Quick start
Get a Basker site set up and your first content live
This page walks through the smallest path to a working Basker site — from signing in to publishing your first page.
When you're done, you'll have: a Basker site with your branding, your team invited, your domain pointing at it, and your first piece of content live.
This page assumes your site has been provisioned and a custom theme is installed. If either isn't true, contact sales before starting.
Sign in
Sign in to Basker at basker.app.
You should now see your site's admin dashboard, with the sidebar showing your content areas and settings.
Set your site identity
Open General settings and confirm your site name, avatar, and public site URL. These show up in the admin, in notification emails, and in SEO metadata, so it's worth getting them right early.
Then check Locale settings for your timezone and currency. The timezone is especially important: every event you create from this point on uses it as the default.
You should now see your site's name in the sidebar header, and the timezone you set reflected on any new event you start to create.
Add your team
Invite the people who'll be working with you. See Inviting users and Roles and permissions.
Editors handle content; site admins handle settings and integrations. Pick the lightest role that lets each person do what they need.
Each invited user appears in your Users list. They'll receive an email and can sign in once they accept.
Configure your domain
Set up the domain your live site will live on. See Domains. DNS verification is the slowest step — start it early so it's ready when content is.
Your domain's status will move from Needs setup to Verifying to Active as DNS propagates and Basker provisions the certificate.
Connect your ticketing app
If you sell tickets through Tessitura, Spektrix, Elevent, or another supported ticketing platform, connect it next. See Apps & integrations.
Once connected, the app syncs your events into Basker so you don't have to enter them by hand. You should see synced events appear in your Events area within a few minutes of a successful connection.
Create your first content
Start with the content type you most need:
- For an organisation built around live events, start with Create events.
- For a content-led site, start with Create pages.
- For an editorial team, start with Create a post.
Save as a draft, preview it, and publish when you're happy. See Drafts, preview, and publishing.
Visit your live site once you publish — you should see your new content rendered through your theme.
Tune the theme
Open Theme settings and review the global controls your theme exposes — colours, typography, header behaviour, footer content. Make any adjustments, save, and check the live site.
Most theme settings take effect immediately on the live site. A few that affect rendered HTML structure may take a moment to propagate.
What you've just done
You've signed in, set up your site's identity, invited your team, connected a domain, integrated your ticketing system, published your first content, and tuned the theme. Your site is live.
Next steps
Once your first content is live, the natural next things to set up are:
- A blog if you publish editorial content — see Blog.
- Forms for contact, signup, and enquiry — see Forms.
- Smart collections for dynamic listings on your homepage — see Smart collections.
- Custom data for anything specific to your organisation that isn't in the built-in model — see Custom data.
If something doesn't look right
If a step didn't go as described, check the Frequently asked questions for the most common issues. The Site activity log shows what's happened on your site recently, which can help diagnose unexpected state. Beyond that, contact sales.