Silex Documentation

Welcome to the Silex documentation. Silex is a free and open-source visual website builder — design in the editor, publish anywhere, own your data.

• Quick Start

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  Create your first website in 5 minutes

  Get started

• Tutorial

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  Build a complete portfolio site step by step

  Start tutorial

• Publish My Site

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  Learn how publishing works and go live

  Publishing

• Connect WordPress

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  Use WordPress as a CMS for your Silex site

  WordPress setup

• Responsive Design

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  Build sites that look great on every screen

  Breakpoints

• Symbols & Reuse

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  Create reusable headers, footers, and components

  Symbols

• Self-Host Silex

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  Run Silex on your own server with Docker or Node

  Self-hosting

• Write a Plugin

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  Extend Silex with custom plugins

  Creating plugins

Reading paths

Choose your path based on how you work:

For designers

Learn to build and publish sites visually:

1. Getting Started — What is Silex, Quick Start, The Editor
2. Build and Structure — Pages, Elements, Box Model, Images & Media, Page Structure
3. Layout and Style — Flexbox, Positioning, Typography, Colors & Backgrounds, CSS Variables, Selectors & Classes
4. Responsive Design — Breakpoints, Responsive Techniques, Testing
5. Components and Symbols — Symbols, Design System
6. Settings and SEO — Site Settings, SEO, Social Sharing, Custom Code
7. CMS and Data — How CMS Works, Expressions, WordPress Setup, Connecting a Data Source, Binding Data, Loops & Lists, Conditions, Filters, Collection Pages
8. Publishing — How Publishing Works, Publish to GitLab, Custom Domain, Forms
9. Full Site Tutorial — Project Brief, Structure, Styling, CMS Integration, Publish
10. Contribute — help improve Silex

For developers

Set up, customize, and extend Silex:

1. Self-Hosting — Docker, Node, One-Click Deploys
2. Configuration — Server Config, Client Config, Storage Connectors, Hosting Connectors
3. Plugins — Using Plugins, Creating Plugins
4. Publishing Pipeline — Build awesome Config, GitLab CI, Publication Transformers, Other Hosting
5. CMS Integration — WordPress & Pods, Other GraphQL APIs
6. Contribute — help improve Silex

Get help

Silex is built by a community of volunteers around the world. You're never alone.

• Community chat — real-time help and discussion
• Forum — longer questions and answers
• Report a bug — help us fix problems
• Video tutorials — watch and learn

Get involved

• Contribute — help improve Silex (no coding required)
• Roadmap — vote on features and shape the future
• Donate — support the project financially
• Share what you've built in the community chat — we'd love to see it!

Additional resources

• Glossary — key terms explained
• Roadmap — feature requests and voting
• GitHub — contribute, report issues, view source code