# My first CMS try and BOOM

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [August 9, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612 "2025-08-09T11:26:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![numericcitizen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/numericcitizen/32/26930_2.png) [@numericcitizen](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/numericcitizen)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/1 "2025-08-09T11:26:12Z")

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I’ve created a CMS folder (could have been any name), and a subfolder for blog post.

Created to .md files inside the folder. Then created a collection and set the item to {{item.body}}.

Then this. [See video](https://cloud.numericcitizen.me/GgyxT2p4). What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![thisisrock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@thisisrock](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/thisisrock)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/2 "2025-08-09T11:41:17Z")

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Is your “Advanced” project setting set to php instead of html?

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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 9, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/3 "2025-08-09T11:52:35Z")

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make sure you have the same markdown frontmatter in your .md-files

they are still different

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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 9, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/4 "2025-08-09T11:55:41Z")

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> [@numericcitizen](#):
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> What am I missing?

As @Pegasus states, the front matter needs to be consistent for all the markdown files: see - [Fatal Error - Missing Frontmatter Tag? - #4 by ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/fatal-error-missing-frontmatter-tag/49571/4)

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**Author:** ![numericcitizen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/numericcitizen/32/26930_2.png) [@numericcitizen](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/numericcitizen)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/5 "2025-08-09T13:02:22Z")

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I’m using one .md file with this front matter:

 ![_Cleanshot - Who Is Numeric Citizen.elements@2025-08-09@08.59.46@2x-optimised.png](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/2/9/295d476a56d3ddf7a336d5c2be5c12078f361bc5.png)

The page where I’m testing the collection component is .html, but changing it to .php creates another set of errors

 ![_Cleanshot - Scratch Space@2025-08-09@09.01.57@2x-optimised.png](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/3/0/308d813a45e3caf230538055ab729a15924efd52.png)

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**Author:** ![numericcitizen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/numericcitizen/32/26930_2.png) [@numericcitizen](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/numericcitizen)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/6 "2025-08-09T13:06:52Z")

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I have found the solution: .php was indeed required AND the {{Item.body}} should have been in lowercase {{item.body}}

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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 9, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/7 "2025-08-09T13:14:23Z")

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> [@numericcitizen](#):
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> I’m using one .md file with this front matter

Your video showed two! 😉

Glad you got it sorted. 👍

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**Author:** ![numericcitizen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/numericcitizen/32/26930_2.png) [@numericcitizen](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/numericcitizen)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/my-first-cms-try-and-boom/49612/8 "2025-08-09T14:21:22Z")

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yeah, for testing purposes, I removed one to see if the issue would disappear using only one file.