Creating a Blog

In this tutorial, you will build a complete blog from scratch using October CMS. By the end, you will have a working blog with a listing page, individual post pages, categories, tags, and an RSS feed, all without writing a single plugin.

# What You Will Build

You will create a blog powered entirely by Tailor blueprints and CMS pages. The finished blog includes:

• A listing page that displays posts with featured images, excerpts, and pagination
• Detail pages for each post, accessed by slug, with full content and tags
• Category filtering so visitors can browse posts by topic
• Tag filtering so readers can find related content
• An RSS feed so readers can subscribe

No PHP code, no plugins. Just YAML blueprints for the content structure and Twig templates for the frontend.

# Prerequisites

Before starting, you should have:

• October CMS installed and running
• A theme with a default layout that includes Tailwind CSS

If you haven't done this yet, work through the Quick Start guide first. This tutorial assumes you have a working layout similar to the one created there.

# Overview

This tutorial is split into six steps:

1. Blog Blueprint: define the content structure for posts, categories, and tags
2. Listing Page: display posts with pagination
3. Detail Page: show a single post by its slug
4. Categories: filter posts by category
5. Tags: add a tag cloud with post counts
6. RSS Feed: add a subscription feed

Each step builds on the previous one. By the end, you will have a fully functional blog managed entirely through the backend.

# Next Steps

Continue to Blog Blueprint to define the content structure for your blog posts.