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Do you prefer managing your site using a CMS? Or would you like to make it easier for someone (a non-techie, perhaps) in your team to make edits easily? If interested, follow along. Else, skip to the next section

Let's sync your site with forestry CMS.

Prerequisites !!

Obviously you ought to have a github account. This is where your website source will live. Basically, forestry will read from github and write (commmit) to your github repo.

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Gitlab or bitbucket will work too. Just check their implementation here. Happy fishing.
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Requirement 1 : A Forestry account

Jump over to forestry and sign up for an account. Consider signing up using your github account. That way, you don't have to deal with passwords.

Requirement 2: A Netlify account (optional)

If you intend to host with something other than Netlify e.g github pages, please scroll on. Hosting with Netlify is a lot of fun though; I highly recommend it.

Step 1 : Fork or Clone Compse theme

First we will fork this theme's template.

Step 2 : Add your repository in Forestry

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The exampleSite already comes with prefilled default forestry settings. If you set up your site using option 2, look for a file .forestry/settings.yml and remove all exampleSite/ strings from it.
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Go to your forestry account and click on import your site now.

1. Choose hugo
2. github or gitlab. wherever your repo is at.
3. Select your repo