Bases CMS

Bases CMS lets you treat a grid of content like a content management system. Requires the Bases core plugin to be enabled.

Features

• Card-based CMS view — display your base entries as cards with thumbnails, snippets, and property information in a grid layout.
• Bulk editing — select multiple items and edit properties at once. Use Shift + Click anywhere on a card to toggle selection.
• Draft toggling — toggle publish/draft status for multiple files at once with visual indicators on cards.
• Tag management — add or remove tags from multiple files simultaneously.
• Property management — set or remove properties across multiple files with bulk operations.
• Inline renaming — rename content right from the grid view.
• Smart deletion — automatically delete parent folders when deleting files with specific names (like index.md), and optionally remove unique attachments only used by deleted notes.
• Quick Edit — execute Obsidian commands directly from card titles without opening files first. Configure a command and icon to appear on each card.
• Custom views — configure the CMS view and add new views to your liking.
• Static GIF option — force static images for animated GIFs in card thumbnails.

Bulk Operations Toolbar

Button	Description
Select all	Select all visible cards
Clear	Deselect all cards
Publish	Remove draft status from selected items
Draft	Add draft status to selected items
Tags	Open a modal to add or remove tags
Set	Set a property value across selected items
Remove	Remove a property from selected items
Delete	Delete selected items (with optional confirmation)

Each toolbar button can be individually shown or hidden in settings.

Bases CMS works together with Home Base to provide a directory of all your content.

Commands

• Select all visible cards: Select all cards in the current view.
• Deselect all cards: Clear the current selection.

Settings

• Confirm bulk operations — toggle confirmation dialogs for bulk operations.
• Toolbar buttons — show or hide individual toolbar buttons.
• Delete parent folder for specific file name — enable smart folder deletion (e.g., delete parent folder when deleting index.md).
• Folder deletion file name — specify the file name that triggers parent folder deletion (default: index).
• Delete associated unique attachments — automatically delete attachments only used by deleted notes.
• Confirm deletions — toggle confirmation dialogs before deleting files.
• Use home icon for CMS view — switch between home and blocks icon in the Bases view selector.
• Enable quick edit — show quick edit icon on card titles with a configurable command and icon.
• Embedded view refresh debounce — delay in milliseconds before refreshing embedded views.
• Virtual scroll threshold — number of items before enabling virtual scrolling.
• Virtual scroll buffer — number of extra items to render above and below the visible area.