Your design deserves real content.
Check your layout with the text and images your website actually uses. Presta connects Stacks 6 Preview to a local Total CMS 3 data folder or to your website’s server.
How to use Presta with local data.
- Open Presta and your project in Stacks 6. Set your project’s full website address in Stacks Site Settings.
- Preview a page containing TCMS stacks. Presta detects the project.
- Select that project in Presta. If no data folder is shown, click Choose data folder… and choose your existing
tcms-datafolder. - Presta connects automatically when the matching preview and data folder are ready. Refresh the preview in Stacks.
- Keep Presta open while you work. Your data connection is saved for the next session.
No additional local web server is required. Local connections retain native CMS editing in Stacks; edits are saved in the selected local data folder. Click Resume to enable automatic connection again. Presta waits until the project’s preview is open.
How to use Presta with server content.
- In your website’s Total CMS 3 Pro admin, open Utils → API Keys and create a key named Presta.
- Enable GET only with access to all Collections and all Schemas. Copy the generated key; Total CMS shows it only once.
- In Presta, choose + → Server Connection…. Enter the same full website address used in Stacks Site Settings, including
https://. - Paste the key and click Connect.
- Open a page with TCMS stacks in Stacks Preview and refresh it to see your website’s content.
- Keep Presta open while you work.
Server connections are for layout previews. Edit remote content in your website’s CMS; remote admin, login and content editing are not available in Stacks through Presta.
- Your content in your design. Preview TCMS text and images while you work.
- A connection for each project. Keep local data folders and server connections organised.
- Built-in updates. Keep Presta current from the app.
What you need.
macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon, Stacks 6 and Total CMS 3. For local connections, use an existing tcms-data folder. For server connections, your website needs Total CMS 3 Pro and an API key with GET access to all Collections and Schemas. Keep Presta open while using the preview. Stacks and Total CMS are sold separately. App interface in English.
What users say.
Presta is a game changer!! It makes it so easy to preview TCMS data in Stacks App!! I can't believe how well this app works. If you're using TCMS3 and Stacks, you need this little app in your toolbox. You won't be sorry.