A CMS (Content Management System) is a tool that helps you create and manage multiple pieces of similar content without building each one as a separate page.

For example, if you want to publish 50 blog posts, you do not need to design 50 individual pages. With a CMS, you design the structure once, add your content, and the website automatically uses that structure for each entry.

Recruit Craft's Content Library is built directly into the Website Builder, allowing you to create, manage, customize, and publish repeatable content without using a separate CMS such as WordPress.

You can use the CMS to create content such as:

The same content can be displayed across different pages of your website through a configurable CMS display section.

The Recruit Craft CMS is organized around four main components:

For example, you can create a Blog Posts collection, add multiple posts to it, and place a CMS section on your homepage to display those posts. Each post can also have its own automatically generated detail page.
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To open the CMS:

A collection is a group of related content.

For example:

To create a collection:

Once the collection is created, you can start adding posts to it. Inside the Content Library, you can create and manage collections. Each collection displays its name, item count, and actions such as Rename and Delete.
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Please note -

A post is an individual content item within a collection. For example, if you have a Blog Posts collection, each article you create within that collection is treated as a separate post. Each post can have its own content, featured image, writer, publish date, tags, excerpt, and SEO settings.

To create a post:

1. Open the relevant collection

From the Content Library, open the collection where you want to add the content.

For example, open your Blog Posts collection if you want to create a new blog article.

2. Add a new post

Select the option to Create to add a post and open the post editor by entering the relevant Post Title.

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3. Add and format your post content

You can create the content manually using the rich text editor or use AI to generate an initial draft.
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4. Configure the post details

Once you have added the main content, configure the information that will be used when the post is displayed on your website.
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5. Configure SEO settings

Each CMS post has its own SEO configuration, allowing you to configure how that specific post is represented for search engines and shared content. You can access the SEO Settings by clicking on the 3 dots under the Action panel.
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6. Save or publish the post

Once you have completed the content, post details, and SEO settings, you can save the post as a Draft or Publish it.

You can publish a post in either of the following ways:

The post can have one of the following statuses:

📌 Please note: A post title is required before you can save or publish the post.

Each collection has a dedicated post list where you can view and manage all the content within it. The list displays the post name, publish date, and status, with posts marked as either Draft or Published. You can also search by post name and filter posts by publish date or status to quickly find the content you need.
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From the Actions menu for a post, you can publish, move a published post back to Draft by unpublishing it, pin or unpin it, rename the title, manage the SEO Settings or delete it. Pinning a post keeps it at the top of both the collection's post list and the live CMS card order, regardless of its publish date. By default, pinned posts appear first, followed by the newest posts based on publish date. Deleting a post is permanent and requires confirmation.
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When you need to manage multiple posts at once, select the relevant posts and use bulk actions to Publish, Unpublish and move them to Draft, or delete them.
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Once you have created posts, you can display them on your website using the Blog section. The Blog section is a draggable section that connects to a CMS collection and displays its posts as cards.

To add a Blog section:

1. Open the page where you want to display the content.
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2. Add the Blog section to the page.

3. From the settings on the right, select the collection you want to display.

4. Configure the card layout and design.

5. Configure Pagination based on how you want to display your posts.

6. Save your changes.
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Before a collection is connected, the Blog section displays sample cards so you can preview the layout. Once you select a collection, its posts are used to populate the cards. An unmapped Blog section cannot be published to the live website.
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When you add the first post to a collection, Recruit Craft automatically creates a dynamic detail page for that collection. The page is named after the collection and is used to display the full content of each post.
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CMS publishing works independently from publishing the entire website.

When you publish a CMS post, the post automatically becomes available on the live website, provided the CMS section is mapped to its collection.

You do not need to republish the entire website every time you publish a post.

The post can have a Published status, but it will not appear on the live website until the website itself is published.

Only posts with a Published status appear on the live website.

Draft posts remain available in the editor and preview but are not displayed to visitors.

If a CMS section is mapped to a collection that does not contain any published posts, the CMS content does not appear on the main website.

The Recruit Craft CMS lets you manage repeatable website content without creating and maintaining every page individually. You can create collections, add and manage posts, write content manually or generate a first draft with AI, configure SEO for individual posts, display content through customizable CMS sections, and automatically provide dynamic detail pages for each entry.

You can use these capabilities to build blogs, team directories, testimonials, resources, and other content-driven sections while keeping content and website management within Recruit Craft.