gatsby-plugin-netlify-cms and cms-config-url

[kalebheitzman]

Hi all,

I'm including netlify-cms as a part of a theme and I want to use both manual init as well as specify a config.yml in the theme. It looks like my site is looking for config.yml in the main site instead of the theme however so it comes up as missing. The config.yml isn't being published.

With Netlify CMS you can specify a cms-config-url link tag to tell Netlify CMS where to look for your config file. Is there a way to do this from the plugin options?

Am I going about this all wrong. The goal is to ship a theme where content lives in the main site repository and the theme is separate from the content.

[wardpeet]

cc @erezrokah

[erezrokah]

Hi @wardpeet, thanks for tagging me. You can't configure the cms-config-url at the moment via the plugin.
It should be fairly easy to add it here:

gatsby/packages/gatsby-plugin-netlify-cms/src/gatsby-node.js

Line 89 in 2dde956

includeRobots = false,

then pass it here

gatsby/packages/gatsby-plugin-netlify-cms/src/gatsby-node.js

Line 187 in 2dde956

new HtmlWebpackPlugin({

Maybe generalize it as HtmlWebpackPlugin options to pass down.

However, a simpler way might be to use manualInit with a JS based configuration, and even pass load_config_file: false to disable loading the config.yml completely. See here for more details