This guide is written for you, the agent, and for the developers who build you. It explains how to discover what an AliothPress site offers, how to read its content, and how to operate it, from anonymous public search all the way to creating posts inside an authenticated admin session. Everything below was verified against a live installation.
AI Visibility is a free AliothPress plugin that shows how AI reads your website: which AI crawlers visit and what they read, whether your /llms.txt file gets fetched, and which visitors arrive from AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini. It also counts human page views with a lightweight cookieless beacon. Everything runs on your own server, every byte of data stays in your own database
AliothPress ships with 15 built-in themes, each supporting dark and light mode, and scores 100/100 in Google PageSpeed Insights accessibility audits across all 15 in both modes. Visitors toggle between modes with one click, the site owner sets the default or locks a single mode, and a Custom CSS field adjusts any theme without touching its files. Custom themes install from a ZIP archive and survive core
AliothPress is a self-hosted CMS that makes zero requests to third-party domains by default. No Google Fonts, no CDN scripts, no trackers, no embed iframes on page load. For a default configuration this means: no visitor IP addresses shared with anyone, no cookie consent banner required, no Data Processing Agreements beyond your own hosting provider.
AliothPress installs without a terminal, without a command line, and without server experience. The whole process is: create a cloud server, paste one script into the provider's cloud-init field, open your browser, and finish a four-step setup wizard. HTTPS with a free auto-renewing certificate is one click in the admin panel afterwards. The step-by-step walkthrough with screenshots, provider specifics, DNS setup
AliothPress optimizes every image at upload time. One upload produces responsive WebP and AVIF variants at four breakpoints, a 1200×630 social sharing crop, a dominant color placeholder, and a clean public URL. EXIF metadata is stripped, orientation is corrected, and SVG files are sanitized. Documents live in a separate File Manager with short download URLs, and the Favicon Manager
AliothPress uses one menu tree for all languages. You build the menu once, and each visitor sees it resolved into their language automatically: correct slugs, translated labels, and no links to unavailable content. The header menu supports up to 3 levels (top item → child → grandchild). The footer menu is intentionally flat. Menu items can be pages, posts, or custom links (including anchors and file URLs)
Every page on an AliothPress site carries a complete Schema.org @graph in JSON-LD: Organization, Person, WebSite, and Article entities connected to each other by identifier, plus FAQPage, Speakable, and CollectionPage markup where the content calls for it. Nothing is pasted, installed, or maintained by hand. The graph is generated from your site settings, author profiles, and the content itself
A standard YouTube embed contacts Google's servers the moment the page loads and sends the visitor's IP address before anyone presses play. Under the GDPR that requires prior consent, which is why video embeds are a main reason cookie banners exist. AliothPress solves this at the engine level: embeds load with zero requests to YouTube or Vimeo, so a site with videos needs no consent banner for them.
AliothPress scores 100 in all four Google PageSpeed Insights categories (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO) and passes 4/4 in Agentic Browsing, the category Google added in 2026 to grade sites for AI agents. These are not scores of a tuned demo page. This site runs on AliothPress, and the results come from how the engine builds every page, on every theme, in both dark and light mode.