Site Operations

Settings & maintenance

From site settings to release records and backups, see the foundations of your operation in the admin.

Handle basic settings such as the site name and brand colors, plus plugins and redirects, all in the admin. The public site is exported as static HTML, and deploy history, scheduled jobs, database backups and external API costs can all be checked in the same place.

Prerequisites

DataForSEO / OpenRouterExternal API costs (shows spend for the services you use)

The other screens work without any external service.

All features

01Site settings

Every site setting, organized in tabs

Set the details that define your site, such as the site name, CMS name, brand colors and logo icon, on the General tab. Settings for SEO, builds, the footer, custom code, notifications and more are edited from the same screen by switching tabs. Define a preview URL pattern once, and each article's preview address follows automatically.

The site name, and the CMS name shown in the sidebar and login screen
Brand and hover colors set as color codes
Pick the logo from an icon set, or type text directly
Preview URLs are built by replacing {slug} with the article slug

02Theme

Keep generated images on-brand with prompts

Manage the site's tone and style guide, and the prompts used to generate featured images and SEO daily report images, on this screen. To change the feel of the site, just rewrite the prompts here. Save a field empty to return to the default template.

Separate prompts for featured-image regeneration, SEO daily report images and more
Article titles and summaries are inserted automatically via placeholders
Specify a reference image that sets the visual taste
“Reset to default” returns to the initial template at any time

03Core & plugins

See the core version and every plugin at a glance

Check the CMS core version, the schema status and your installed plugins on one screen. Plugins have two layers, Laravel (admin) and Next.js (public site), so an industry-specific plugin, for example, can extend both admin features and public pages. The core update steps are shown on screen, so updating feels much like a WordPress core update.

Shows the core version and whether the schema is up to date
Lists each plugin's version, description and status
Add features in two layers: Laravel and Next.js
Generate a scaffold with php artisan plugin:make

04Redirects

Change URLs without losing readers on old links

Manage 301 redirects as rules for when you change an article's URL or clean up old pages. Search by source path and filter by enabled or disabled, so you can find the rule you need even as the list grows. Rules are applied to the public site at build time.

See source, destination and status code in one list
Search by path and filter by all, enabled or disabled
Add, edit and delete rules from the screen
Disable a rule to pause it without deleting it

05HTML check

Full-text search the HTML before it goes live

Run a full-text search over the built HTML files to confirm that specific wording is not left behind. On top of the automatic checks for banned words, the 404 page and internal links that run on every build, use it whenever you want to check a particular term on the spot. If nothing matches, it says so along with the number of files searched.

Switch between plain-text and regular-expression (PCRE) search
Regex mode supports Japanese, with an option to ignore case
Shows the search target and the time of the last build
Catch leftover placeholder text before publishing

06Releases

A record of what went live, deploy by deploy

Every production deploy is recorded, and you can look back through the latest 100. Alongside the deploy time, version, commit and branch, you see the file count, size, duration and IndexNow submissions, so you can compare the scale and outcome of each release. You can also look up an article's IndexNow submission history by its slug.

Lists deploy time, version, commit and message
Records file count, size, duration and status
Shows IndexNow submissions for each release
Search IndexNow submission history by article slug

07Release details

Trace a single release through its diff and context

For a single release, cards show the deploy time, commit, size, duration and status. Open the diff against the previous release on GitHub to read every change this deploy took to production. You can also jump to the previous release, the day's deploy list or that day's conversion report, and review what you shipped alongside the results.

View the diff from the previous release, or the single commit, on GitHub
The commit message, with a link to the related task
Jump to the previous release, the day's deploys or that day's conversion report
Check the IndexNow submissions sent with that release

08Scheduled jobs

Make background jobs visible in one list

Every job that runs on a schedule in the Docker scheduler, such as backups, data imports and aggregation, is listed here. Jobs are grouped by category, such as system and conversions, with their schedule and whether logs exist. Where jobs are defined, how to read the logs and the commands for manual runs are on the same screen, so you don't lose time hunting for them.

Jobs listed by category, each with its schedule
Covers everything from daily runs to imports every few minutes
Shows where definitions, the runner container and logs live
Includes commands for manual runs when debugging

09Database backups

Confirm at a glance that backups are running

Check the database dump history and whether the scheduled run (cron) is working on this screen. Cards show health, last run, latest file size and cron status, so you can tell at a glance that backups haven't stopped. The history lists files within the retention period, and each one can be downloaded.

Health is judged by a successful run within the last 48 hours
Confirm scheduled runs from cron's last heartbeat
History listed by file name, size and creation time
Download backup files from the screen

10External API costs

Keep a daily eye on external API costs

For the external APIs used to fetch SEO data and call AI models, check each provider's balance and this month's spend. With costs visible day by day, you notice overspending early. Daily costs for the last 60 days are listed per provider and in total; results are cached, and “Refresh” fetches them again.

Balance and this month's spend for each provider
Daily costs for the last 60 days, per provider and in total
Filter by provider, and use “Refresh” to fetch the latest figures

* Screens use sample data, with some details such as article titles and keywords blurred. The admin is shown in Japanese. Click to enlarge.

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