Features

Everything in the box.

Over a hundred capabilities ship with every site - from the page editor to built-in SEO, security, notifications and an API. Here they are, area by area, with the Tools that add more.

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Each area has its own page with what it does, how it looks and where to find it in the admin.

Publishing and previews

Drafts on their real address, share links that expire, version history and rename-safe addresses.

The page editor

Split view with a live preview at three widths, the site's CSS beside the Markdown, folding and full keyboard control.

Insert anything

Every shortcode has a form and a preview. Builders for cards, timelines, embeds, effects and components.

Components and blocks

Reusable templates your data renders through, and real web components with their own state.

Themes

37 themes, day and night, fonts, and a theme for one region of a page.

Menus

As many menus as you like, in any slot, bound to part of the site, floating as panels.

Right-click menus

Author the menu visitors get when they right-click, from a fixed and safe set of actions.

Collections and data

Your own data, eight ways to show it, saved views, actions and visitors who filter and export.

Forms

Wizards, conditional logic, triggers that act on the whole form, and forms that end early.

The API

Every collection is a REST API, with project-scoped tokens and endpoints you build in the admin.

Users, roles and security

Roles you define, client portals, proper password resets, sessions and the Security Tool.

SEO

Titles, descriptions, an audit, redirects, the sitemap and share cards - built in.

Dashboard and notifications

The site at a glance, and a site that tells you when something needs you.

The admin

A sidebar you arrange, help beside every setting, documentation and tutorials built in.

Projects

Group pages, data and users per client or initiative, and scope who can see what.

The Marketplace

Tools as signed files, safe updates, switches that warn you first, and licences that fail gently.

Running and updating

One-command installs and updates, a response cache, and one Manager for many sites.

Domma JS and Reactive

The zero-dependency framework it is all built on, and usable without the CMS.

The catalogue

Everything, in one list.

Right-click the list to filter it by area, search it, sort it or export it - that menu is a built-in collection feature, not something written for this page. Click any entry to read more.

Markdown pages, no build step

Pages are Markdown files with YAML frontmatter. Save the file, refresh the browser, the change is live. No compile step, no hydration lag, no deploy pipeline to wait on.

30+ content shortcodes

Hero, grid, card, box, tabs, accordion, carousel, timeline, table, collection, form, menu and more, plus 33 ready-made card layouts. Drop a full component into a page without writing a line of HTML.

Motion and effects, built in

Reveal on scroll, typewriter, counters, ripples, twinkle, ticker tape, butterflies, strobes, fireworks and seasonal celebrations. Motion that respects the visitor's reduce-motion preference.

Full-page live preview

The editor renders the whole page from your unsaved changes, through the real renderer, in the real theme. What you see is the page a visitor gets, not an approximation of it.

Draft preview on the public site

A draft still returns 404 to the public. An editor with permission gets the real page on the real URL with a banner saying so, so you review it in context instead of in a box.

Revocable share links

Mint a signed URL that shows an unpublished page to a client with no login. Backed by a server-side index, so you can withdraw it again the moment the review is done.

Resizable split-view editor

Drag the divider between writing and preview. Live components run in the preview pane, and preview renders never pollute your analytics.

Version history on every save

Every save is a version. Browse them, compare them, restore one in a click. Experiment without keeping your own backups.

Page picker for URL fields

A browse button beside any URL box lists your own pages with search and marks anything unpublished. Typing still wins, because plenty of valid targets are not pages.

Reusable blocks and components

A block is an HTML template your data renders through; a component is a real custom element with its own state. Author both in the admin, with a live preview, and use them on any page.

Responsive preview at three widths

Check a page at desktop, tablet and phone width from one toggle in the Live Preview tab, without resizing a browser or leaving the editor.

Block templates with field placeholders

Write the markup for one item and put the field names in double braces. {{field}} is escaped, {{{field}}} passes raw HTML through, and {{_createdAt:DD MMM YYYY}} formats a date inline.

Block CSS that cannot leak

Each block carries its own stylesheet and you write the rules without a wrapper selector - the server scopes them to that block. Two blocks can both style .title and neither touches the other, or the rest of your page.

Single-file components with typed props

Template, props, script and style in one .dmc file, compiled to a custom element with its own shadow DOM. Props are typed and defaulted, and only the components a page actually uses get sent to the browser.

Export and import blocks and components

Take any block or component out as a single file and bring it into another site, styles and metadata included. Build a house style once and carry it across every site you run.

A composer for typewriter sequences

Scripted typing is a sequence of render, wait and undo steps. The composer gives it a live player bar and a config sidebar, so you watch the sequence play while you write it.

