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Enable the CMS menu to be configured without overriding the CMS data file.

I am interested and will try to look into this. Still getting my head around how this module works. Do you have any info?

I would like to try to contribute to this issue, since it would be very nice to have collaborators with no coding experience that can help to update my website through the CMS.

May I ask if you can expand a bit more what is your idea?

I also had a look around, and I found that the Netlify CMS seems not to be actively mantained anymore (see this issue and this ticket).

Comments on the Netlify CMS github issue suggests some alternatives, which could be considered in the future:

• Forestry CMS, which however is not FOSS (correct me if I am wrong)
• Tina CMS, from the same creators of Forestry. It has been created for NextJS websites, but they are adding support for non-reacts SSG (see here and here). Again, if you want to use their editor in production you need to use their cloud solution, which I do not know if will be free in the future
• Static CMS (github and website) is a very recent fork of Netlify CMS. Maybe it is worth to keep an eye on the project.

Lastly, another project that can also be useful, is the Front Matter VSCode plugin, which is a local CMS running inside VSCode. It does not address the same problem, but it can be useful for people that are not very comfortable with coding.

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I wrote these observations here, but if you think that are out of scope, feel free to delete them. Otherwise, I can also open a new issue, if they can be useful in the future.

I wrote these observations here, but if you think that are out of scope, feel free to delete them. Otherwise, I can also open a new issue, if they can be useful in the future.

Thanks for this, it's really helpful.

Given Netlify CMS is dead and has effectively been dead for a long time now (even when it had a maintainer from Netlify, he wasn't particularly active or effective in leading the project, and many of the key community contributions which Netlify requested weren't even merged), we'll plan to end development of the associated Wowchemy module which integrated with it and remove the Netlify CMS aspects from the Getting Started guide etc.

There doesn't really appear to be any real incentive for a group of volunteers to lead and maintain a similar FOSS SSG CMS. The forks of Netlify CMS are very unlikely to be successful or maintained for long before becoming abandonware, as mentioned here: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/discussions/6503#discussioncomment-3611150

Plus there are already countless Markdown editors (FOSS and not), some of which integrate with Git directly, e.g. Obsidian, Typora, VSCode, VSCode Online, GitHub Codespaces. And for mobile editing, there are some great Markdown mobile apps with Git integration.

Businesses and professional individuals will likely opt for a paid CMS solution since the cost is so low due to the competition.