From the first commit to today, every release makes VeloCMS more powerful. Here's the whole story — newest first.
Importing from a WordPress site by its URL now finds your published posts and pages on public sites. Before, many public sites were analysed as empty. If the import cannot reach the site at all, it now ends as failed instead of reporting a ready import with nothing in it.
The monthly or annual choice you make on the pricing page now carries through signup into your 14-day trial checkout, and annual saves 20%.
A new blog now shows one clear "No posts yet" message in your theme's own style instead of fake article cards, and the lone page "1" is gone. Posts without a cover image no longer leave an empty grey box on listings, post pages or related-posts rows. Covers that do exist are real images with the post title as alt text, which helps Google Images find them.
The Arabic home page now points search engines to /ar as its address, with matching English, Arabic and default language links, and post language links respect a custom blog path such as /news. Paginated blog and category pages can be indexed, and a page number past the last one returns a proper 404.
Visitors who turn motion off now get a still page on all twelve animated themes. Ten of them animate with CSS only and used to ignore the switch, and they now show it too.
With "show once" on, the newsletter popup now stays closed on later visits from the same browser, and readers who subscribed never see it again. It always behaved this way in the settings hint, and now it does in practice.
Auto Tags now runs once when a post goes live, whether you publish from the editor, in bulk, through the API or on a schedule, and it matches whole words only. The editor shows the added tags right after you publish, so the next Save does not remove them.
Shipping labels created through ShipStation now download as a real PDF from your admin, so you can print them straight away.
Arabic pages no longer wait for a separate right-to-left stylesheet, since the few rules they need are now part of the page itself. Page-builder pages download the code only for the blocks they contain.
Shippo, ShipStation, TaxJar and Tapfiliate now have their own marketplace pages, along with the Memo Garamond theme and the Author Card and Newsletter Popup plugins. Each page describes what the item does, with an Arabic version written by hand.
Appointments now has a Team tab where you add staff, rooms or bays and assign them to services. Customers can pick a team member while booking, and two people can be booked at the same time when they are with different staff or in different rooms.
Each author can add a short bio and social profile links to their own profile, and the Author Card shows them under every post. Only web links starting with http or https are shown, and you can edit your own profile only.
See which tracked links and posts get clicks, and on which days, over the last 7, 30 or 90 days, and export the report as CSV.
If a WordPress URL import is interrupted, it picks up from the saved page instead of starting over, and the wizard offers a fallback. When the site answers with a server error or refuses access, the import says so honestly.
The Top posts card now shows real page views from the last 30 days, updated every 6 hours. They come from VeloCMS's own first-party beacon, with no cookies and no stored IPs, and bot traffic is filtered out. Every page a reader opens counts, including clicks between your posts.
The API settings page now shows how many API calls your plan allows per day, so you can see your limit before an integration reaches it.
Embedded video and audio now come across when you import from WordPress. The import guide lists exactly what moves (posts, pages, categories, tags, and media) and what does not (comments, user accounts, custom post types, and plugin data), so there are no surprises after you switch.
Sign in with two-factor authentication directly on your site's own domain, such as blog.example.com/login, not only on a velocms.org address. The security check on the sign-in page also appears again after you sign out.
A new theme for independent garages and MOT stations, now in the theme marketplace and the setup wizard. The home page lists your own services and fixed prices from your Appointments setup, each with a Book button that opens the booking form with that service already selected. Phone, address, accreditations and reviews appear only once you add them, and mobile visitors get a call-and-book bar that stays on screen.
The Arabic web fonts are about half their old size (Noto Sans Arabic from 166 KB to 78 KB, Noto Kufi Arabic from 124 KB to 63 KB) and the letters render identically. The Arabic homepage now downloads about 2.2 MB instead of 5.4 MB.
Add your own questions to any appointment service, such as the reason for a visit, and mark each one required or optional. Customers answer them when they book, and the answers appear on the booking in your dashboard. A service that already has bookings can be turned off instead of deleted, so it disappears from your booking page while its history stays.
Order confirmations, booking reminders, event updates, gift card emails, sign-in links, and newsletters now arrive from your own verified domain. Available on Business and Agency plans.