A guided CRUD walkthrough

A tutorial slideover in the editor that builds the smallest end-to-end app on top of Collections, Forms and Actions: schema, form, action, display. The shortest path from empty site to working tool.

A visual card builder

Build a card in a dialog: layout, variant, icon, image, title, subtitle, footer, hover. See it as you configure it, then insert the markup.

An Effects Builder, not a dropdown

One slideover to insert, edit and preview every motion effect: reveal, breathe, pulse, ripple, twinkle, ticker tape, butterflies, strobes, fireworks and seasonal celebrations.

An image editor in the media library

Crop, rotate and resize an image without leaving the admin, then save it back over the original or as a copy.

Component inserter with live preview

Browse your Domma components in a gallery, fill in a props form generated from the component's own schema, and watch it mount in a sandboxed preview before inserting it.

Every shortcode has a dialog

No memorising syntax. Insert any shortcode from a form that lists its attributes, prefilled with sensible defaults, with a live preview of what you are about to drop in. Type it by hand instead if you already know it.

Markdown toolbar and syntax highlighting

Bold, headings, lists, links and tables from a toolbar, over a highlighted editor that makes shortcode blocks visible at a glance.

Shortcode folding

A long hero or grid block collapses to a single summary line so the page stays readable. Unfold to edit, and the original is restored untouched on save.

Timeline and embed builders

Compose a timeline event by event. Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link, browse the media library for a self-hosted video, or point at any iframe URL, and pick the aspect ratio, caption and sizing.

A CSS editor beside the markdown

Swap the writing pane between Markdown and the page's own custom CSS. Both save together, in one action.

An editor reference, in the editor

A panel beside the text with the Markdown syntax table, every keyboard shortcut and the tips people get wrong, tabbed by Basics, Layout, Components, Data and Advanced. It ships with the version you are running, so it cannot drift.

Keyboard control

Bold, italic, the link dialog, indent and dedent, cut or copy a whole line with nothing selected, undo and redo. The common edits never need the mouse.

Three view modes and fullscreen

Split view, write only, or preview only, plus a fullscreen mode that takes the whole screen when a page needs real estate.

Format Markdown in one click

A page edited by several hands drifts. One button re-indents the whole document without touching what it says.

Named versions and side-by-side compare

Saves are versioned automatically with date and author. Name one yourself when a state matters, compare any two, restore in a click.

37 themes, day and night

28 site themes in 14 palettes, each in light and dark, plus 9 admin themes. Every one is a set of design tokens, not a stylesheet you have to fight.

Per-element theme overrides

Point a CSS selector at a theme and the whole region adopts it, including components rendered later. Or set individual tokens by hand. No specificity war, no hand-written overrides to maintain.

A Theme area that explains itself

Picking a theme for a region tells you how many tokens it actually moves, shows the first few as before and after swatches, and warns you when the new theme shares the old one's surface colour.

Automatic day and night

Nominate a day theme and a night theme and the site switches at the times you set, in each visitor's own time zone. A page with its own theme keeps it.

Fonts, set once

Choose from 18 font families and a base size in one place and it applies site wide - no font service to wire up.

Menus anywhere, not just the header

Build as many named menus as you like and map them to slots: navbar, footer, admin sidebar, or a floating overlay panel. Bind a menu to part of the site and it takes over only there.

Floating menu panels

A menu can float as a panel the visitor collapses, drags and resizes, with your configuration as the starting point rather than a cage.

Menu highlighting that you control

Say what items do on hover and when they are the current page, per menu or per item, with alignment, orientation, separators and spacers in the same editor.

Authored right-click menus

Build a custom context menu in the admin and bind it to pages. A fixed action vocabulary, never stored JavaScript, plus the specials a browser's own menu offers.

A context menu editor that previews itself

Bind a menu to a region with optional match and exclude refinements, then right-click the Try it panel to see exactly what a visitor gets before you save.

Dyslexia-friendly typography

The font picker groups a set of dyslexia-friendly families with wider letterforms and spacing, and the root size scales every rem value with it.

Menu behaviour in one tab

Variant, position, orientation, alignment, hover effect, selected-item effect, highlight colour, font family, size, weight, letter spacing and icon size, each with help text saying exactly where it applies.

Separators and spacers are real items

Structural items are first class in the editor rather than markup you fake, including a flexible spacer that pushes what follows to the far end.

Schema-defined collections

Structured content beyond pages. Define the fields in the admin, create entries, render them anywhere. Full CRUD with search, sort, pagination and export.

Eight display modes

Table, cards, list, block, accordion, timeline, carousel and list group. One data source, eight ways to show it, switched with a single attribute.

