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oCMS

A lightweight content management system built with Go, featuring a modern admin interface, session-based authentication, SQLite storage, and extensible architecture with themes and modules.

Features

Content Management

• Page Management — Create, edit, publish, and version pages with a rich content editor
• Scheduled Publishing — Schedule pages to publish at a future date/time
• Media Library — Upload and manage images, documents, and videos with automatic processing
• Menu Builder — Create navigation menus with drag-and-drop ordering
• Full-Text Search — Built-in SQLite FTS5 search for fast content discovery

Taxonomy

• Categories — Organize content with hierarchical categories
• Tags — Add flat taxonomy tags to pages

Forms

• Form Builder — Create contact forms, surveys, and data collection forms
• Multiple field types, submissions management, email notifications

Theme System

• Multiple themes with settings, template overrides, static assets, and widget areas
• Admin import of .tar.gz HTML themes and deletion of inactive custom themes without a restart
• Bundled Tiny Sample archive for trying theme import and activation
• Internationalization support for theme translations

Module System

• Extensible plugin architecture with lifecycle hooks, migrations, and i18n
• Built-in modules: Sentinel, Developer, DB Manager, Migrator, Informer, Demo Mode, Internal Analytics, External Analytics, Privacy, Embed, MCP Server

REST API

• Full CRUD API for pages, media, tags, and categories
• API key authentication with fine-grained permissions and rate limiting

SEO

• Meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, auto-generated sitemap, and robots.txt

Feeds

• RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 subscriptions for published posts, by site, category or tag, in every active language

Multi-Language

• Content translation, language-prefixed URLs, RTL support, admin UI localization

Webhooks

• Event-driven webhooks with HMAC signatures, retry logic, and delivery tracking

Import-Export

• JSON and ZIP export/import with conflict resolution and dry run mode

Caching

• In-memory caching of site config, menus, languages, sitemaps and pages (an optional Redis connection is not used by the caches yet; see Caching)

Security

• CSRF protection, Argon2id password hashing, rate limiting, hCaptcha integration
• Account Dashboard for signed-in users, with private account details and the shared admin layout

Quick Links

Topic	Description
Getting Started	Prerequisites, installation, and quick start guide
Configuration	Environment variables reference
Docker	Docker and Docker Compose setup
Account Dashboard	Read-only account overview, login destinations and account navigation
REST API	API endpoints and authentication
Feeds	Public RSS/Atom endpoints, summaries and HTTP revalidation
Theme System	Creating and customizing themes
Module System	Building custom modules
Deployment	Production deployment guides
Security	Security features and policies
Contributing	How to contribute to oCMS

Technology Stack

• Backend: Go 1.27.3+
• Database: SQLite with goose migrations
• SQL: Type-safe queries with sqlc
• Templates: templ for type-safe HTML
• Frontend: HTMX + Alpine.js
• Rich Text Editor: TinyMCE
• Styling: Custom SCSS framework
• Authentication: Secure sessions with Argon2id password hashing
• Containerization: Docker with multi-stage builds

License

Copyright (C) 2025-2026 Oleg Ivanchenko

GNU General Public License v3.0 — see LICENSE for details.