Documentation
Guides for running, authoring in, extending and integrating with Kiln. Every page is published from docs/ on GitHub.
Getting started
Compare & migrate
- How Kiln compares
- Kiln vs WordPress
- Kiln vs Ghost
- Kiln vs Strapi
- Kiln vs Payload
- Kiln vs Directus
- Migrating from WordPress
- Migrating from Ghost
Authoring & editorial
- Rich-text editor: keyboard shortcuts & slash commands
- Markdown: paste, import, and the API
- Editorial advisories
- Editorial claim checking
- Broken link checking
- Block-level editorial discussions
- Content releases
- Content lifecycles
- The working copy of a live document
- Forms
- SEO analysis and drafting
- AI block assist in the editor
- GEO — Generative Engine Optimization
- Multiplayer live preview with presence
- Editorial consent linking (compliance cluster)
- Governance dashboard (compliance cluster)
- Code injection (#490)
- Localization workflows
- Navigation menus
- Public theming
- Editorial automation (a Directus Flows answer)
- Newsletter
- Paid memberships
- Cryptographically signed / provenance-verified content
- ActivityPub federation
- Social auto-posting
- Point-in-time content API (compliance cluster)
- Governance chain: assigned fold order (#598 / #670)
Modeling & extending
- The overlay contract
- Extending the content model
- Moving JSON-in-text fields to a group
- Events
- Author profiles and bylines
- KilnCMS — Design Language
- KilnCMS design system
- Runtime / marketplace extensibility — decision & marketplace design
- Frontend asset strategy
APIs & headless
- KilnCMS API documentation
- Headless consumer guide
- Kiln in a native app
- Headless JSON:API
- Headless GraphQL API
- MCP endpoint — LLM authoring
- Ask your content (RAG)
- Visual-editing bridge (external front ends)
- Static / edge export of fired artifacts
- "Stays up when the database doesn't" delivery
- Webhooks
Search
Operations & deployment
- Deploying Kiln
- One-click deploy platforms
- Minimum system requirements
- Environment variables
- Backups & restore
- Observability: editor telemetry & performance profiling
- Performance: SLOs, tuning, and load checks
- v1.0 success metrics
- Releasing Kiln
- Beta user testing: editor UX feedback before v1
- Ephemeral staging / preview environments
- Demo mode — a public instance that resets itself
- Media pipeline
- Content portability — import and export
- Sending email from KilnCMS — operator guide
- Data flows, retention & privacy (operator guide)