Everything Total CMS can do.

Also in Content Modeling

Demo data on tap

Faker-backed factory functions in Twig generate names, addresses, paragraphs, dates and images, so you can build and style a template before a single real record exists.

Localized & secret fields

Store translations alongside the original, and keep API tokens and keys in masked fields that never render in a template by accident.

Also in AI-Native

Access you control Pro

OAuth 2.1 with per-user consent and group-scoped permissions. An agent sees exactly what the person who authorised it can see — revocable, logged, and expiring.

AI-ready documentation

The Total CMS docs are served over MCP too, so your agent answers from current documentation rather than whatever it half-remembers from training.

Built for deep research

Standard search and fetch tools plus an llms.txt manifest, so ChatGPT and deep-research agents can cite your site accurately.

WebMCP

Experimental extension for Chrome's in-browser agents: forms they can fill and submit, and your MCP server's read tools, run as the visitor. Off by default.

Works with your agent

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code. Connect once over MCP and scaffold a complete site in a session — no plugin to install on either end.

Also in Admin Experience

A focused editor, not a page builder

Every collection gets a clean, purpose-built editing form. Clients edit content — they never touch structure or design.

Guided setup

A first-run wizard walks through environment, data location, your admin account, licensing, and server rules — then logs you straight in.

Inline editing

Hover a cell in the collection table, click the pencil and change the value in place. A site switch and an access-group permission decide who gets the pencil.

Passkeys & phone-friendly

Passwordless passkey login, and an admin that works end-to-end on a phone. Editing content from the couch is a feature.

Reports & relationship maps

Report across any collection, and visualise how collections and objects link together as a diagram when a content model gets big enough to lose track of.

Speaks seven languages

The admin ships in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Polish — so a client edits in their own language, not yours.

White-label admin

Your logo, your brand. Standard white-labels the admin; Pro removes Total CMS branding from every surface.

Also in Images & Media

Barcodes & QR codes

Generate QR codes and barcodes straight from your templates — product labels, tickets, menus, event passes, all rendered on the fly.

Protected files

Put a file or depot behind a password or your access groups. A shared download or stream URL is not an open door: only the people you allow can fetch it, and everyone else is turned away.

Also in Templates & Design

Git-first templates

Put a builder folder at the project root and your templates are version-controlled: the repo is the source of truth, the admin editor goes read-only, and git deploys them.

HTMX fragments

Live search, faceted filtering, lazy sections, quick-view modals and zero-JavaScript forms, built from the API and the htmx that already ships on every page.

Localized front end

Dates, numbers, currencies and relative time formatted for the visitor’s language, with 25+ locales built in, a site default, and per-template overrides.

Playground

Prototype and test Twig templates against your real content, right in the admin — with autosave.

Typesetting

The typography filter sets curly quotes in the site's language, real dashes and ellipses, and keeps a lone word off a paragraph's last line. Code is never touched.

Also in Site Builder

Modern frontend, optional

Want a build pipeline? Scaffold a Vite setup for Sass and JavaScript. Don't want one? Plain CSS and Twig work exactly as well.

Navigation that builds itself

Menus and links come from your pages, so a renamed route never leaves a dead link behind. Asset helpers add cache-busting automatically.

No build step, ever

Pages are content, routed at request time. Add one in the admin and it is live — nothing to regenerate, nothing to redeploy, no static build to wait on.

Pages you can gate

Put any page behind an access group, keep it as a draft until it is ready, or attach your own middleware — per page, from the admin.

Routes with placeholders

Give a page a route like /blog/{id} and every object in the collection gets its own clean URL. Per-page redirects and status codes included.

Start from a starter

Scaffold a whole site in one command with a bundled starter — minimal, blog, business, or portfolio — templates and demo content seeded and ready to edit.

Also in Data & Portability

Markdown storage

Store a collection as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter instead of JSON, for docs and markdown-first blogs people would rather edit in a text editor or a git repo. One CLI command converts either way.

Also in APIs & Automation

CLI automation

The tcms command line manages collections, objects, schemas, imports, updates, and sync — scriptable, with JSON output.

PHP API

Query collections and render content from any PHP code — the same API the admin itself is built on.

Webhooks Pro

Notify external services when content changes — deploys, rebuilds, notifications, anything with a URL.

Also in Platform & Performance

Bundled extensions

Protect, Maintenance, Scheduled, A/B Split, Pushover, Podcast and WebMCP ship in the box. Enable the ones you need; nothing runs until you do.

In-admin updates

Check, apply, and roll back updates from the admin or CLI. You decide when — nothing updates behind your back.

Multi-backend caching

APCu, Redis, Memcached, or filesystem caching — auto-detected, with one-click cache clearing for editors.

Runs on any PHP host

PHP 8.2+ and a folder — that's the whole requirement. Install via Composer or upload a zip. No containers, no build pipeline.

Secure by default

CSRF tokens, HTML and SVG sanitization, upload validation, path-traversal guards and security headers are on from the first request, with a guide for the parts your host controls.