Write your way.
Work in rich text or Markdown. Add images, galleries, video, and linked PDFs. Give each story an author, a featured image, an excerpt, and a tagline.
PholioCMS / Content management
Your content.Your websites.
Your control.
A publishing workspace for the people writing the stories and the people building the website.
Write, review, and publish. Shape your pages, manage multiple websites, and extend the experience with your own React components. Host it on infrastructure you choose.
Built with React + Next.js · Self-hosted · SQL Server
Your website at a glance
View full size (opens in a new tab)Content, publishing activity, and SEO checks in one workspace.
A home for your publishing
From a single publicationto a family of websites.
Each website keeps its own content, authors, menus, design, and settings. Manage them from one installation, with domain mapping and access scoped to the people responsible for each site.
Publishing, considered
A clear pathfrom draft to published.
Tools for the everyday work of running a publication, with room to make the experience your own.
Give every role its place.
Contributors prepare drafts. Editors review and publish. Website Managers look after their assigned sites, while Global Administrators manage the installation.
Build a page that fits.
Combine layouts, columns, and additional rows. Mix authored content with category feeds, then choose ordering, post counts, and the balance of excerpts and taglines.
Start from a familiar structure.
Create reusable content templates for reviews, articles, and recurring features. Each new draft gets its own copy, ready for the author to complete.
Make the details count.
Set website defaults and page-specific SEO metadata. Review search and sharing previews, canonical URLs, crawler settings, and a site-wide breakdown of editorial SEO checks.
Give existing content a new home.
Preview WordPress imports and bring pages, posts, categories, tags, and author profiles into the draft workflow. Review the result before publishing.
Inside PholioCMS
The tools behindyour next story.
Actual screens from Leaf n Grain Society’s PholioCMS workspace. Open any screenshot for a closer look.
A workspace for the whole story
View full size (opens in a new tab)Write and format your content, manage its supporting details, and preview before publishing.
See where to focus
View full size (opens in a new tab)Review editorial SEO checks, filter your content, and inspect recommendations for each page or post.
Keep your websites together
View full size (opens in a new tab)Move between websites while keeping their content, settings, and memberships separate.
Meet Piper / PholioCMS AI
Another perspective.You make the call.
Optional AI reviews help you refine metadata, consider internal links, and draft an excerpt. Suggestions stay suggestions until you choose to use them.
Built-in Phi processing runs on compatible hardware under your control. Administrators configure the provider and execution policy; authors work within that policy when requesting reviews.
Piper needs a supported runtime and sufficient host resources. The built-in readiness check helps assess compatibility. Publishing and SEO tools work without AI.
Piper, in the publishing workflow
View full size (opens in a new tab)Review metadata and excerpt suggestions, then choose which changes to apply.
Room to build
A CMS for your content.A foundation for your ideas.
Use the publishing tools today. Extend the experience when your website needs something more.
Your React pages, in the website.
Create a React page in your editor, then add it through the Custom Pages manager. It participates in the website’s navigation and can be rebuilt as your requirements change.
Custom PagesCapabilities that grow with the site.
Install trusted page modules and enable them separately for each website. WordPress Import and the Custom Pages example provide practical starting points.
Modules · Marketplace plannedBuilt with PholioCMS
Built through real use.
PholioCMS is already supporting a live publication as development continues.
Independent publishing
Leaf n Grain Society
A publication bringing together cigar reviews, spirits, stories, and digital magazine issues. Its live website puts PholioCMS’s publishing workflow into everyday use.
Visit Leaf n Grain Society (opens in a new tab)Reviews
Features
Digital magazines
Multiple authors
One foundation. Room to grow.
Choose your scope.
Public distribution is being prepared. Editions scale with the number of websites you manage.
Standard
One website.Start with one real website. Standard works without license activation.
Pro
Up to five websites.Bring a growing collection of websites into one installation.
Enterprise
Unlimited websites.Manage a broader portfolio under one installation license.
Installer availability, release details, and paid-edition pricing will be published here. No release date has been announced.
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