Users & Media
Admin accounts and the images you upload.
Both live under the Admin group in the sidebar.
Users
Everyone who can log in to /admin. Anyone with an account can change every
setting — there are no restricted roles in this version.
Adding someone
Enter an email and password
The email is the login name.
Save
They can now sign in at /admin.
Changing your own password
Admin → Users → your own account → set a new password → Save.
Do this the first time you log in if you seeded with the example credentials
admin@example.com / changeme123. Those values are printed in the theme's example
file, so they are effectively public.
There is no password reset email
The theme does not include an email service. Payload writes the reset message to the server log instead of sending it, so the "forgot password" link cannot help a locked-out user.
Practical consequences:
- Keep your password in a password manager.
- Create a second admin account as a spare.
- If you are locked out completely, see Troubleshooting.
You will also see this warning in your server log on every start, which is normal:
WARN: No email adapter provided. Email will be written to console.Media
Every image you upload — logo, favicon — lands here.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| File | The image itself. |
| Alt | Description for screen readers and for when the image fails to load. Translatable. |
Where the files go
Into your Supabase Storage bucket — never onto the server's disk. Visitors load them straight from Supabase's CDN.
That means uploads behave identically on every host, survive every redeploy, and come with you if you move hosts. Nothing to mount, nothing to back up off a server.
The bucket must be marked Public. Uploads succeed either way, but a private bucket makes your logo and favicon 404 for every visitor. Fix it under Storage → your bucket → Settings in the Supabase dashboard. See Set up Supabase.
To back them up, snapshot the bucket from the Supabase dashboard.
Practical advice
- Use the right format. PNG or SVG for a logo, PNG or ICO for a favicon. WebP for photographs.
- Resize before uploading. The theme does not generate smaller versions, so a 4000-pixel-wide logo is downloaded at full size by every visitor. Around 200×50 is right for a header logo.
- Always fill in Alt. It is one field, it helps screen reader users, and search engines read it.
- Deleting is permanent. Removing a Media entry that is still selected as your logo leaves the site falling back to the built-in mark.
Using an image somewhere else
The upload fields on other pages — Site Settings → Branding → Logo, for example — let you pick an existing Media entry or upload a new one on the spot. There is no need to visit this collection first.