# Dev Diary 93 - CMS Early Access Beta 🔥

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493>\
**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\
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**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 7, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/63 "2025-08-07T06:35:17Z")

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@ben

Unbelievable, but I fixed it! The CMS/CMS.php file was uploaded to my server as CMS/cms.php, so with lowercase letters… I changed it to uppercase, and now it works.

crazy …

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**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 7, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/64 "2025-08-07T06:36:57Z")

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> [@Pegasus](#):
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> The CMS/CMS.php file was uploaded to my server as CMS/cms.php, so with lowercase letters

Ohhhh, that sounds like a bug on our end. I’ll check the file names and import statements to ensure this is resolved in the next update 🙂

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**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 7, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/65 "2025-08-07T06:43:21Z")

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It looks like this only works with one of my hosting providers. With the other one, I haven’t had any success with the change…

UPDATE: it is definitely the upload of the lowercase CMS/cms.php to the server. now, it’s also works with my other host. I was on the wrong instance. I just have too many running at the moment … ^^

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**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 7, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/66 "2025-08-07T07:39:04Z")

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@ben I just checked my CMS sources on the server and mine is also all lowercase “cms.php”

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**Author:** ![ercross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@ercross](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ercross)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/67 "2025-08-07T09:43:19Z")

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I can confirm the same thing, uploading has it all lowercase. Rename with uppercase and it works online.

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**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 7, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/68 "2025-08-07T21:44:57Z")

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@ben I just checked my CMS sources on the server, and mine is also all lowercase “cms.php”

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**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 8, 2025, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/69 "2025-08-08T06:28:12Z")

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just wanted to say that the lowercase’d `cms.php` issue has been fixed in in [Elements 1.1.1](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/elements-1-1-1-23782/49548) 🙂

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**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 8, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/70 "2025-08-08T15:59:15Z")

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Thought I’d give the CMS a go no real issues, just patiently needing to see what is added next to the CMS, thought I would start start looking at TWIG filters, all new to me, I assume can use all TWIG filter’s, used upper worked great

First go, this looks like it will be really powerful stuff

Excellent addition to Elements, I thought Elements was powerful already, this raises it to the next level, or the next 20 levels should I say

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**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 8, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/71 "2025-08-08T19:46:00Z")

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> [@upssjw](#):
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> I thought Elements was powerful already, this raises it to the next level

and we’re only just getting started 😃

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**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/72 "2025-08-13T12:34:40Z")

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Hello

First, congratulations 🥳 on releasing the beta CMS, it looks amazing 🤩

I will support CMS with a free copy…

I have some sample issues; I created a new post (new markdown file)

 ![Xnapper-2025-08-13-15.31.20](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/a/e/aef999a959cf5a5baf7bdb855ceb4338cf98c8b6.jpeg)

 ![Xnapper-2025-08-13-15.32.34](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/6/b/6beea90b7999d5af690528c4a2fb80acd7f420cd.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![logrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@logrunner](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/logrunner)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/73 "2025-08-13T12:52:43Z")

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Two things to check (which may help):

1. Your webpage is using .php (not .html) as its filetype - the CMS requires PHP.
2. Your Frontmatter in your .md files is consistent i.e. the .md files have to have the same set of tags present (I believe this will change in a future update).

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**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 13, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/74 "2025-08-13T15:08:21Z")

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> [@logrunner](#):
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> Your Frontmatter in your .md files is consistent i.e. the .md files have to have the same set of tags present (I believe this will change in a future update).

Yup, I’d say that’s the issue!

This should be fixed in the next update, but the workaround for now is to ensure the frontmatter is the same in all files.

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**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/75 "2025-08-13T18:25:40Z")

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Hello @logrunner and @dan

Thanks for your instructions. I am trying to create a blog CMS from zero, I am feeling interested, and we need to learn from videos and instruction Docs: [Elements CMS Docs (very much, in-progress…)](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/cms)

I learn in;

All **Pages** must to do PHP. Its work well

For connect blog, we have to add this; Collection \> {{ITEM.TITLE}} \> LINK TO \>PLAIN TEXT \> {{item.url}}

Posts must be in the top: no issues to face

> -–
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> title: Why I Love Tailwind
> 
> date: 2025-08-01
> 
> author: Julia
> 
> -–

I try to understand, but I have some issues with the author of the page “author“ and ”about” connecting the author to the posts.

 ![Screenshot - 2025-08-13 21.19.27](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/8/8/88ef259b9bb1ceca5a3d6325d32fa5a0612a8370.jpeg)

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**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 13, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/76 "2025-08-13T20:07:50Z")

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Can you share the project via Elements Cloud and I’ll take a look for you?

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**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/77 "2025-08-13T20:34:46Z")

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Hello @dan

This Project is for everyone to free

[elementsapp://downloadDocument/o1Zp8Hvr1Iu4](elementsapp://downloadDocument/o1Zp8Hvr1Iu4)

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**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 13, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/78 "2025-08-13T21:06:59Z")

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@AnasHyeee Okay, I’ve taken a look at your file, and it’s just a few minor setup issues, here’s how to fix it:

1. You need to link to the specific author page - [watch this video](https://share.cleanshot.com/MKV177C6)

2. Author MD files: Your date format is incorrect, it should be Year-Month-Day (2025-08-13), in you have it set as Year-Day-Month (2025-13-08).

3. On the Author page you need to set the CMS item to “Author”, not “Default”.  

4. That’s it. All done. There is no step 4! Here’s your working file: [elementsapp://downloadDocument/FMFOYTo0bAHs](elementsapp://downloadDocument/FMFOYTo0bAHs)

Have fun!

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**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/79 "2025-08-13T22:45:38Z")

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Thank you @dan

I learn more from you, I will design project than make it free used.

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**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/80 "2025-08-14T12:16:03Z")

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Hello

I have some issues I think bugs in;

- Home - blog collections \> {{item.title}} \> link in dark mode - color not change default.
- takedown file; removing the date or adding spaces hides the authors on the about page.

Thank you for hard work

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**Author:** ![AnasHyeee](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/anashyeee/32/27982_2.png) [@AnasHyeee](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/AnasHyeee)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/81 "2025-08-14T12:28:39Z")

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Hello Everyone

You can using Project: Artlces Beta

[elementsapp://downloadDocument/bpZJ7C6Sro1w](elementsapp://downloadDocument/bpZJ7C6Sro1w)

Please feel free to share any suggestions you may have.

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**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 14, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/dev-diary-93-cms-early-access-beta/49493/82 "2025-08-14T13:05:02Z")

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> [@AnasHyeee](#):
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> Home - blog collections \> {{item.title}} \> link in dark mode - color not change default.

This one is a known issue, and is planned to be fixed when we move to Tailwind 4 👍

> [@AnasHyeee](#):
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> takedown file; removing the date or adding spaces hides the authors on the about page.

You need to set the value to all “All Dates” for the collection on the “About” page.

 ![CleanShot 2025-08-14 at 2 .01.03@2x](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/4/e/4e65889de2c97d5e4f579e75f111d06073a9bb1f.jpeg)

I also noticed your “Author” page item was set to “Default (items)”, you’ll want to change that to “Author”.

 ![CleanShot 2025-08-14 at 2 .02.57@2x](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/a/9/a93bd2283a30ae4d5bf7896c18788757719f2489.jpeg)

Phew 😅 Hope that helps!

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