I’ve been using Jekyll Admin as the CMS for this blog since I first created it. It seemed like the easiest CMS to use out-of-the-box with Jekyll, and it worked well enough. A few months ago though, Jekyll Admin stopped being able to save posts properly (I suspect this DependaBot PR was the culprit). I started getting various errors related to the rack gem (similar to what’s described in this StackOverflow post). I tried the suggested workaround of adding the rackup gem to my Gemfile. This resolved some of my errors, but others still remained. A missing method error would appear when I attempted to save new posts from Jekyll Admin. Rather than continuing to waste my time troubleshooting issues for a CMS that seems to be abandoned (based on the project’s commit history), I decided to check out other options.

ChatGPT led me to check out Prose.io and Tina.io. Prose looked OK, but Tina seemed to have a more modern interface. The Jekyll setup guide also looked fairly straightforward. I got started setting up Tina for my blog and quickly found that the setup instructions were lacking details on how to setup the config file for Tina (there are some example config files in their Github repo, but none of them appear to be specific to Jekyll). Thankfully, I found this blog post and managed to get my config file in a “good enough” state for now. I can create new posts from the CMS locally, and the interface is pretty nice. Tina has a cloud and self-hosted option, which might be worth exploring sometime down the road. For now, I’m just happy to have a functioning local CMS again.