Prime Core CMS — Modern PHP CMS with AI Suite & Headless

Prime Core CMS — Everything Built-In. Nothing Bolted-On.

Most CMS platforms have become bloated monsters. WordPress needs 50+ database queries per page load, dozens of plugins, and a PHP ecosystem just to function. Ghost requires Node.js. Craft CMS needs Composer.

Prime Core takes a different approach. A complete, production-ready content management system that requires nothing but PHP 8.0+ and MySQL. No Composer. No Node.js. No package manager. No build tools needed in production. Upload the files, run the installer, and you're live in two minutes.

Why Prime Core is Different

42 Features Included Out of the Box

🤖 AI Suite (Bring Your Own Key)

• AI Writing Assistant integrated into TinyMCE — improve, expand, shorten, change tone, translate
• AI SEO Optimizer — auto-suggest meta title, description, and keywords
• AI Image Alt-Text via vision model — accessibility on autopilot
• AI Comment Moderation — spam / safe / review classifier with confidence scores
• AI Title Suggester + content idea generator
• AI Newsletter Composer — write email campaigns from your latest posts
• AI Form Analyzer — monthly summary of form submissions with sentiment and suggested actions
• AI Translation — one-click translate posts, pages, and categories into all enabled languages
• AI Usage Tracker — per-feature spend, daily breakdown, 30-day rollup
• Works with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, local Ollama, OpenRouter — your key, your bill, full transparency

🌍 Full Internationalization

• 50 BCP 47 languages pre-registered — toggle which ones are active
• Per-content translations (post / page / category) with own slugs and SEO fields
• Automatic /{lang}/ URL prefix with 301 from default-lang canonical
• RTL support (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu) — parallel rtl.css, no source classes touched
• Fully translatable admin UI (464+ strings) with per-user language preference
• Translations Health Check — coverage matrix, stale drafts, out-of-sync detection
• SEO safety net — hreflang, x-default canonical, sitemap xhtml:link alternates

📧 Email Campaigns & Newsletter

• Full campaign editor with TinyMCE and live iframe preview
• Subscriber segmentation via free-form tags
• Open + click tracking with HMAC-signed pixel and link rewriter
• Scheduled sends with multi-worker safe dispatch
• CAN-SPAM-compliant unsubscribe with two-step GET / POST preview
• Weekly auto-digest from latest posts
• Built-in SMTP mailer using raw sockets — no external email service required

📊 Privacy-First Analytics

• First-party pageview tracking — no third-party scripts, no cookies for the tracker
• Visitor hash uses daily-rotating salt — daily uniques without persistent identifiers
• Dashboard charts: 7 / 30 / 90-day visitors, popular posts, top referrers, devices
• Real-time widget — active visitors in last 5 minutes, polls every 30 seconds
• Per-post analytics card with sparkline and referrer breakdown
• Search query log + 404 log with one-click "Add redirect" quick action
• Admin and bot traffic excluded automatically

🔌 Headless / API

• Full REST API at /api/v1/{posts,pages,categories} — CRUD with scopes
• Personal Access Tokens with granular scopes (posts:read, posts:write, etc.)
• OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec auto-generated at /admin/api/openapi.json
• Interactive Swagger UI at /admin/api/docs
• CORS configuration with allowed-origin allowlist
• Read-only GraphQL endpoint with sub-selection projection

📝 Drag-and-Drop Form Builder

• 10 field types: text, email, number, textarea, select, radio, checkbox, file upload, signature pad, hidden
• Embed forms in any post or page with [form id="X"] shortcode
• Per-form admin email + auto-reply with {{field_name}} placeholder substitution
• Submissions inbox with new / read / spam tabs
• AI Form Analyzer — monthly themes, sentiment, urgent items, suggested actions
• Honeypot + sub-3-second anti-bot timing

🪝 Webhooks & Integrations

• Outbound dispatcher with HMAC SHA-256 signing (GitHub-style)
• Adapters for Slack (Block Kit), Telegram (Bot API), Discord (Embeds), and generic JSON for Zapier / Make / n8n / IFTTT
• 6 built-in events: post.published, post.updated, comment.created, form.submitted, user.registered, newsletter.subscribed
• Exponential-backoff retry (30s / 2m / 8m / 30m, max 5 attempts)
• Per-attempt delivery log with full payload + response body
• Auto-disable after 20 consecutive failures

🔒 Security By Default

• Randomized admin URL path (not /wp-admin)
• TOTP two-factor authentication (RFC 6238)
• OAuth social login: Google, GitHub, Facebook
• Akismet spam filter + 3-layer honeypot + reCAPTCHA v3 / hCaptcha
• CSRF on every form, prepared statements everywhere
• Rate-limited login + IP blocking after attempts
• Bcrypt password hashing (cost 12)
• Content Security Policy headers

📦 Plus All the Content Basics Done Right

• Posts + pages with word-level revision diff
• Categories, tags, comments with threaded replies
• Media library with 4 automatic image variants + responsive srcset
• Menu builder with 3-level nesting
• Sidebar widgets (6 types, drag-and-drop ordering)
• Auto-published scheduled posts via CLI cron
• Full-text search with AJAX autocomplete
• RSS feed + auto-generated sitemap.xml
• Cookie consent banner (GDPR-compliant)
• Backup + restore (database export / import)
• Maintenance mode with bypass for admins
• File-based page caching

🛠 Technical Specs

• PHP: 8.0+
• Database: MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+
• Required extensions: pdo, pdo_mysql, mbstring, json, gd, fileinfo, openssl, curl, session
• Disk space: ~15 MB (core)
• Tables: 35 (default pm_ prefix)
• Theme system: Starter theme included (Tailwind CSS + Outfit / Plus Jakarta Sans / Fira Code typography)
• Cron: CLI runner included for production; in-request fallback for shared hosting

📚 What's Included

• Complete CMS source code (~60 core files + theme)
• Web-based installer with database setup wizard
• Demo content (sample posts, pages, categories) — optional, install or skip
• Starter theme with editorial Rose Gold / Ink design system
• Admin panel with dashboard, analytics, and all 42 feature modules
• Standalone CLI cron runner (cron.php)
• Full documentation (HTML + Markdown)
• Installation guide with nginx + Apache configs
• Changelog covering v1.0 → v1.1 → v1.2
• License file

🚀 Get Started in 2 Minutes

1. Upload files to your server (FTP / cPanel / SSH — any method)
2. Create an empty MySQL database
3. Visit yoursite.com/install in your browser
4. Follow the wizard — DB credentials, admin user, optional demo content
5. You're live

That's it. No Composer install. No npm. No Docker. No build step. Just PHP and MySQL — the way it used to be, the way it should be.