Using a Website

Scribe CMS stores your content. To display that content on a website, you need a website that has been set up to read from your Scribe account using the Scribe SDK.

This page explains how the two pieces fit together and what to ask a developer for if you need help.

How it works

1. You write and publish content in Scribe CMS.
2. A website built with the Scribe SDK reads your content directly from your account.
3. Visitors to your website see your published articles — grouped and navigable, with an RSS feed and a sitemap.

Your content stays in your account at all times. The website reads it when someone visits — there’s no export, copy-paste, or sync required.

What a developer needs from you

If a developer is building or connecting a website to your Scribe account, they’ll need two things:

What	Example	Where to find it
Your Bluesky handle	alice.bsky.social	Your Bluesky profile — the username with the @
Your site’s domain (as entered in Scribe CMS)	alice.example.com	Your site settings in Scribe CMS

That’s it. The developer uses these to configure the SDK — no passwords or tokens are shared.

Tip

The domain in your Scribe site settings must exactly match the domain of the website the developer is building. If the website is at alice.example.com, the domain in Scribe must be alice.example.com — not www.alice.example.com or just example.com.

URL prefix

If your blog lives at a path on your domain (e.g. alice.example.com/blog/) rather than at the root, you need to set a URL prefix in your site settings.

In this example, set the URL prefix to blog. If your content is at the root of the domain, leave the URL prefix empty.

RSS feed and sitemap

Any website built with the Scribe SDK can expose an RSS feed and XML sitemap automatically. Ask your developer to enable these — they’re a one-file addition to the site. Once enabled:

• The RSS feed lets readers subscribe to your content in any feed reader
• The sitemap helps search engines find and index your articles

Self-hosted websites

The Scribe SDK works with any web framework. If a developer is building a new site from scratch to display your content, point them to the Developer documentation — specifically the Quickstart and Framework Guides.