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Write, structure, customize, and extend your Bengal site

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Everything between first draft and production deploy: authoring, site structure, theming, and extensions.

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Do I need this? Writers start in Write. Theme developers go to Customize. Plugin authors see Extend. Operators shipping builds should use Ship instead.

Write
Author content, reuse snippets, and apply MyST directives
Structure
Organize pages, collections, i18n, versioning, and site analysis
Theming
Templates, assets, and visual customization
Extending Bengal
Create custom directives, content sources, collections, and build hooks

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Write Markdown and directives Write
Organize pages, menus, versions Structure
Customize templates and CSS Customize
Add plugins, sources, directives Extend

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Write Author content, reuse snippets, and apply MyST directives 1 page
Structure Organize pages, collections, i18n, versioning, and site analysis 1 page
Theming Templates, assets, and visual customization 3 pages
Extending Bengal Create custom directives, content sources, collections, and build hooks 9 pages
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