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fastCMS documentation

The same plain-English guides you'll find inside the admin behind the ? button.

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Installing fastCMS

fastCMS installs like a classic PHP script: upload the files, open your site, fill in one form. It takes about two minutes.

Getting started

Welcome to fastCMS. In about half an hour you can go from an empty site to a planned blog whose articles are being written for yo…

AI

Finding a niche

The niche you choose matters more than anything else about a new blog. The Niche Finder takes you from "I'm interested in coffee"…

Building a blog with AI Autopilot

AI Autopilot plans and writes a whole blog. Nothing is written until you approve the plan.

AI providers, models and costs

fastCMS works with three AI providers. You only need one key; add more and fastCMS picks the right model for each job.

Content

Writing and editing

In Articles, click New article or open one to edit it.

Images

Everything lives in the Media library. Images are resized and converted to modern WebP automatically, in several sizes, so pages …

Themes and appearance

Themes has six designs:

Earn & grow

Earning from your blog

Everything is on the Monetization page.

Email digest

Your subscribers are the one audience no search engine or social network can take away. The email digest sends them your new arti…

Where to promote

Google takes months to trust a new blog. In the meantime your readers are already talking about your subject somewhere: in subred…

Auto-posting

fastCMS can share every new article on your own channels for you: Bluesky, Mastodon, a Telegram channel, a Discord server, and Pi…

Growth, Google and Bing

The Growth page shows how Google and Bing see your articles and helps you improve the ones that are close to doing well. Connect …

Visitors

Visitors shows who comes to your site, where they come from and what they read. It's counted on your own site: there's nothing to…