Since the moment Fork CMS went open-source people were asking about more documentation. We made guides to build extensions and posted extra information on our blog. Still we felt we couldn't keep up the demand on information that our community was asking for.

Our new system is based on GitHub, which is made for collaboration. It gives our community the opportunity to spread their knowledge using the system they already know. The articles are written using Markdown which allows writers to focus on their content instead of worrying about html. All the markdown data that is stored on GitHub gets cached onto our website and is converted to html through the GitHub Markdown renderer. The result is having the benefits from both displaying documentation right through our website and having powerful GitHub collaboration features.

The first two guides Installation and Getting Started are made to welcome newcomers to setup their very first Fork CMS website. They show best practices and help overcome the most common problems. In the User Guide some of the basic principles about using our system gets explained. Another worth mentioning new guide is about contributing. In these articles gets explained how decisions within Fork as an organisation are made and how you can improve the CMS in all different areas.

This is the start of what we think good documentation should look like. We want to keep improving the available information and we look forward to see our community's contributions.

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