How To's
How to use ButterCMS to create, edit, and publish your Blog Posts, Pages, Page Types, and Collections...and more!
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How to Effectively Use ButterCMS Collections for Content Management and Optimization
Learn how to utilize ButterCMS Collections for global content, tagging, form building, and more.
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Best Practices for Constructing Pages and Page Types
Learn how to effectively structure pages and page types in ButterCMS to boost flexibility, reusability, and quality assurance.
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Expanding Beyond Websites: Using ButterCMS to Power Mobile Apps
Learn how to use ButterCMS to power mobile apps, streamline content workflows, and easily manage screens without app store resubmissions.
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Understanding the Differences Between Pages and Page Types in ButterCMS
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Form Builders vs. Custom Forms: Choosing the Right Solution for Your Website
Learn when to use form builders vs. custom forms in ButterCMS, weighing speed, flexibility, scalability, and control over design and data.
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Jotform and ButterCMS Integration
Adding forms to your pages is made easy with our Jotform integration.
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How do I Update or Delete Locales?
Localization is the act of customizing your content to the specific locale (geographic location) of the person interacting with your content. This article provides instructions on updating or deleting a locale.
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ButterCMS Account Clean-up Tips
Quick tips and tricks to clean up your Butter account.
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Setting up Multi-Factor Authentication
Learn how to set up MFA and how you can enable and disable it in ButterCMS.
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Adding Default Values to Content Fields
Overview of the different content fields you can add default values to
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Component Conditional Fields
Learn how to use the component conditional fields feature to make dynamic changes to your pages.
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Formstack and ButterCMS Integration
Adding forms to your pages is made easy with our Formstack integration.
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Typeform and ButterCMS Integration
Adding forms to your pages is made easy with our Typeform integration.
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Lokalise and ButterCMS integration
One-stop solution for AI-powered translations and automated localization.
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DeepL Translator and ButterCMS integration
Speed up time to market by utilizing an automated translation service.
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Important Milestones When Migrating Your Website Into ButterCMS
An overview of important milestones to help successfully transition your website to ButterCMS
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How to Add Images to Components
Guide on how to add visual thumbnails to components
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ButterCMS Content Review for Workflows
What is ButterCMS Content Review and How Does it Work?
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Moving Content Within ButterCMS
Need to move content throughout your Butter account? Please read on...
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How to build Components and Manage your Component Library
Learn how to build Components and manage your Component Library in ButterCMS
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How to log in and manage my Single Sign-On (SSO) users?
Single sign-on (SSO) is a session and user authentication service that permits a user to use one set of login credentials. SSO log-in is available for our Enterprise offerings and is customized to meet your organizations requirements.
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Delete a Draft with a Published Version
Easy guide for removing a draft version of a published page
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How to Customize the URL for a Media Asset
Learn how you can customize the URLs of your media assets.
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Enterprise Multi-site User Management
Learn how to add, delete and manage users in a multisite account
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Add Code Syntax Highlighting to a Website
You can now highlight your code syntax on ButterCMS! Make your code snippets stand out better and make your blog posts more visible to your readers
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Troubleshooting the Preview Feature
Options for troubleshooting the preview feature on your account
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Creating, Editing, Scheduling and Deleting Collections
In depth review of how to create, update, and delete collections and collection items.
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How to Modify Components
Learn how to make an update to a ButterCMS Component
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ButterCMS Pre-Build Planning Checklist
A must read for fast and efficient setup. This short checklist will help your team decide the best way to configure ButterCMS to fit your app.
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Adding a Table of Contents to Blog Posts
Guide on how to add anchor tags or table of contents to your blog posts
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Setting Up Localization on Your Account
Guide on setting up Locales on your account
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Page Status: From Draft to Published
Review the typical workflow for publishing Pages.
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How to Use Workspaces
Workspaces allow you to organize your Collections under different Pages
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How to Add Comments to Blog Posts
Adding comments to your blog posts is very simple, and is a great way to create a sense of community and engage with your audience.
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Sitemap and RSS Feeds
Here is some helpful information when setting up Sitemap and RSS Feeds
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Embedding Forms
This article explains how to embed forms into your Blog Posts and Pages
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WYSIWYG Editor Feature Descriptions
A complete guide to the WYSIWYG editor features.
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Exporting Blog Posts
View all of your blog content in an easy to use .csv file for quick analysis and content calendar planning purposes.
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Scheduling Blog Posts, Pages, and Collections
Have more control and flexibility to coordinate releases of your content by scheduling the publish date for your Blog Posts, Pages, and Collections
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How to Create, Modify and Delete Blog Posts
A Blog Post is a preconfigured page with set fields. This article provides the step by step instructions for how to create and delete a blog post.
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Migrating Content into ButterCMS
Need to migrate content over to Butter? Please read on...
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Draft Collection Content
This article shows you how to create, review, and publish draft Collection content.
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Managing Multiple Sites and Environments
This article shows you how to access and switch from one site or environment to another
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Create, Edit, and Delete Pages/Page Types
Page Types are a powerful feature for creating page templates that can be reused repeatedly. This article provides the step by step instructions for how to create, modify and delete a page type.
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View and Restore Prior Version Histories
Restore or view previous versions of your content
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SEO Optimization
How to Setup your Templates to maximize SEO and Social Sharing
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Account Users
Everything you need to know on how to effectively manage the profile of users under your ButterCMS account
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Managing your ButterCMS Account
This article walks you through your ButterCMS account settings - where to access your API Tokens, set up localization, web hooks, Google Analytics, adjust your user profile, and billing information.
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Previewing Blog Posts and Pages
Previewing Blog Posts and Pages by setting up your preview URLs
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Media Library
Everything you need to know about ButterCMS Media Library
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Add & Adjust Media Files in Posts & Pages
A thorough overview of how to add, edit, and adjust media within your blog posts