Feature map

This page summarizes functionality present in VerdinCore 4.0.1. Some features are disabled by default and must be enabled per deployment.

Publishing

• Posts and hierarchical pages.

• Draft, scheduled, published, and archived states.

• A separate pending-review flag.

• Soft deletion, restore, and permanent deletion.

• UTC publication scheduling for posts and pages.

• Public and member-only access levels.

• Featured content, unlisted posts, video flags, about pages, and contact pages.

• Word count, estimated reading time, views, and last-viewed time.

• Unique slugs, including Greek to Latin transliteration for generated slugs.

• Optional author reassignment for authorized editors.

Navigation and discovery

• Home and optional blog indexes.

• Date archive with optional text search.

• Topic and topic-group archives.

• Related, featured, popular, and recently viewed post components.

• Hierarchical page URLs and breadcrumbs.

• Configurable pagination and sidebar limits.

• Optional RSS 2.0 feed with excerpts or full content.

Editing

• Tiptap-based full and compact rich-text editors.

• Links, managed images, embeds, YouTube content, and code-aware public rendering.

• Server-side HTML sanitization before storage.

• Transactional saves when content and relationships change together.

• Validation for status, access, hierarchy, slugs, schedules, topics, blocks, and media references.

Reusable blocks

• Named block groups.

• Globally unique block handles.

• Element handles scoped to a block.

• Text, rich-text, link, and image element types.

• Template access to one value or a complete group.

• Orphan cleanup for replaced or deleted block media.

Media

• Featured post, featured page, inline content, and block collections.

• MIME validation, dimension checks, and randomized storage names.

• EXIF-aware image processing.

• AVIF originals and responsive variants for featured and inline images.

• JPEG social-sharing variants for featured images.

• Original-file storage for block images, including SVG where configured.

• Media library filtering by collection, uploader, and sort order.

Identity and presentation

• Four bundled brand configurations: verdincore, verdindynamics, tomgineer, and portfolio.

• Independent brand and theme selection.

• Per-brand identity, contact data, locale, domain, social links, GitHub owner, and Schema.org identity.

• Brand logos, icons, profile images, sharing images, and favicons.

• Separate production bundles for the public theme and admin UI.

Search visibility

• Canonical URLs and standard metadata.

• Open Graph and Twitter card output.

• Schema.org graphs for sites, identities, posts, pages, collections, and breadcrumbs.

• Special AboutPage, ProfilePage, and ContactPage types when a page is flagged accordingly.

• XML and gzip-compressed sitemaps.

• Managed robots.txt directives.

• noindex, private caching headers, and omission from structured data for member-only content.

Authentication and administration

• CodeIgniter Shield session authentication.

• Optional public registration.

• Email-code account activation with a resend cooldown.

• superadmin, admin, editor, and member groups.

• Permission checks on every administrative section and mutation route.

• Dashboard views for content, taxonomy, blocks, media, users, trash, analytics, cron history, logs, and system information.

• Manual cache clear, cron execution, and log cleanup for users with system permission.

Analytics and automation

• First-party daily visitor and page-view counts for the tracked home and post routes.

• Separate published-post view counts.

• Exclusion of authenticated users and detected crawlers.

• Production page caching for guest GET and HEAD requests.

• Scheduled publication and optional automatic featured-post selection.

• Conditional cache clearing after content-changing jobs.

• Media and expired-session cleanup.

• Optional synchronization of public GitHub repositories.

• Per-run cron results with success, partial, or failed status.