Sophia Stack X

Quick start

This takes about ten minutes. It assumes you have installed Sophia Stack X and finished the setup page.

1. Look around the dashboard

After setup you land on your site's dashboard. It shows whether the site is online, how many saved changes are waiting to be published, and the next steps. The menu on the left holds everything for this site:

  • Content: your pages, articles and any other kinds of entries your extensions add.
  • Structure: menus, modules and extensions.
  • Site: publishing, search, people, site accounts, the audit log, API keys, importing and settings.

Preview site opens the site as visitors will see it, with your unpublished drafts included.

2. Edit the home page

Open Pages, then Home. The page builder shows the page through your site's own template and updates as you type. Each part of the page is a block. Click one to change it, drag to reorder it, or add new blocks from the list. Save when you are done.

Saved changes stay private until you publish.

3. Add a page and put it in the menu

Create a page under Pages, give it a title and some blocks, and save it. Then open Menus, add an item to the main menu that points at your new page, and save. Menus decide which pages have addresses: a page is reachable at the address its menu item gives it.

4. Publish

Open Publish and press Publish the site. Sophia Stack X builds every page into a new version of the site, checks for broken links, pictures without descriptions and placeholder text, then switches visitors over. If a page would not render, the publish stops and the live site stays as it was.

Every published version is kept, the last ten of them. If something looks wrong, make an earlier one live again with one click.

5. Make it yours

  • Settings: the site's name, web address, languages and template.
  • Design: colors, fonts, sizes and shape, beside a live preview at phone, tablet and desktop widths, with a contrast check on text colors.
  • Extensions: switch on the blog, shop, forms, events or comments.
  • Modules: put menus, contact details and lists into the template's positions, such as the sidebar or footer.
  • SEO: search settings, structured data and the llms.txt file for AI agents.

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