5. Working with CMS

Understand how CMS works in your FastStore project.

This guide is for stores using the CMS. If your store still runs on Headless CMS (legacy), follow the Headless CMS (legacy) track.

If you completed Step 2: Starting a new FastStore project, your store is already linked to the CMS. WebOps configures the CMS store during onboarding in the CMS Integration step.

This guide explains what that integration means and where to find the resources you need to model content, create sections, and extend your storefront.

What you'll accomplish

By the end of this step, you will have:

Understood how CMS fits into your FastStore project after WebOps onboarding
Known where to access CMS in VTEX Admin
Identified the developer tools and guides for content modeling and section creation
Known where to look if you still use Headless CMS (legacy)

CMS in your FastStore project

During WebOps onboarding, you either created a new CMS store or connected to an existing one. That store is linked to your FastStore project and receives content definitions from your codebase.

As a developer, you typically work with CMS in two places:

Your local project: Define and upload component schemas and Content Types using the Content plugin, which you installed in Step 1: Setting up your environment.
VTEX Admin: Editors create, preview, and publish content through the CMS interface.

Common CLI workflows include initializing the CMS folder structure (content init), generating schemas (content generate-schema), and uploading definitions to your CMS store.

Accessing CMS in VTEX Admin

You can manage the storefront content in the CMS interface of VTEX Admin. From there, you can work with branches, edit pages, manage media, and publish changes to your storefront.

If you need to confirm which CMS store is linked to your project, check the CMS Integration settings in Storefront > FastStore WebOps.

Use the guides below to go deeper into CMS development for FastStore:

CMS for FastStore storefronts

Learn about CMS architecture, content modeling, and main features for FastStore storefronts.

Content plugin

Use CLI commands to generate, split, and upload CMS schemas from your project.

Creating a new section in the CMS

Build a custom section component and make it available for editors in the CMS.

Understanding components and sections