Setting Up Blog

Writing helpful blog posts is a great way to get in front of your audience, and grow your SaaS. For this reason, we decided to add a fully featured blog to our template.

By following the instructions in this post, you'll have a running blog inside your SaaS in a couple of minutes.

Create Sanity Account

Sanity will serve as a CMS for our blog. If you don't have an account yet, you can create one for free.

Once your account is ready, head over to the project and go inside cms directory.

Installing Sanity Studio

First, we need to install dependencies by running yarn or npm install inside cms directory.

When dependencies are installed, we proceed by creating a new project. Run yarn sanity:init or npm run sanity:init.

This will trigger the creation of a new project inside Sanity.

You will be prompted to provide a name for your project.

You will also be prompted to choose dataset configuration. Just use the default one.

Next, we need to pick a domain where our CMS gets deployed.

We should see the success message with the URL for our CMS.

Just click on the generated URL and sign in with your Sanity account.

Writing First Blog Post

Now that we have the CMS up and running, it's time to write the first blog post.

Adding Author

Every blog post needs an author. Start by creating one inside Sanity Studio.

Adding Category

Same as with the author, we need to create a category for our blog post.

Adding Blog Post

And finally, we're ready to create a blog post.

Sanity studio is preconfigured with basic tools to write a comprehensive blog post.

If you feel that it's not sufficient for you, you can still customize it to your liking.