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Overview

This PR includes 4+ months of comprehensive documentation improvements across the entire CouchCMS documentation, enhancing clarity, consistency, and user experience.

What's Changed

📚 Documentation Quality (79 pages)

Enhanced across all major areas:

  • Concepts (23 pages) - Improved core concept explanations
  • Tags Reference (27 pages) - Better tag documentation
  • Tutorials (16 pages) - Clearer learning paths
  • Getting Started (7 pages) - Better onboarding
  • Miscellaneous (5 pages) - Advanced topic clarity
  • Addons (1 page) - Expanded catalog

Improvements include:

  • More descriptive frontmatter for better SEO
  • Enhanced code block formatting
  • Improved cross-references
  • Better examples and explanations
  • Consistent styling throughout

🛠️ Contributor Tools (New)

PR Tracker System - Complete workflow automation:

  • Track progress since last PR (pr:since-last)
  • Automated PR creation (pr:create)
  • English language enforcement
  • Professional PR format generation

Documentation:

  • Complete setup guides
  • Git workflow documentation
  • Language guidelines
  • Quick start guides

🤖 AI Toolkit Integration (New)

AI-Assisted Documentation Support:

  • Complete AI toolkit documentation
  • Claude-specific guidelines
  • System architecture overview
  • AI-friendly documentation structure

Benefits:

  • Contributors using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) get better results
  • Consistent quality from AI-assisted contributions
  • Easier to maintain documentation standards

🔗 Technical Improvements

  • Link consistency - All internal links with trailing slashes
  • Validation enhancements - Better automated checking
  • English standards - Enforced and documented
  • Formatting fixes - Consistent styling

Commits Summary

24 commits including:

  • 16 documentation enhancements
  • 6 bug fixes and corrections
  • 1 refactoring improvement
  • 1 other update

Quality Checklist

  • All pages follow DOCS-STANDARDS.md
  • Links tested and working
  • Build passes locally
  • Validation passes
  • English language throughout
  • SEO-friendly descriptions
  • Consistent formatting

Impact

For Users:

  • Better search results
  • Clearer documentation
  • Easier navigation
  • More complete information

For Contributors:

  • Easier PR workflow
  • Automated tools
  • Clear guidelines
  • Time savings

For Maintainers:

  • Consistent PR format
  • Better quality control
  • Easier reviews
  • English-only content

Testing

  • ✅ Build successful
  • ✅ Validation passes
  • ✅ All links working
  • ✅ No breaking changes

Notes

This PR consolidates 132 days of incremental improvements into a single, comprehensive update. All changes have been tested locally and follow the established documentation standards.

- Introduced a new markdown file detailing media and asset requirements, including alt text, file formats, and directory structure.
- Specified usage instructions for images in both `.mdx` and `.md` files, emphasizing the importance of the Astro `<Image />` component.
- Provided examples and best practices to enhance clarity and consistency in media handling within CouchCMS documentation.
- Updated the link paths in the Editable tag documentation to ensure they correctly point to the respective sections.
- Adjusted the formatting of the editable region types to include trailing slashes for uniformity.
- This change enhances navigation and improves the overall clarity of the documentation.
- Updated the link paths in the sub tag documentation to include trailing slashes for uniformity.
- This change improves navigation and maintains consistency with other tag documentation links.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for better asset management and performance in the checkbox documentation.
- Added imports for checkbox images to enhance clarity and maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change improves the overall presentation and usability of the checkbox examples.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the dropdown documentation.
- Added imports for dropdown images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the dropdown examples.
…nent

- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the editable file documentation.
- Added necessary imports for the editable file example image to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the editable file examples.
…onent

- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for better asset management and performance in the editable group documentation.
- Added necessary imports for the group example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the editable group examples.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the image documentation.
- Added necessary imports for multiple example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the image examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Changed the code block syntax from PHP to HTML for the `message` type example in the editable region documentation.
- This adjustment ensures accurate representation of the example and aligns with the overall documentation style for improved clarity and consistency.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the nicedit documentation.
- Added necessary imports for the nicedit example image to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the nicedit examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
…age>` component

- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the password editable region documentation.
- Added necessary imports for the password example image to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the password examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the radio documentation.
- Added necessary imports for radio example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the radio examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Updated the link to the Core Concepts - Relationships section to correct the relative path, ensuring accurate navigation.
- This change aligns with the documentation's structure and improves consistency with other tag documentation links.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the richtext documentation.
- Added necessary imports for multiple richtext example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the richtext examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
…` component

- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the text editable region documentation.
- Added necessary imports for the editable text example image to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the text examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the textarea documentation.
- Added necessary imports for the textarea example image to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the textarea examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the thumbnail documentation.
- Added necessary imports for multiple thumbnail example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the thumbnail examples, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Updated the links for the **archives** and **date** tags to point to the correct core paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change improves consistency with other tag documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the archives section.
…ences

- Updated all instances of the **cloak_url** tag links to use the correct core paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change improves consistency with other tag documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the cloaked links section.
- Updated the links for the **editable** and **template** tags to point to the correct core paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change improves consistency with other tag documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the cloned pages section.
- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the comments documentation.
- Added necessary imports for the comments example image to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the comments section, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Updated the tutorial links in the CouchCart documentation to point to the correct relative paths, ensuring accurate navigation to the Shopping Cart Tutorial.
- This change improves consistency with other documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the CouchCart section.
- Updated tutorial links in the databound forms documentation to point to the correct relative paths, ensuring accurate navigation to the Job Application Form tutorial.
- This change improves consistency with other documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the databound forms section.
- Updated all instances of the **editable** tag links to point to the correct core paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change improves consistency with other tag documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the editable regions section.
…ponent

- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the events calendar documentation.
- Added necessary imports for multiple calendar example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the events calendar section, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Updated all instances of the **folder**, **folders**, **template**, **listfolders**, and **parentfolders** tag links to point to the correct core paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change improves consistency with other tag documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the folders section.
… fix core tag links

- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the forms documentation.
- Added necessary imports for multiple form example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- Updated all instances of core tag links to point to the correct paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the forms section, aligning with recent updates across other components.
- Updated all instances of the **google_map** tag links to point to the correct core paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change improves consistency with other tag documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the Google Maps section.
- Updated all instances of the **pages** tag links to point to the correct core paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change improves consistency with other tag documentation links and enhances the overall usability of the listing pages section.
…ent and fix core tag links

- Replaced markdown image syntax with Astro's `<Image>` component for improved asset management and performance in the nested pages documentation.
- Added necessary imports for multiple nested pages example images to maintain consistency with other tag documentation.
- Updated all instances of core tag links to point to the correct paths, ensuring accurate navigation within the documentation.
- This change enhances the overall presentation and usability of the nested pages section, aligning with recent updates across other components.
…ectly and add a new line in test-link-patterns.md for clarity
…by skipping inline code and ISO language codes
…acing deprecated files with new commands for improved tracking and management
…eness across multiple concepts and tutorials
…-descriptive links, and skipped headings to streamline documentation validation
…ocumentation, enhancing clarity and accessibility for international contributors
…arity and comprehensiveness, improving user understanding of CouchCMS features and functionalities
… PR creation setup and Git workflow guidelines, to enhance contributor experience and streamline documentation processes
… Tracker scripts with guided and test modes, and update package.json for improved contributor workflow
- Updated PR-TRACKER.md with new no-conflict workflow
- Modified Guided PR Creation script to skip upstream merge
- Updated GIT-WORKFLOW.md with improved conflict-free process
- Enhanced QUICK-START.md with new workflow emphasis
- Key change: Don't merge upstream before PR, let GitHub handle conflicts
- This prevents the frequent merge conflicts the user was experiencing
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@martijnbokma martijnbokma changed the base branch from gh-pages to docs-v2 October 23, 2025 14:22
- Added detailed explanation in PR-TRACKER.md
- Added explanation in GIT-WORKFLOW.md
- Added brief explanation in QUICK-START.md
- Clarifies why git pull and pr:mark-as-merged are needed after PR merge
- Prevents confusion about why this step is important
…nager from pnpm to bun

- Updated timestamps in multiple documentation files to reflect the latest generation date.
- Changed package manager commands from pnpm to bun in relevant scripts and configuration files for consistency and improved performance.
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