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CMS User Guide
Everything you need to know when creating, managing, and administering content within Brightspot CMS.

• Dashboards
• Publishing
• Workflows
• Admin configurations
Developer Guide
A guide for installing, supporting, extending, modifying and administering code on the Brightspot platform.

• Field types
• Content modeling
• Rich-text elements
• Images
Integrations Guide
A guide to configuring Brightspot's library of integrations, including pre-built options and developer-configured extensions.

• Google Analytics
• Shopify
• Apple News
Content Types Guide
Brightspot is packaged with content types that get you up and running in a matter of days, including assets, modules and landing pages.

• Assets
• Modules
• Landing pages
Design System
Our robust, flexible Design System provides hundreds of pre-built components you can use to build the presentation layer of your dreams.

• Asset types
• Module types
• Page types
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → View system → Annotations
There are two groups of annotations specific to the View system: type and field.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide
This theming guide is intended for developers who need to customize the themes that come with Brightspot’s front end or create a new theme.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Advanced theming techniques
This section covers the advanced theming techniques such as simulating AJAX calls and explaining wireframes for enterprise-grade templates.
Layout
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Advanced theming techniques → Wireframes for Brightspot theme layouts
Brightspot GO’s layouts include dozens of layout elements that you can show, hide, and customize. This section provides wireframes for the most common layouts. You can use the wireframes to locate the corresponding elements within data files and templates.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Configuring a theme → Image sizes
Themes are able to define image sizes that fit inside the various components provided by a theme. Using image sizes requires defining an image size in your configuration files (see Configuring a theme) and defining a context in which that image size should be used.
Default image-size names.svg
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Configuring a theme → Defining image sizes
How to define image sizes in your styleguide.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Data files
Brightspot uses data files to create the Java view interfaces and populate the Styleguide preview with text and graphics.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling
A typical CMS’s content model specifies, for each type of content, the associated fields, field types, which of those fields are required, and callbacks from events. Brightspot’s content modeling also specifies class inheritance and the environment for image processing.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Images → Troubleshooting images
This section describes the steps for diagnosing and resolving the most common causes of blurry or missing images in published content.
Sample robots.txt directives
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Search engine optimization
Brightspot includes search engine optimization (SEO) functionality to enhance retrieval of your content by Internet search engines.