TCMS Source notes

Project record

Changelog and license

The project history records TCMS moving from a fresh PHP, SQLite, JSON, and Markdown blog engine into a remotely managed CMS with a native Mac client.

Changelog

Notable changes

Adapted from the repository changelog, grouped by date.

API and native Mac client

  • Added api.php for .env username/password authenticated remote management of content, media uploads, and comments.
  • Added the AppKit macOS 12+ client under macclient/ for editing posts/pages, uploading media, moderating comments, local autosave, and optional remote draft autosave.
  • Added pagination for post/page lists and media lists, native image preview, audio/video playback, editor media upload, and Markdown/shortcode insertion.
  • Added confirmation sheets, editor spell-check and auto-correct options, Update actions, public media lightbox slideshow, declared shortcodes, and lone-embed.php.
  • Simplified API authentication, rebranded the Mac bundle to TCMS, fixed Mac client resizing and editor behavior, expanded save payload fields, and blocked direct access to .env and macclient/.

Fresh CMS foundation

  • Created a PHP, SQLite, JSON, and Markdown blog CMS with Bludit-style bl-content/pages/<slug>/index.txt folders.
  • Added pretty routing, RSS, sitemap, search, pagination, categories, tags, archives, static pages, social links, and a dark-neon theme with visitor-selectable light mode and accents.
  • Added CLI management for content, settings, social links, comment moderation, stats, and rebuilding generated indexes.
  • Added SQLite comments with moderation, captcha, and honeypot protection plus human-readable CSV visit stats.
  • Added subdirectory installs, Bludit import tooling, trusted Markdown/HTML/iframe/JavaScript/PHP rendering, and smoke tests for core routes and imports.

License

MIT licensed.

TCMS is available under the MIT License, copyright 2026 Tyeme Clifford. The real live blog is available at tyclifford.com/blog.

Clone TCMS

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Tyeme Clifford

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.