Welcome to the Strapi User Guide!

Developer Docs, User Guide, and Strapi Cloud documentation

The documentation for Strapi contains 3 main sections, accessible from the top navigation bar:

• The Developer Docs contain all the technical information related to the setup, advanced usage, customization, and update of your Strapi 5 application.
• The User Guide that you're currently reading is all about using Strapi's admin panel.
• The Strapi Cloud documentation is about deploying your Strapi application to Strapi Cloud and managing your Strapi Cloud projects and settings.

This user guide contains the functional documentation related to all features available in the main navigation of your Strapi application.

Once you have logged in, you can access your Strapi admin panel:

The admin panel homepage can display the guided tour (if you have not skipped or completed it yet) and last edited and published entries if you have anyUpdatedThis content was recently updated.. Please note that the new homepage shown in the screenshot is currently only available in beta versions of Strapi, created with the npx create-strapi@beta my-strapi-project command.

If you are not sure where to begin on this User Guide, we suggest you to:

1. Go through the User Guide fundamentals.
2. Follow the Setting up the admin panel guide.
3. Continue your journey through the various User Guide sections. The "What you will find here" section gives you an overview of the available topics.

What you will find here

The table of content in this User Guide displays 7 main sections.

Clicking on any of the following cards will direct you to the introductory page for that section, with additional details and concepts:

Content Manager

Manage and publish all content types created with the Content-type Builder.

Content Type Builder

Build your data structure by creating and managing content-types.

Media Library

Upload and manage all assets and organize them into folders.

Releases

Arrange entries into containers for publishing and unpublishing actions.

Users, Roles & Permission

Assign permission to roles, which are then associated with users.

Plugins

Find additional functionalities to extend and customize your applications.

General Settings

Access features needed set up your Strapi admin panel.

Welcome to the Strapi community!

If you have any trouble with your Strapi experience, you can reach us through GitHub or our forum! The Strapi Community and Strapi team are always available to answer your questions or help you with anything!