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Blog / CMS: Inkwell

Blog and CMS SaaS foundation with posts, editorial workflows, media, analytics, and compliance-ready account flows.

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01Inside Inkwell

Light, editorial, and content-first. Inkwell pairs minimal chrome with maximum readability.

Warm sand palette

Off-white backgrounds feel warmer and less clinical than pure white.

Editorial whitespace

Generous spacing and clear hierarchy let the content breathe.

Classic serif typography

Lora transitional serif creates familiar, comfortable reading patterns.

02What you ship

Every module is production-ready. Not a demo, not a prototype: real features you deploy from day one.

Authentication

Email/password, OAuth, MFA, session management, and password recovery.

Admin Panel

User management, role assignment, system settings, and activity monitoring.

Content Management

Rich text editor, media library, content scheduling, and SEO tooling.

API Layer

RESTful endpoints, OpenAPI docs, rate limiting, and versioning.

03Architecture

Built the way your team would build it.

Every template follows the same architectural patterns regardless of stack. Clean separation of concerns, dependency injection where appropriate, and a consistent project structure that any senior developer can navigate in minutes.

Project structure

Monorepo-ready with clear module boundaries

State management

Framework-native patterns, no unnecessary abstractions

Database

PostgreSQL with migrations, seeds, and typed queries

Testing

Unit, integration, and E2E tests with CI pipeline

Deployment

Docker Compose, health checks, and env management

04Quality Gate

Quality Gate Report

Every template passes a 25-gate quality audit before release. The full report is available from your account.

25/25Quality gates passed
0TypeScript errors
0ESLint warnings
90+Lighthouse (all configs)
TypeScript strict mode: zero type errors
ESLint + Prettier: zero warnings
Zero OWASP findings: dependency audit clean
Accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA compliant
prefers-reduced-motion respected on all animations
Tested 375px → 2560px across all breakpoints

05Tier comparison

See exactly what each tier includes for Blog / CMS.

FeatureLite
Full authentication
Admin dashboard
Domain-specific features
Docker + CI/CD
Multi-tenancy
Teams & RBAC
Audit logging
Webhooks
SSO (SAML/OIDC)
White-label
Compliance suite
Axiom Engine
Mobile companion
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06Stack notes

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Next.js

Node ecosystem

The Next.js variant of Blog / CMS uses idiomatic Next.js patterns and conventions. The same 73features are implemented using the framework's native tools: no forced abstractions, no foreign patterns. Your team can read the code and understand it immediately.

07Licensing

Commercial Licence

Every purchase includes a commercial licence. Ship to production, bill your clients, launch your SaaS: no royalties, no recurring fees.

  • Unlimited end users
  • Deploy to any infrastructure
  • No vendor lock-in: eject anytime
  • Full source code access

Support

Every purchase includes lifetime updates and email support. No time limits, no expiry. Your licence is perpetual.

  • Lifetime updates, free forever
  • Email support that doesn’t expire
  • Bug fixes and security patches
  • Upgrade guidance between versions
  • Full quality gate audit report in your account

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Installation, project structure, design tokens, accessibility, compliance, FAQ — everything the docs cover, plus the real repository file tree.

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08Changelog

Changelog

  1. v1.17.29

    Maintenance30 June 2026

    Dependency hygiene: updated @types/uuid to v11 for improved TypeScript type accuracy.

  2. v1.17.28

    Maintenance30 June 2026

    Dependency maintenance: updated all non-major dependencies to their latest patch and minor versions. Ensures compatibility with upstream ecosystem improvements and security patches.

  3. v1.17.27

    Minor20 June 2026

    **Dependency Updates** Updated esbuild to v0.28.1, incorporating security and reliability hardening improvements. This ensures your build pipeline benefits from the latest stability enhancements and best practices in the esbuild ecosystem. No breaking changes. Update at your convenience.

  4. v1.17.26

    Minor20 June 2026

    Security and reliability hardening: updated nodemailer to ^9.0.1 to address upstream stability concerns. This ensures your email delivery pipeline remains robust and compliant with current best practices. No migration steps required—update at your convenience.

  5. v1.17.25

    Maintenance7 June 2026

    Documentation: aligned licence terms in project documentation for clarity and consistency.

  6. v1.17.24

    Maintenance4 June 2026

    Dependency hygiene: applied override to brace-expansion range to ensure reliable and secure dependency resolution. No changes to template features or API.

  7. v1.17.23

    Maintenance4 June 2026

    Dependency maintenance: updated all non-major dependencies to their latest patch and minor versions. These updates include security and reliability hardening across the dependency tree. No breaking changes or migration required.

  8. v1.17.22

    Maintenance4 June 2026

    Documentation: added comprehensive universal buyer documentation to improve onboarding and reference materials for all users of the Inkwell Blog CMS template.

  9. v1.17.21

    Maintenance3 June 2026

    Fixed display font token references to use local token definitions instead of external dependencies. This ensures consistent font rendering across the Inkwell blog CMS and reduces external stylesheet dependencies.

