Be careful… Completely ruined my CMS Had to delete file… Duplicate existing .md file - re do it change all… Then CMS started working again…

What I was getting at is what did Typora get wrong? It only makes a text file. Markdown, especially the basic md that Elements CMS uses has very few options to get wrong. It should be easy to find.

Michael, Diff the two markdown files in a terminal window, or if you’re not comfortable using the command line try FileMerge which is part of Xcode (if installed it will be in Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/FileMerge.app - you can open it directly from there and drag’n’drop the two fi…

Don’t have Xcode - not to familiar with terminal Have no idea what Typora corrupted the CMS All posts died - nothing in preview - nothing online - just empty…

To my knowledge, the latest version of Typora only changed PDF file support.

this is more than likely and issue in the frontmatter. All you have to do is have one markdown file with a front matter issue and it breaks the CMS. I would check for curly quotation marks especially. There may be a setting in Typora where you can set the default to the straight ones.

Or, as for me, an error in the date…

Was this an error injected by Typora?

I’m not trying to kick a horse here. I am trying to decide on BBEdit or Typora for my text editing.

Typora automatically converts straight quotes to curly “smart quotes” as you type, provided the feature is enabled in your settings. This applies globally or on rendering, depending on how you configure your preferences.[ 1 ] Typora Settings: [CleanShot 2026-06-15 at 13.04.21@2x] Worth checking?

Typora is fine!

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MichaelDroste (Michael Droste) June 15, 2026, 4:31pm 25

I think it was a mistake I made…

Typora is fine…

I think I messed up the ‘old’ way of manual posting…

I got used to Claude posting the CMS and auto completing the frontmatter fields… etc

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Typora is fine!

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