Ban a member from your site and they cannot request sign-in links, redeem existing links, or stay signed in on subsequent visits. Site owners control this with a single toggle in the dashboard.
Restaurants can now require a deposit through the owner's own Stripe account to confirm a reservation, and instantly mark entire date ranges as closed or private events — keeping the public booking form clear without manual 'call us' requests.
Site owners can now approve comments before they appear, set a word blocklist to catch spam automatically, and turn on auto-ban for repeat spammers — keeping conversations civil without the constant manual work.
In Settings, site owners can now pick which languages their posts are eligible to be translated into. The selection drives the per-post Translations screen and Bulk Translate tool. Available on Pro plans and above.
Schedule a post to go live at a specific date and time — it publishes automatically within a few minutes of the scheduled time, no 'publish now' button needed. Perfect for content calendars and time zones that don't match yours.
Eleven themes that were written for a specific niche now let you replace their built-in wording from Settings, so a food, law or craft theme can speak for your business instead. Your site logo displays consistently on the themes you choose.
Shopify and WordPress store imports now preserve store logos, favicons, and (for Shopify scrapes) real product variants, so your migrated catalog stays complete. Shop cards display a second product image on hover for a richer preview.
The campaign editor now has a merge-tag picker. Insert {{first_name}}, {{email}}, {{tier}} or {{unsubscribe_url}}. Readers get newsletters that feel written just for them.
Pages pulled in from a WordPress import are converted straight into VeloCMS's own drag-and-drop blocks — columns, galleries, buttons and all — with a clear note in the editor if anything needed a closer look, so your migrated content is something you can actually rearrange, not just a frozen snapshot.
Your /ar news page and Arabic homepage now show the Arabic version of each post — title, excerpt and link — instead of quietly falling back to English, so a bilingual site actually reads as bilingual for every visitor.
The page builder's icon-box block now accepts an image alongside — or instead of — its icon, so a features section imported from another site keeps its original photos instead of losing them to a generic glyph.
Export a CSV or archive from Mailchimp, Kit (ConvertKit), or beehiiv and a guided wizard maps your posts and subscriber list straight into VeloCMS — so switching newsletter platforms no longer means losing your back catalog or starting your list from zero.
Link a print product to any photo album from your dashboard and a 'Buy a print' button appears right on your portfolio page — shoppers pick the photo they want printed and check out without ever leaving your site.
Add an intro, a hero image, and featured posts to any category and it becomes a real destination page instead of just a filtered list — and a category with too little in it yet stays out of search results automatically, so nothing thin ever gets indexed as filler.
Connect your PostHog account and get session recordings, funnels, and full product analytics alongside your built-in traffic dashboard — consent-gated like every other analytics connector, so nothing tracks a visitor until they agree.
When a buyer checks out with a digital download and a physical product in the same cart, the order now shows two independent fulfillment tracks — the digital item unlocks instantly while the physical item moves through pack, ship, and deliver — so nobody is left wondering why part of their order is 'done' and part isn't.
Ticketed events can now be marked unlimited capacity, ideal for webinars, livestreams, or open registrations where there's no physical seat count to enforce — no more picking an arbitrary high number just to avoid a sold-out banner.
Every blog category now has its own dedicated RSS feed, so readers who only care about your tutorials — or only your travel posts — can subscribe to exactly that, without the rest of your site's updates cluttering their reader.
Post covers on the Aperture theme now surface camera, lens, and exposure details straight from the photo's metadata, and each post carries structured image data that helps search engines show richer previews — a small detail that makes a photography blog feel like a real portfolio.
The post editor enriches your content with tables featuring header rows and captions, embedded videos and audio from YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, Instagram, and Pinterest that load only when readers click, responsive galleries with lightbox zoom and drag-to-reorder, inline call-to-action buttons, and slash-command shortcuts in English, Arabic, and Turkish. Build richer stories without leaving the editor.
All 40 public themes — blog listings, posts, product pages, and standalone pages — now format every date through one shared helper that honors your site's language and word order, so a site set to Arabic, French, or any other language shows dates the way its readers actually expect instead of hard-coded English, with a built-in safeguard that keeps future themes from slipping back.
