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A content management system for Laravel, built on Filament. Editors compose pages visually on the real design of the website. Developers keep plain Laravel: Eloquent models, Blade components, service providers and tests. AI assistants work on the same content with exactly the permissions of the person using them.

Features

A visual editor on the real design. Pages are built from blocks on a canvas that renders the website's own Blade components and stylesheet. Editors type straight onto the page, drag blocks into columns, and switch between desktop, tablet and mobile.
Structured content. Every block is a PHP class with a Filament form, defaults and validation. Pages store blocks as validated JSON, so the same content serves the website, the REST and GraphQL APIs and AI assistants.
A safe publishing workflow. Drafts, review, scheduled publishing, and revisions with one-click restore. Changes to a live page wait until someone publishes them, and edit locks stop two people from overwriting each other.
AI that respects permissions. An MCP server lets Claude and other AI apps read and edit the CMS as the signed-in person, over OAuth. The same tools power an assistant inside the admin, and every AI action is logged.
Everything else a site needs. A media library, a form builder, menus, redirects and a trash. Users with passkeys, two-factor sign-in and roles. Several languages and several websites from one admin. Search, SEO checks, a page cache and webhooks.
Just Laravel. Your website is a Laravel app, and the CMS is a package in it that updates with composer update.

Requirements

PHP 8.3 or newer, with the GD or Imagick extension
Laravel 13
A database: SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL

Installation

The quickest start is the starter app, a Laravel application with Aurora already set up:

composer create-project shipaurora/aurora my-site   # asks a few questions and sets it all up
cd my-site

To add Aurora to an existing Laravel application:

composer require shipaurora/cms
php artisan aurora:install

aurora:install sets up the database and what the CMS needs, publishes the admin's assets and the page layouts, creates your admin account, and offers to build the website's front end (--build to do it without asking). The starter app runs it for you at the end of create-project. Then sign in at /admin.

Aurora comes with its default admin theme, Borealis. Minimal is a second one to choose from.

Usage

php artisan aurora:make-block "Pricing table"   # a block of the website's own
php artisan make:aurora-layout "Campaign"        # a page layout, registered for editors to pick
php artisan make:aurora-user                     # a person, with a role
php artisan aurora:reindex                       # rebuild the search index

Blocks live in the app (app/Blocks), with their views in resources/views/components/blocks. The page layouts are published to resources/views/vendor/aurora/layouts, to make your own.

Documentation

The documentation is at shipaurora.com/docs. It covers the visual editor, blocks, layouts, users and roles, languages, AI, the APIs and configuration.

License

Aurora is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.

shipaurora / cms

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