A right-click menu on every display

Visitors filter, search, sort, group, print and export what is on screen, from the same right-click menu on any collection display. No custom front end required.

Shareable view state

Every filter, sort and grouping lives in the URL. Copy the link and the person you send it to lands on exactly the view you were looking at.

Export with a permission gate

Export writes the filtered and sorted rows a visitor can actually see, and the collection schema decides who is allowed to do it at all.

Saved Views

Save a query, an aggregation or a filtered slice as a named View and render it like any collection. Available on every install, with no database requirement.

Row-level access control

Decide per collection who can see which rows, by role or by ownership, enforced on the server rather than hidden in the front end.

MongoDB storage adapter

A MongoDB database of its own for each hosted site, provisioned and looked after by the Manager. Collections can then move between files and MongoDB one at a time.

Visual form builder

Drag, drop and configure. Field types from text and select through to icon and image pickers, laid out on a real grid.

Conditional field logic

Show, hide or require a field based on the answers already given, including answers from an earlier page of a wizard.

Form Triggers

A field's answer acting on the whole form: raise a banner, fire a toast, disable or require other fields, block the submit, jump a wizard step, celebrate, redirect, or run an Action. Re-enforced on the server, so a blocked form stays blocked.

Multi-step wizards

Page breaks, progress, validation that names what is missing, files and logic that survive every step change.

Anti-spam and rate limiting

A honeypot pair and configurable rate limiting on every form, plus email notifications, webhooks and actions on submission.

Every collection is a REST API

A stable, versioned surface at /api/v1 with twelve filter operators, sorting, pagination and reference resolution. Per-verb access control, so you expose exactly what you mean to.

Project-scoped API tokens

Machine credentials done properly: hashed at rest, shown once, revocable instantly, bound to one project and narrowable to specific collections and verbs.

API Builder

Bind a clean URL to a fixed collection query from the admin. Path parameters, field allowlists, single or list responses, tested live before you ship it.

Build your own Tools

Routes, hooks, admin screens, shortcodes, roles and settings. Scaffold a new Tool from the Marketplace, edit it in the admin's code editor, and export it as one file.

Lifecycle hooks

Hook form submissions, collection writes, page updates and sign-ins. Register your own shortcodes, sanitiser rules, menu locations, notifications and sidebar badges.

A dashboard that reports the site

Page views today, visitors now, drafts, form submissions and site health, a 30-day traffic chart and a Needs attention list of anything that is quietly wrong.

A media library that edits

Upload, browse, search and organise. Crop and rotate in place. Pick from it anywhere a URL or image is wanted, including inside shortcode dialogs.

The Marketplace

Install, switch on, update and configure Tools from one screen. A Tool travels as one signed file, and an update that fails puts the old version back.

Actions: server-side logic, no code

Name a piece of server-side behaviour - update a field, move an entry, send an email, call a webhook, notify someone - and run it from a form, a button on any entry, or a right-click. Needs MongoDB.

Blocks and components, managed

List, edit, export and import block templates and Domma components from the admin, with their own editors.

Built from the same element library

Tabs, accordions, modals, slideovers, toasts, tooltips, tables and forms come from Domma itself. The admin is built from them, your public site renders them, and your plugins get them for free.

Documentation built in

Every shortcode, config key and API endpoint documented inside the admin, searchable, always matching the version you are running rather than a website that drifted.

Edit a Tool's source in the admin

A folder-grouped file tree and an editor for your own Tools' files, so a small change does not need a deploy.

Layout presets

Save a page layout as a named preset and start from it, instead of copying markup between pages.

Tutorials that live with the product

Task-shaped walkthroughs in the admin, each its own page, covering the things people actually get stuck on.

Inline documentation, everywhere

Not one docs page: help text on the field you are filling in, a reference panel beside the editor, and a searchable manual in the admin that ships with the version you are running.

System and Settings in one place

Site URL, email, SEO defaults, cache, breadcrumbs, cookie consent, back-to-top and footer in one screen with one Save - and a badge when something is quietly wrong.

Projects

Group pages, collections, forms, endpoints and tokens under a named project. Scope a user's access to it, and the sidebar follows them into it.

Roles you define yourself

Roles are data, not constants. Create your own, set what each one can reach through a central permission registry, and route guards follow automatically.

A response cache that invalidates itself

Tag-based caching with targeted invalidation, plus ETag and Cache-Control on every public page, so an edit reaches the visitor and an unchanged page costs a 304.

Notifications

An inbox, a bell and sidebar badges for what needs you: failed emails, expiring licences, sign-in attacks, overdue to-dos. Choose who hears about what, and get desktop pop-ups if you like.