If you manage a client's site, the new Growth Reports page turns your dashboard's own numbers into a plain-English monthly report — a clear headline, six sections tracking month-over-month change, an honest note on anything not yet connected, and room for your own commentary — ready to publish to your client with one confirmation, and to print straight to PDF, in English or Arabic.
Every bookable service now has a 'Bays / concurrent appointments' setting — a garage with three bays, a salon with two chairs, or a studio with one room each get booking slots that match their real capacity, instead of one appointment blocking out the whole day.
Every booked appointment now sends an SMS reminder as the time approaches, so fewer customers miss their slot and you spend less time chasing no-shows by phone.
The post editor toolbar now features an AI Assistant button that opens the same smart panel the slash command provides, and dashboard actions throughout your interface now confirm via consistent, localized dialogs instead of browser popups, making every interaction feel more professional.
Export your Squarespace site as a WordPress-format XML file and VeloCMS reads it directly — posts, pages, and images map in automatically, with an honest report of everything Squarespace's export leaves out.
Connect a Webflow site token and VeloCMS walks you through choosing CMS collections, mapping their fields, and importing everything as drafts — or use the CSV fallback if you'd rather not grant API access.
Paste your Wix site's public address and VeloCMS reads your blog feed, sitemap, and pages directly — posts, pages, and store products arrive as drafts with images re-hosted automatically, no login or API key required.
Connect Google Search Console and your posts show real clicks, impressions, and average position straight in the editor — plus an honest indexing check that tells you when Google has actually picked up a new page, and a dashboard with your top queries and pages.
Your photo and media albums now render in responsive masonry that respects each image's aspect ratio, launch fullscreen lightbox zoom for every asset, and link seamlessly between albums — so your readers navigate your portfolio intuitively.
A built-in product Q&A lets shoppers ask about a product before buying, with your answers published under the listing — spam-guarded submissions, a moderation queue in your dashboard, and Q&A blocks you can place anywhere.
Shoppers can attach up to three photos to their product reviews — uploads are size-capped and spam-guarded, thumbnails render in the review list, and your moderation view shows every image before it goes live.
Physical-product sellers can now purchase a real shipping label for an order without leaving VeloCMS — cheapest rate picked automatically, the label and tracking number saved onto the order, with configurable carrier and package settings.
Rail eligibility is now transparent on your checkout — customers see only Stripe, PayPal, Lemon Squeezy, or local options that actually support their region, with honest notes on why an option isn't available, so no one hits a dead end mid-purchase.
The Canva image picker now distinguishes between 'not connected' and 'reconnect needed' states, handles multi-page design selection gracefully, performs automatic retry on transient failures, and surfaces import errors clearly — so your design workflow never gets blocked.
A new comprehensive guide on /compare walks prospective customers through how blogging platforms differ, what matters most, and where each (including VeloCMS) excels — with honest trade-offs, dual comparison tables, and links to full /vs/ breakdowns.
An always-on dashboard alarm monitors your Stripe subscription renewals and notifies you the moment one goes stale — catching webhook failures before your paying readers lose access, with a clear action to reconnect your payments.
Run a site audit and get a clear, shareable email summary as soon as the scan completes — scores, fixes, and a direct link back to the report — so you never have to keep the tab open.
Your posts, products, and homepage now share one connected structured-data graph — every schema node references the others, so search engines and AI answer engines understand your site as a whole instead of isolated pages.
Open your plan card in Admin → Billing and upgrade or downgrade right there. Sites without a plan yet start checkout instantly; paid sites jump straight to the Stripe Customer Portal.
The /vs/ library now uses a flexible new template with gap cards, honest-when trade-offs, dual comparison tables, pricing breakdowns, and archetype guidance — so every comparison reads like a real buyer's guide, not a brochure.
Open Admin → Setup and see a live checklist of your site's readiness — domain and sender email verification, your first post, an active theme, and more — each one marked done, needs attention, or on its way, so nothing quietly gets left behind before you go live.
A new help guide and clearer notes right where you pick a payment provider tell you upfront which rails — Stripe, PayPal, Lemon Squeezy, or local options — actually support sellers where you live, so you never hit a dead end mid-setup.
From your sidebar and stats to every table and form, the whole VeloCMS dashboard now runs on a fresh, more polished design — cleaner cards, richer illustrations, and a consistent feel across posts, commerce, billing, and plugins.
