An overview of the PressTag admin, content types, editorial workflow, templates, and headless API — written for editors and developers alike.
PressTag is a multi-tenant, headless CMS. "Headless" means your writers and editors work in the PressTag admin, while your website's design lives in its own frontend — connected to PressTag through a content API.
Articles, live blogs, web stories, photo galleries, categories, tags, authors, and your media library — all managed from one admin panel.
The design and layout your readers see. It can be built in Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, or any framework that can call a REST API, or you can launch on one of PressTag's five built-in templates.
The dashboard is where your editorial team spends most of its time: drafting articles in the built-in TinyMCE rich editor, managing the media library, and tracking each piece through the editorial workflow, from draft to published.
PressTag ships with the content types digital publishers actually use, so you're not stitching them together from plugins.
Standard long-form and news articles with rich text, embedded media, and SEO fields.
Timestamped, real-time entries for match-day or breaking news coverage.
Full-screen, mobile-first visual story format.
Multi-image galleries with captions, credits, and CDN-backed delivery.
Live blog entries are appended to a running post in real time and delivered to your frontend as they're published — built for cricket, football, and other match-day coverage where updates need to appear instantly, without waiting on a plugin to sync.
Every article gets a built-in SEO score as your editor writes — covering things like title length, meta description, heading structure, and image alt text — so issues get caught before publishing instead of after.
If you don't want to build a custom frontend, PressTag includes five ready-made, SEO-friendly templates so every publication doesn't have to look identical.
Content moves through a clear approval chain, with permissions matched to each role.
| Role | Can do |
|---|---|
| Author | Write and submit articles for review |
| Editor | Review, edit, and approve author submissions |
| Admin | Publish content, manage users, and configure the tenant |
PressTag automatically tracks every slug an article has ever used. If you rename a URL, or migrate from another CMS, old links automatically 301-redirect to the current one — no manual redirect rules to maintain.
Every piece of content in PressTag is available as JSON through a REST API, so your frontend can be built in any framework.
// Fetch the latest published articles for a tenant GET https://api.getpresstag.com/v1/articles?status=published&limit=10 Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Responses return plain JSON, ready to render in Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, or any framework of your choice.
One PressTag backend can power several independent publications at once. Each tenant gets its own data isolation, admin users, and branding — useful for media groups running more than one title without standing up separate infrastructure for each.
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