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Everything you need to install Aurora, build a website on it and run it with your team. Start at the top, or jump to what you need.

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Install Aurora, set it up and see how it fits together.

Installation

Requirements, a new project from the template, and adding Aurora to an existing app.

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Quick setup

Eight steps from a fresh install to a website your team can work on.

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Philosophy and architecture

Why the CMS is a dependency and the website is the app, and what Aurora is built on.

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Using the admin

What editors do every day, screen by screen.

Finding your way

The sidebar, the dashboard, the command palette, search and notifications.

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Pages

The pages list, the page form, previews, edit locks and history.

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Publishing workflow

Drafts, review, scheduling, unpublished changes and revisions.

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The visual editor

Compose pages from blocks on the real design, and translate them.

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Media library

Folders, tags, focal points, image formats and access.

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Forms

Forms with conditional fields, and what to do with the answers.

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Menus, redirects and trash

Navigation that follows your pages, redirects, and getting deleted things back.

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Building a site

For developers: blocks, layouts, settings and search.

Structuring a project

Where your blocks, layouts, CSS and set-up live.

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Creating blocks

A PHP class and a Blade view: what a block is and how to make one.

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Block views and helpers

Render text, links, images and slots with helpers or Blade directives.

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The canvas shows your CSS

How the visual editor shows blocks in the website's own stylesheet.

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Layouts and the website

The views that draw whole pages, and everything Aurora serves.

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Your own settings

Add tabs to Settings and read them in your templates.

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Search

Search live pages with Laravel Scout, per site and language.

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Running a site

People, languages, sites, settings and speed.

Users, roles and permissions

Invitations, sign-in with passkeys, roles in plain language and the activity log.

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Languages and translations

Content in every language, and every label in the admin.

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Several websites

Run more than one website, each with its own domain, from one admin.

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Settings

Every page and tab in Settings, and what each one holds.

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Page cache and access

Serve pages ready-made, and decide who may see them.

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Admin themes

Choose the admin's look, or write a theme of your own.

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Moving from WordPress

Bring pages, posts, images and menus over from a WordPress export.

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AI and integrations

AI assistants, the REST and GraphQL APIs, and webhooks.

AI: MCP, the assistant and Write with AI

Connect Claude and other apps, chat with the assistant, and let AI write and translate.

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REST and GraphQL APIs

Read pages, menus, media and settings from apps, with API keys and scopes.

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Webhooks and events

Tell other systems when content changes, or listen in your own app.

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Reference

Configuration, commands and packages.

Configuration

Every config key, environment variable and publish tag.

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Artisan commands

Install, make blocks, import and keep translations in sync.

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Packages and development

What each package holds, and how to work on Aurora itself.

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Prefer to learn by doing?

The guides walk through real tasks step by step: build a landing page, let Claude draft one, add your own block.

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