Multi-tenant fleet management

Run many sites from one Manager: rolling updates, health checks, Tool licences and switches, and supervised processes. How we host every Domma site.

Mail Reader: a read-only IMAP inbox

Read your mailbox inside the admin, folders and all. Mail is opened read-only, so reading here never marks it read on your phone. Free, switched on when you add an account.

Built on Domma JS

A zero-dependency front-end framework: DOM handling, utilities, dates, storage, HTTP and a full component set in one package, with no build step. The CMS is the largest thing built with it.

Domma Reactive underneath

Dependency-tracked reactivity and fine-grained DOM bindings. Say the relationship once and it is maintained: no virtual DOM, no re-render, and it attaches to HTML your server already rendered.

Projects namespace everything

Pages, collections, forms, blocks, components, endpoints and tokens carry a project. Anything untagged belongs to the protected core project by resolution, never by stamping, so adopting projects on a running site changes nothing until you want it to.

Built-in SEO

Titles and descriptions, a site audit that says what to fix, a sitemap, robots.txt, share cards and structured data - in the sidebar of every site.

Redirects that look after themselves

Rename a page and the old address redirects to the new one. Add your own 301s and 410s, import them from a spreadsheet, and see how often each is used.

Site search, no service needed

A search box or floating button with live results as visitors type, Ctrl+K to open. It only lists pages the visitor is allowed to open.

A free shop on every site

Products with options, stock and pictures, a cart that follows shoppers round the site, and checkout with Stripe, PayPal or payment offline.

Boxes and theme-aware cards

A plain box for any content, tinted in a theme colour or your own, with cards and boxes that stay readable on every theme.

Rename a page without breaking links

Change a page's address and its history moves with it, menu links follow, and the old address redirects.

A visitor theme switcher

Let visitors pick from the themes you offer with a small floating switcher, placed where you like.

Your own themes

Start from any theme and change its colours, fonts, spacing and borders with a live preview. Saved themes work everywhere a theme is chosen. With Theme Roller (Pro).

Forms that end early

A trigger can stop a form when an answer rules someone out, finish it there, and tell the admins what happened.

Fields that explain themselves

Hints under fields, an icon or unit joined to an input, a submit button you can style, place and pair with a second button, and messages that repeat the visitor's answers.

Visitors manage their own entries

Show each signed-in visitor only their own entries - applications, bookings, orders - and let them withdraw one with a button.

Move storage without breaking a thing

Move a collection between files and MongoDB and back, keeping every entry's id and date so links and references hold.

Recipes that build a feature for you

Apply a recipe and get the collection, form, actions and pages for a common job - onboarding, for example - ready to adjust.

Security, free

A health check that says what is weak and how to fix it, sign-in lockout, password rules, a sign-in log and blocking of the scanners that probe every website.

Two-factor and a firewall

Authenticator-app sign-in required per role, recovery codes, a firewall that bans repeat scanners for longer each time, country rules and breached-password checks. With Security Pro.

Client portals with confined roles

Give a role a few admin screens and a home of its own. Its people see only that, on the server as well as on screen.

Password resets done properly

Reset links that never reveal who has an account, limits per account, a note when a password changes, and admins who can send or copy a link.

Signing out that lasts

Every sign-in is a session you can see and end. A new password signs out your other devices.

Switch Tools on and off safely

Switch any Tool off - even the built-in ones - and the admin tells you first what else would be affected. Its data waits for you.

Licences that fail gently

If a Pro licence lapses, the Tool pauses with its data kept, and the free version it replaced comes back. Renew and everything is as it was.

Updates that keep your work

One command backs up, replaces the engine and keeps your content, settings and Tools. Preview it first with a dry run.

Arrange the sidebar

Put any Tool in any folder, group Tools, hide the ones you do not use, and drag things into place in Arrange mode. Choose which screen the admin opens on.

Live counts in the sidebar

Drafts, unread mail, overdue to-dos, visitors right now - beside each Tool's name, with the detail on hover.

Help where you need it

A (?) beside settings that explains them, and loading placeholders that show the shape of what is coming.

Every Tool brings its user guide

Switch a Tool on and its guide appears in the admin's Documentation folder, for the people allowed to use it.

Profiles and pictures

Everyone can set their own details and a profile picture, and admins can add the extra profile fields your site needs.

Dates you can read

Every date in the admin reads day, month, year, with 24-hour times.

And then the Tools

More for each part of the business.

Built-in and free Tools come with every site. Pro Tools add a shop's discount codes, two-factor sign-in, a calendar, invoices and more.

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