Documentation

Getting started

• What Thallo is What Thallo is, who it is for, and what a site built with it is made of.
• Install Thallo Create a project, set it up, and sign in to the admin.
• Build your first page Open the Design view, lay out a page from the library, and publish it.
• Model your own content Make a content type, add entries, and list them on the site.

Concepts

• Content types, entries and fields How content is modelled: types, fields, entries, references, locales and versions.
• Blocks and block types What a block is, how a page's body is stored, and how a block becomes HTML.
• The Design view How the visual builder works: the stage, the Container, breakpoints, and settings that are saved as data.
• Themes What a theme is, what it controls, and what it leaves to the site's settings.
• Drafts, preview and publishing The life of an entry: draft, preview, review, publish, schedule, unpublish.
• Capabilities and packs How Thallo's features are packaged, and what switching one on or off does.
• The content API Read your content as JSON: the delivery API, API keys, and the reference every install serves.
• Workspaces Running several sites on one install: what a workspace is and what it separates.

Guides

• Set your colours, fonts and logo Give the site your brand colour, your own fonts and your logo, and see it before you save.
• Edit the header and footer Change what is in the site's header and footer, and how they look.
• Build the site's menus Create a menu, order its links, and show it in the header.
• Use the section and page library Start a page from ready-made sections and pages instead of an empty stage.
• Reuse styling with style classes Save a block's styling as a named class, apply it elsewhere, and change it once for all.
• Animate blocks as they scroll into view Add entrances, stagger a group, and set a slow zoom on a picture.
• Add a form and receive submissions Put a contact form on a page and read its submissions in the admin.
• Manage images and files Upload, find and reuse images, documents and fonts.
• Publish in more than one language Add a language, translate entries, and give each language its URLs.
• Titles, descriptions, sitemaps and redirects Control how pages appear in search results and what happens to old URLs.
• Add search to the site Turn on content search, build the index, and choose between PostgreSQL and Meilisearch.
• Import content from CSV, WordPress or Markdown Bring existing content in: map a CSV, import a WordPress export, or move a Thallo site.
• Make your own theme Start a theme from the default one, override a template, and ship your own CSS.
• Make your own block type Define a block's fields in the admin, write its template, and give it style settings.
• Users, roles and permissions Create accounts, decide what each may do, and read the trail of who changed what.
• Notify other systems with webhooks Register an endpoint, verify the signature Thallo signs its requests with, and read the delivery log.
• Let visitors sign up and sign in Give the site's visitors accounts: registration, sign-in and account pages.
• Sell products Switch on the store, add a product, take a payment, and see the order.
• Charge for plans Define plans, show pricing on a page, and let a workspace subscribe.
• Design a layout Design every post of a content type at once: where the title, date, cover and content go, and what surrounds them.
• A documentation section on your site Publish a folder of Markdown as a documentation section, from a deploy or from the admin.

Reference

• Command line reference Every command Thallo adds to the console, with its arguments and options.
• Configuration reference The environment keys and config files a site owner sets, with their defaults.
• Template functions Every function, filter and variable a Thallo template can use.
• The block library Every block that ships: what it is for, its fields, and its style settings.
• Style settings reference Every setting in the Style and Layout tabs, its choices, and the CSS it becomes.
• Permissions reference Every permission, what it allows, and which roles hold it on a new install.
• MIT License The terms Thallo is released under.
• Changelog What changed in each release of Thallo, newest first.
• Known limitations The current boundaries of the Developer Preview, stated plainly.

Operations

• Running Thallo in production What a production site needs: the web server, the scheduler, the queue, and what each capability adds.
• Upgrading Thallo The upgrade sequence, and how to know when a newer Thallo is out.
• The scheduler and the queue The one cron line every site needs, what runs on it, and three ways to run background jobs.
• Back up and restore What to back up, the backup job that ships, and how to restore a site.
• Health checks and troubleshooting Find out what is wrong: the doctor, the Health page, the logs, and the usual causes.
• Security What Thallo protects by default, the secrets a site holds, and what is yours to do.
• Turn on workspaces Enable multi-tenancy in stages, give each workspace its domain, and turn it off again.