Documentation

A non-technical starting point for using DesertCMS, choosing the right admin area, publishing content, managing media, and understanding hosted contributor sites.

A practical guide to editing pages and posts, using the visual block builder, changing public design, organizing media, and publishing resource downloads safely.

A non-technical operator guide for hosted contributor sites, requests, blueprints, service plans, billing state, provisioning, support, and contributor lifecycle.

A non-technical guide to hosted-site plans, limits, locked features, service billing, site payments, custom Postmark senders, Stripe Connect, and platform-managed providers.

A site-management guide to private source assets, public output, member-gated content, analytics retention, contributor data, backups, and support boundaries.

The DesertCMS developer map covering runtime surfaces, code organization, configuration, SQLite schema groups, static rendering, dynamic routes, modules, media, contributor mode, and security boundaries.

The supported OpenBSD 7.4 install path for DesertCMS, including plan-only review, dry-run output, packages, filesystem layout, httpd, desertcms_slowcgi, pf, TLS, GeoIP, workers, provider hooks, and validation.

Technical operating guidance for rebuilds, backups, restore tests, root workers, upgrades, rollbacks, validation, media maintenance, GeoIP refresh, support bundles, and contributor-site recovery.

Technical guidance for adding first-party DesertCMS modules with definitions, settings, plan gates, capability policy, admin UI, renderer output, dynamic routes, schema, media policy, and tests.

Technical reference for Postmark, Stripe service billing, Stripe site payments, Stripe Connect, checkout readiness, provider inheritance, Search Console, IndexNow, GeoIP, webhooks, and provider validation.