Getting Started with Agility CMS: The Beginner’s Guide YouTube Series
Let Director of Customer Experience Brendan Cooney show you the basics
If you’re new to Agility CMS – like “I just signed up for a free trial and now I’m in the platform and have no idea what I’m doing” new – don’t worry. Director of Customer Experience Brendan Cooney has you covered.
Getting Started with Agility CMS: The Beginner’s Guide is a brisk, five-part YouTube series. Brendan walks you through the basics to have you navigating the headless CMS platform like a pro in no time flat.
Video 1: Don’t Start Agility’s Free Trial Without Watching This FIRST!
Well, you heard the man.
Brendan kicks things off by introducing free trial users to their instance of Agility CMS. From there, he demonstrates key features and shows you how to access content, assets, and pages. Brendan also covers tools like global search, notifications, and live support.
Key Learnings:
- How to navigate Agility CMS, from content and assets to pages and models.
- Creating, editing, previewing, and publishing content using drag-and-drop components.
- Developer tools, API integrations, and resources available during the free trial.
Video 2: Can You Master Agility Pages in Minutes?
After watching this video, you can.
In this walkthrough, Brendan shows how pages in Agility CMS mirror a sitemap and lets you manage your website’s structure with ease. You’ll create pages and folders and be able to understand the status icons within the platform. Brendan also walks you through previewing in Web Studio, too.
Key Learnings:
- Building pages by dragging components into zones, reordering, and editing fields.
- How to use previewing tools and version controls to review or restore content.
- Managing SEO, visibility, redirects, security, alerts, scheduling, and publishing.
Video 3: Can You Master Content Management In 5 Minutes?
Or 300 seconds if you like.
This video is the fastest deep dive you’ll ever take. Brendan introduces you to the content section of Agility CMS and showcases how it’s organized. You’ll learn the difference between content lists and content items. Brendan also shows the collaborative capabilities of content management, such as commenting.
Key Learnings:
- Understanding lists vs. single items, filters, groups, and bulk operations.
- Managing settings for permissions, alerts, importing/exporting, and batch publishing.
- Item-by-item workflows, from previewing in Web Studio, to versioning, scheduling, and publishing.
Video 4: This Assets Trick Will Save You Tons of Time!
Really, it will!
Brendan takes you on a quick tour of the assets section. You’ll learn how to find and manage files using search, filters, options, and switchable views. Brendan then walks you through asset editing inside the platform, from renaming files to built-in image editing tools.
Key Learnings:
- How to quickly search, filter, sort, and switch views.
- Using drag-and-drop to organize assets.
- Best practices for uploading and naming assets within your folders.
Video 5: Easy Guide to Agility Developer Settings
It really doesn’t get much easier than this.
In his last video, Brendan shows developers where to find and configure key settings in Agility CMS. Learn how to add deployments and manage locales/languages. Brendan also looks at APIs. First, by visiting the API Keys area for viewing, enabling/disabling/creating keys. Then, he shows how to test APIs using Swagger.
Key Learnings:
- Setting up deployments and managing locales.
- Managing API access with keys, GUIDs, endpoints, and webhooks.
- Using Swagger to test requests and locate page/item IDs and model references.
Not Sure Where to Begin with Agility CMS? Begin Here
There’s so much you can do with Agility CMS. Brendan’s series gives you a guided path so you can explore confidently – at your own pace and in the right order.
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About the Author
Jessie Dolman is a Marketing Operations Specialist at Agility CMS, bringing over five years of creative marketing experience from her time working with top agencies. Originally from Montreal, she now calls Toronto home. Jessie loves exploring the city’s vibrant neighborhoods—but she’ll always have a soft spot for a good Montreal bagel.
