Auntie Boo Crafts Gets an Admin Page

Auntie Boo Crafts mostly mirrors my wife’s Etsy shop automatically, but a few things — like items only sold in person at craft fairs — aren’t on Etsy at all and have to be added by hand. That used to mean editing a raw data file directly, which was fine for a couple of items and increasingly annoying once there were dozens.

So now there’s a small admin page just for that. Everything pulled in from Etsy still shows up as read-only, but the hand-added stuff can be edited right there: titles, descriptions, whether something’s shown, and its photos — including uploading new ones or picking from what’s already there.

Auntie Boo Crafts admin — the section list, hand-added sections editable, Etsy sections read-only

Auntie Boo Crafts admin — a section's items, each with its own photo carousel

Auntie Boo Crafts admin — the edit item screen, with title, description, and link fields

The whole thing came together just by describing what I wanted to Claude Code — a working first version in one sitting, then a handful of small follow-up asks (clearer warnings before deleting something, an easier way to flip through an item’s photos) each turned around in a few minutes. It’s just for me to use at home, so it didn’t need to be anything more than exactly what it needed to be.

Source: github.com/cleverswine/abc11ty (dev branch)