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+author: Sat Naing
+datetime: 2022-09-21T05:17:19Z
+title: How to connect AstroPaper blog with Forestry CMS
+slug: how-to-connect-astro-paper-blog-with-forestry-cms
+featured: true
+tags:
+  - docs
+  - forestry-cms
+  - astro-paper
+ogImage: https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663745737/astro-paper/astropaper-x-forestry-og_kqfwp0.png
+description:
+  Step by step process of connecting Astro-Paper blog theme with Forestry
+  Headless CMS.
+---
+
+In this article, I will explain step by step process of connecting AstroPaper theme with the Forestry headless CMS. So, let's get started 🎉
+
+## Table of contents
+
+## What is Forestry?
+
+[Forestry](https://forestry.io/ "Forestry Website") is a git-based headless CMS and we can manage our markdown contents easily by using that. Although it is not an open-sourced CMS, it has a good free plan by which we can import up to 3 sites (3 repositories). In this article, I'll demonstrate how we can use Forestry as git-based CMS of our AstroPaper blog theme.
+
+## Login / Register an account at Forestry.io
+
+First of all, you have to create an account at [Forestry website](https://app.forestry.io/login "Forestry Login Page"). I usually sign up with my Github account.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663739096/astro-paper/Forestry-io_hk5yzv.png)
+
+## Import AstroPaper site (repository)
+
+This part is importing the repository to Forestry and a little bit of set up process.
+
+### Add Site
+
+After logging in/signing up an account, import your AstroPaper site by clicking "Add Site" button.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663739752/astro-paper/Forestry-io_1_z1bdyd.png)
+
+### Select SSG
+
+In this case, just choose "Others"
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663740872/astro-paper/Forestry-io_2_blrrw2.png)
+
+### Select Git Provider
+
+My git provider is Github and I assume yours is the same. So, choose "Github".
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663740922/astro-paper/Forestry-io_3_pj1v8v.png)
+
+After this, the process of importing site (repo) is done.
+
+## Set up Sidebar
+
+The next phase after importing site is setting up sidebar menu. You can add many sidebar menu as you want. However, I'll only add one sidebar menu in this case.
+
+Navigate to "Finish setup process" > "Set up sidebar" and click "Configure sitebar"
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663740974/astro-paper/forestry-io_4_j35uk9.png)
+
+Then, click "Add Section" button.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663741011/astro-paper/forestry-io_5_sxtgvx.png)
+
+After that, choose DIRECTORY for the Section Type.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663741052/astro-paper/forestry-io_6_lddmkx.png)
+
+Then, configure the directory section. You can follow along with my setup.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663741105/astro-paper/forestry-io_7_jkwgi1.png)
+
+After this step, you should see a sidebar menu "Blog Posts" and some blog posts.
+
+## Set up Media Import
+
+In Forestry CMS, you can set up different options for media (aka assets) such as Cloudinary, git commit media etc. I usually store my assets in [Cloudinary](https://cloudinary.com/). To set up media import, go to Settings > Media. Then select your image storage provider. (I chose Cloudinary).
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663741636/astro-paper/forestry-io-media-import_1_f8i4lm.png)
+
+You can see details of Forestry Cloudinary setup at [Forestry documentation](https://forestry.io/docs/media/cloudinary/).
+
+## Set up Front matter template
+
+After setting everything up, you can set up front matter template for your future blog post. To set up front matter template, navigate to "Front matter" menu on the sidebar.
+
+Then, click "Add Template" button at the top right corner.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663742060/astro-paper/forestry-io-frontmatter_yskfvn.png)
+
+Select new template based on existing document.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663742179/astro-paper/forestry-io-existing-doc_bwcb9q.png)
+
+Then, add template name and choose one of my document page as template.
+
+As the final setup, make some adjustment in the front matter field settings.
+
+![](https://res.cloudinary.com/noezectz/v1663742450/astro-paper/forestry-io-fm-config_jqmgwz.png)
+
+Here are some adjustments you have to made.
+
+**_author_**
+
+- Default => your name
+
+**_datetime_**
+
+- Default => USE "NOW" AS DEFAULT
+
+**_slug_**
+
+- Validation => REQUIRED => true
+
+## Conclusion
+
+You can now post your articles and write whatever you want.