The new garage booking flow pulls a vehicle's make, model, and MOT/tax status straight from a UK number plate at the point of booking, and lets a garage manage several bays as separate booking slots. Every confirmed appointment now gets an automatic email reminder the day before and again a couple of hours ahead — turning a garage's VeloCMS site into a real booking and workshop tool, not just a brochure page. Text reminders tied to a vehicle's MOT due date are built and coming next.
Your published albums now get a public home at /portfolio — a fast gallery index with tag filters, plus a dedicated page per album, styled by whichever theme you run.
For photography sites and anyone with watermarking on, every upload is processed before it goes public: GPS coordinates and camera identity are stripped from the served file, your watermark is applied, and the untouched original stays in private storage.
Search for the perfect name and register it in a couple of clicks — no separate registrar account, no DNS wrangling. Your new domain wires straight to your blog.
Scroll through a handmade pottery workshop: the scene travels behind your page while your headline, latest posts and shop assemble on stage.
Your readers can now share posts to X, LinkedIn, or their system's default share target — and a live reading progress bar shows how much of the post is left. Every theme displays them automatically.
Theme component overrides are now wired into every post layout — tenants who add custom blocks to their theme's header, post, or footer areas see those elements everywhere their posts appear, not just in isolation.
Readers with motion sensitivity can now pause looping animations and cinematic effects on themes that use them — WCAG SC 2.2.2 compliance means everyone can enjoy your design without discomfort.
When an event's ticket tier sells out, readers see a "Join waitlist" button. They enter their name and email once, then you can notify them the moment new tickets open or the event gets rescheduled.
A wrong link, a sign-in, a subscribe prompt — the pages a reader hits by accident used to look like nobody's site. Now all 39 themes draw their own. The terminal theme answers a missing page like a shell would; the gallery theme writes a wall label for a work not on display; the wire-service theme asks you to report to the copy desk. Same typography, same palette, same voice as the rest of your blog.
Drop in a Shopify product card and browse your own catalogue right there in the page builder — search it, see the photo and the price, pick the one you meant. Until now you had to remember the product's handle and type it from memory, which is a strange thing to ask of anyone who owns the store.
Pick services and appointments during setup and you land with a services page, a first service ready to edit, and opening hours already filled in for the week — so a client can book you before you have written a single post.
Answer the setup questions and your site is built for you — a home page, an about page, your menu, and categories that match what you told us you are making. Nothing to assemble by hand before you start writing.
Create ticket tiers with their own prices, capacity, and sale windows, then publish the event when you are ready. Your attendees buy straight from the event page.
n8n-nodes-velocms is live on npm — publish posts, upload media, moderate comments, and react to webhooks from your n8n workflows, no custom code required.
The official VeloCMS MCP server (@velocms/mcp on npm) lets you draft, publish, and manage posts from Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor with a single API key.
The dashboard search now understands what you mean — type "domain", a post title, or even a typo, and jump straight to the right page, setting, action, or piece of content, grouped and ranked as you type.
Build your content strategy in Outrank, then automatically import each article as a draft post to VeloCMS with a single webhook — no copy-paste, no re-keying, just your best writing ready to review and publish.
Your entire theme collection now ships with bespoke mobile menus, cart experiences, and shop layouts. No more one-size-fits-all stores — every theme's design language extends seamlessly into commerce.
Every design theme now has its own shop layout, mobile menu, and cart experience — no two stores look the same. The raw-data shop contract means your theme shapes the commerce experience, not the other way around.
Built for AI publications and signal services. Live ticker feeds, curated briefing wire, signal index, and a typography pairing that feels like professional journalism—all responsive and thematic from newsroom to storefront.
Use your own domain on any registrar — GoDaddy, Namecheap, Route53, or your Cloudflare DNS. VeloCMS detects your setup and gives you the exact DNS records you need. No Enterprise Cloudflare plan required.
A fresh animation collection: a measured law-firm masthead, a naturalist's dark-sky journal, a chef's recipe book, a touring musician's stage, a calm therapist's practice, a collector's museum, and a maker's workbench — each with its own typography, motion, and mood.
