AliothPress Plugins: Extend the CMS from the Admin Panel

Everything essential is built in. Plugins take you further.

AliothPress ships complete: content, pages, forms, newsletters, SEO, themes, menus — all in the core, coherent in one panel. Plugins are how the platform grows beyond that: self-contained extensions for the features not every site needs, so nobody's admin gets cluttered with someone else's use case. Install what serves your site, update it with one click from the admin panel — or build your own when you need something truly custom.

1. Download — grab the plugin ZIP from this page. It's a self-contained file with everything you need. Save it to your computer, ready to upload.

2. Install — Admin → Plugins → upload the ZIP and click Enable. Only the site owner can install, and every upload is validated before unpacking.

3. Done — the site restarts itself in a few seconds. Updates arrive right in the admin panel from then on: one click, checksum-verified.

Plugin: Site Search 🔎

v1.0.5

free

A search button in your site's header opens a fast overlay for visitors. Results jump straight to the matching passage on the page and highlight it — no more scanning long pages by eye. Works with every theme in dark and light mode, on desktop and mobile, in all 31 languages. Powered by the same content-search API your site already exposes to AI agents.

Requires AliothPress 2.3+ · No configuration needed · Uninstalls without a trace

Plugin: Pop-up Manager 💬

v1.3.6

free

Create pop-ups the same way you create posts: write one, translate it into your active languages, and visitors see it in the language of the page they're reading. A built-in editor lets you format text and insert buttons styled by your active theme — no external services, no tracking, nothing loaded from third parties. You decide when it appears (delay, scroll, exit intent), how often per visitor, and where: the whole site or hand-picked pages. One pop-up per page, always — overlapping pop-ups resolve predictably instead of stacking.

Requires AliothPress 2.3+ · Admin in all 31 languages · Delete and re-upload anytime — your data and settings survive

Plugin: Review Manager ⭐

v1.1.4

free

Let visitors leave star-rated reviews — name, stars, text, and nothing else: no accounts, no e‑mail collection, no cookies, no external services. Each review remembers the language of the page it was written on, and visitors see reviews in the language of the page they're reading, while the overall rating counts every language. New reviews wait in a moderation queue with one-click and bulk actions, and can notify you by e‑mail; you can reply to any review publicly, under your site's name. IP addresses are kept only for spam protection and deleted automatically after a few days — you choose how many. Reviews are published with schema.org markup, so search engines and AI assistants read your ratings as structured data.

Requires AliothPress 2.3+ · Visitor-facing UI in all 31 languages · Delete and re-upload anytime — your data and settings survive

Plugin: AI Visibility 📡

v1.0.6

free

See your site the way AI does: which AI crawlers visit and what they actually read, whether /llms.txt, robots.txt and your sitemap get fetched, and which visitors arrive from AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity or Copilot. A tiny cookieless beacon (~400 bytes, inline, nothing loaded from third parties) counts human page views without storing personal data. You decide how long data is kept — from 90 days to two years — and can add your own bot signatures to track crawlers the built-in list doesn't know yet.

Requires AliothPress 2.4+ · Admin in all 31 languages · No cookies, no third-party requests

Build your own — or sell it. A plugin is a folder with a manifest and one Python entry point — admin pages, public routes, own database tables, and translations included. Third-party plugins are first-class citizens: distribute yours as a plain ZIP, freely or as a product you sell — and vetted plugins can join the official catalog, with built-in license keys and one-click updates. The developer guide walks you through it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need plugins to run my site?
The core covers the essentials of a website on its own — you can launch and run without installing anything. Plugins add capabilities beyond that, like the search overlay, multilingual pop-ups and visitor reviews below, and keep the admin lean for everyone who doesn't need them.
What if I need a feature that doesn't exist yet?
The plugin system is open: a documented API, a developer guide, and support for third-party and self-written plugins — free or sold by their authors. If your requirements grow, the platform grows with them.
Are plugins safe?
A plugin runs with the same permissions as the CMS itself — installed code is trusted code. That's why installation is restricted to the site owner, uploads are validated before unpacking, and we recommend installing only from sources you trust.
Do plugins survive CMS updates?
Yes. The updater never touches the plugins folder, and the pre-update backup includes your plugins too.
How do plugin updates work?
Your admin panel checks for plugin updates automatically once a day (and on demand). When a new version is available, you see the changelog and update with one click — the download is checksum-verified and your settings are kept.
Can I write my own plugin?
Yes — third-party and self-written plugins are explicitly supported. See the developer guide.