z")
@ben I tried a simple test to see if I could get going with the CMS, and clearly, I must be doing something wrong. What I have is an existing page that I want to add a title and some text to the top of the page. I add a container, inside the container I add a CMS Item, inside the item I add a text component for the title (with the Twig {{item.title}}). I also added a typography component inside the item and pointed it to {{item.body}}. In my project, I created a folder called “cms” with a folder called “content” inside of it that contains a single Markdown file called “privacy-policy.md”. I then hooked up the CMS item to the markdown file in the project. Then I tried to preview the page, and this is what I get. ![CleanShot 2025-08-06 at 09.01.24@2x](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/b/7/b79e9e2032123580cd416c7bf258c5f33eaa99f7.png) What am I doing wrong as this seemed to be so simple? ---
**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/40 "2025-08-06T19:12:10Z")
That looks like your page might not be .php. Can you confirm if the page is .php rather than.html? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![handshaper](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/handshaper/32/27373_2.png) [@handshaper](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/handshaper)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/41 "2025-08-06T19:15:07Z")
Of course, I did not have the page set to be PHP. Once I did that, it worked perfectly. Be nice if there were some sort of warning when using the CMS if you forget to change the page to PHP. ---
**Author:** ![MikeV](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mikev/32/34985_2.png) [@MikeV](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MikeV)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/42 "2025-08-06T19:19:42Z")
Would be a handy feature @handshaper@ben 😛 [Previous page](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493.md?page=3)