Send purchase events straight from your server via Meta Conversions API + TikTok Events API — accurate attribution even when browser pixels are blocked.
Connect Printful, Gelato, or Printify and every paid physical order is sent to your provider for printing + shipping automatically — no manual re-keying.
Drop a Calendly scheduling widget onto any page or post — just paste your public link, no account connection needed. Perfect for coaches, consultants, and anyone selling their time.
US sellers who already run TaxJar as their system of record can now connect it to VeloCMS. Configure your nexus once and compute accurate sales tax from the same source your accountant trusts.
Selling an app, plugin, or font? Every purchase now issues a real license key automatically — delivered to the buyer and always recoverable from their order page. A whole new product category on VeloCMS.
Every physical order flows into your Shippo dashboard the moment it's paid, ready for a shipping label — with the buyer's address and items already filled in. No more re-keying orders by hand.
Sell your own inventory? Paid orders appear in ShipStation's Awaiting Shipment queue instantly, with the right ship-to address and line items. Your fulfillment workflow stays in one place.
Running an affiliate program with Tapfiliate? Every completed order is now reported as a conversion automatically, so your affiliates get credited for the sales they drive — no manual tracking.
Turn on Rewardful and every checkout carries its referral through to Stripe, so your affiliate program credits the right partner for each sale — the growth lever creator businesses live on.
Connect your HubSpot account in one click. New readers become Contacts automatically, and every completed order becomes a Deal — no manual exports, no spreadsheets.
Drag any block directly onto a section or container in the page editor and it nests inside automatically. Reorder blocks within containers just like you would at the root level. Your visual editor now matches how the published page renders.
Let shoppers buy gift cards for anyone, delivered by email with a unique code. Redeem them at checkout with flexible amounts, and issue gift cards yourself from the dashboard for promotions and refunds.
Trigger actions in Zapier or Make when your readers subscribe, purchase, or when you issue gift cards. Build automations without code — connect to email, spreadsheets, CRM, forms, and thousands of other apps.
Sync every sale to your Xero accounting instantly, and import your Etsy shop's active listings as draft products with one click.
Let customers buy a gift card for anyone — delivered by email with a unique code and redeemed at checkout. You can also issue gift cards yourself from the dashboard for promotions or refunds.
Sell custom merch with zero inventory: connect Printify or Printful and have paid physical orders sent to them for production and shipping. And see exactly how visitors move through your site with Microsoft Clarity's free heatmaps and session replays.
Sync new members to your Brevo or MailerLite email lists, announce fresh posts straight to a Discord channel, and sell print-on-demand products through Gelato — each connected in a few clicks.
Show shoppers the products that pair with what they're viewing — upsells, cross-sells and frequently-bought-together picks, curated by you or learned from real purchases.
Sync your members and events straight into the tools you already run — email automation with ActiveCampaign, community with Circle.so, and thousands of apps through Pabbly Connect.
Answer a few questions about your business, and VeloCMS sets up your entire site for you: the right theme, the plugins you need, your first post, and a live store if you want one. Import your content from Instagram, Shopify, or WordPress in one step. Upload your logo, and you're ready to launch. No configuration, no guessing — just your site, ready to go.
The page builder canvas now features a crisp, professional selection frame inspired by Relume's design: clean 1.5px solid indigo border with sharp corners and intelligent 8-point resize handles. Every block you click springs into view with FLIP-optimized motion. Grab corners to resize; see your changes in real-time. Zero visual clutter, pure editing flow.
Every theme — from monospaced code-first Terminal to editorial Velvet to minimalist Engineering — now renders a fully themed shop catalog, product pages, and checkout experience. VeloCMS uses intelligent archetype patterns so your store feels like an extension of your brand, not a generic add-on. Buyers see cart, checkout, and tracking pages that match your chosen aesthetic.
Bring customers back without paid ads. They add out-of-stock items to a wishlist and get a ping when it's back. Abandoned carts recover automatically with a gentle email reminder — and if prices drop on items they saved, they know. VeloCMS includes these for free because Shopify charges $10–40/month for each feature separately.
Your readers can heart products they love and keep tabs on the price. You get visibility into what they want, and they get nudged back when prices dip or stock runs low. It's the free layer of the Conversion Suite that turns browsers into buyers.
Physical store orders now flow through a complete lifecycle: customers get free shipping automatically when their cart hits your threshold, can leave a note with their order, and store owners get a dedicated Unfulfilled queue to pick, pack, and ship with confidence. Every buyer also gets a private link to track their order and follow the carrier — Evri, DHL, Aramex and more — right to the door.
An open REST API, HMAC-signed webhooks, and live event triggers — plus an n8n connector — so creators and agencies wire their content, store, and members into n8n, Zapier, Make and thousands of automation tools.
Creators can now drop YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, and CodePen embeds into any page block. GDPR-respectful click-to-load facade + zero tenant configuration.
The entire VeloCMS site now speaks Arabic at /ar — every landing page, comparison guide, and all 194 Help Center articles, hand-crafted in native Modern Standard Arabic with full right-to-left design.
Your blog, admin dashboard, and reader emails now work flawlessly in Arabic with proper right-to-left layout — opening VeloCMS to MENA region readers and creators.
Accept payments with automatic global tax handling — creators get full margin without navigating VAT in every country.
Let clients book time slots that sync straight to your Google Calendar — photographers, coaches, and service pros can take appointments right on their VeloCMS site.
Automatically sync your subscribers to Klaviyo — track orders, revenue per subscriber, and send smarter campaigns.
Get real-time alerts for signups, orders, comments, and publishing activity — everything your audience is doing.
Protect your site from spam on custom domains with Cloudflare Turnstile — bring your own keys, zero platform overhead.
Accept PayPal, PayPal Credit, and Pay Later payments at checkout. Bring your own API keys.
Let customers rate and review your products. Show AggregateRating stars in search results.
Meta + TikTok pixel tracking, conversion APIs, and GDPR consent controls all in one plugin.
Group posts into binge-able Part 1–N with automatic next / previous navigation.
Auto-generated, on-brand 1200×630 share images for every post — zero design work.
Scan all content for dead links and fix them with one-click 301 redirects.
An AI wizard that picks your plugins and theme, then imports your content automatically.
Pull posts in from Instagram, YouTube, and Shopify in a single click.
Every published or updated post pings Bing and Yandex instantly — zero tenant configuration needed.
Edit your live page directly — drag blocks into place and watch it update in real time.
Multiple paid tiers, each with its own per-tier content gating.
Bring your entire site over from WordPress or Substack, intact.
One-tap checkout for readers on every device — no card details to type.
Every image you upload gets a screen-reader-ready alt tag written automatically.
Translate any post into multiple languages and let search engines index them all correctly.
A full Core Web Vitals overhaul across every single theme.
20+ first-party plugins, each one click to install. The ecosystem is open.
Lightning-fast search across every post — readers find anything the moment they start typing, no paid search service required.
Browse and install premium themes crafted by independent designers — one click to a whole new look.
Turkish and Arabic locales shipped out of the box, with full right-to-left layout support.
Dedicated conversion pages for photographers, podcasters, coaches, lawyers, and 96 more — every creator archetype covered.
Sell physical and digital products right alongside your blog.
Every theme rebuilt mobile-first and verified to WCAG AA contrast.
Compose visual layouts with palette, canvas, and inspector — no code.
One-click data export, account deletion, authenticator-app 2FA, and passkey login — compliance and security sorted.
50+ /vs/ and /alternatives-to/ pages purpose-built for AI search engines to surface VeloCMS in every comparison query.
Sell courses with drip lessons, quizzes, Stripe enrollment, and certificate PDFs — a full learning platform built in.
Sell tickets, manage attendees, and send .ics calendar invites — event pages live in minutes.
Sell ebooks, presets, and downloads with secure R2 delivery and instant Stripe checkout.
Invite co-writers, assign roles, and manage editorial review — built for teams from day one.
Magic-link reader accounts and paywalled posts — bring your own Stripe.
Newsletters, comments, analytics, and instant search — all wired in one place.
Go pro and bring your own domain. Your brand, your URL.
99 answer-engine-optimized articles, live from day one.
Every blog fully isolated on its own subdomain.
Real-time content optimization, scored as you type.
Streaming, inline AI assistance built right into the editor.
Swap your entire look in a single click.
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