  10. v1.17.20

    Minor2 June 2026

    **Fixed:** CMS taxonomy creation actions now properly wired. Taxonomy management in the admin panel now functions as intended, allowing you to create and organize content categories without workarounds.

  11. v1.17.19

    Maintenance2 June 2026

    Fixed prose typography styling on the legal page template to ensure consistent text rendering and readability across the Inkwell blog CMS. **Changes:** - Legal page prose typography alignment (#59)

  12. v1.17.18

    Maintenance27 May 2026

    Theme palette alignment for Inkwell. This release includes a styling fix to ensure consistent color values across the theme system.

  13. v1.17.17

    Maintenance26 May 2026

    Fixed duplicate analytics nav item that appeared in the sidebar navigation. This was a visual-only issue with no impact on functionality or data.

  14. v1.17.16

    Minor26 May 2026

    Fixed responsive layout issues in the mobile dashboard view. Dashboard components now render correctly across all viewport sizes with improved touch target spacing and reduced layout shift on smaller screens. No breaking changes. Update at your convenience.

  15. v1.17.15

    Minor21 May 2026

    Fixed an authentication edge case where API key validation could incorrectly fall back to browser session credentials (#51). This prevents unintended session reuse in API contexts and strengthens the separation between API and browser-based auth flows. No breaking changes. Update recommended for all deployments using API key authentication.

  16. v1.17.14

    Minor21 May 2026

    Fixed API key session handling to enforce strict boundary isolation. This prevents potential cross-session key leakage in edge cases where multiple API keys were active in the same request context. The fix is transparent — no configuration changes needed. Session boundaries are now enforced automatically on all API key operations.

  17. v1.17.13

    Maintenance20 May 2026

    Documentation: cleaned up buyer-facing docs branding for consistency and clarity. No functional changes to the template or CMS.

  18. v1.17.12

    Minor20 May 2026

    Improved resilience and security controls for magic link authentication and file upload handling. **Changes:** - Hardened magic link validation and token lifecycle management to reduce token reuse and replay attack vectors - Strengthened upload download security with additional integrity checks and rate-limiting safeguards No migration required. Update at your convenience.

  19. v1.17.11

    Maintenance19 May 2026

    Fixed character encoding issue in marketing-content component that was causing mojibake (garbled text) in certain locales. This resolves display corruption when rendering marketing copy with non-ASCII characters.

  20. v1.17.10

    Maintenance19 May 2026

    Removed unused SaaS billing code that was out of scope for this template. Internal cleanup with no impact on template functionality or buyer workflows.

  21. v1.17.9

    Maintenance18 May 2026

    Documentation: clarified production Docker Compose environment variable requirements in deployment guide (#45). No code changes.

  22. v1.17.8

    Maintenance15 May 2026

    Bug fixes and quality improvements from phase 7 review cycle. Internal refinements to ensure stability and code quality across the template.

  23. v1.17.7

    Maintenance14 May 2026

    Fixed console logging in DSAR script that was inadvertently left in production code. This cleanup ensures compliance tooling runs silently without debug output.

  24. v1.17.6

    Maintenance14 May 2026

    Fixed compliance scaffold surface propagation to ensure internal tooling consistency across the template structure. This maintenance release improves build reliability without affecting template output or buyer workflows.

  25. v1.17.5

    Maintenance14 May 2026

    Applied phase 4 inherited safety fixes across the codebase. This release contains internal improvements to code quality and security posture with no changes to template functionality or APIs.

  26. v1.17.4

    Maintenance14 May 2026

    Fixed phase 4 hardening inheritance propagation in the tl03 template layer. This ensures security and configuration hardening rules are correctly inherited across nested component structures. No action required.

  27. v1.17.3

    Maintenance14 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  28. v1.17.2

    Minor14 May 2026

    **Fixed:** Server-Sent Events (SSE) streams in the browser now correctly handle refresh cookie propagation. Previously, cookie-based session refresh could fail during active SSE connections, causing event streams to drop unexpectedly. This fix ensures cookies are properly maintained throughout the stream lifecycle, improving reliability for real-time event features. If you're using SSE for live updates or notifications, upgrade to benefit from more stable connections.

  29. v1.17.1

    Maintenance13 May 2026

    Documentation: clarified default access control behaviour in activity logging. No code changes in this release.

  30. v1.17.0

    Minor12 May 2026

    **Code block syntax highlighting.** Blog posts now render code blocks with language-aware syntax highlighting, improving readability for technical content. **Dashboard layout refinement.** Full-width dashboard shell provides better use of screen real estate for content management. **Fixes & maintenance.** Corrected character encoding in customization documentation. Updated Next.js to 16.2.6 for latest stability and performance patches.

  31. v1.16.12

    Minor8 May 2026

    Security and reliability hardening. Update recommended.

  32. v1.16.11

    Minor8 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  33. v1.16.10

    Minor8 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  34. v1.16.9

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  35. v1.16.8

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  36. v1.16.7

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  37. v1.16.6

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  38. v1.16.5

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  39. v1.16.4

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  40. v1.16.3

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  41. v1.16.2

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  42. v1.16.1

    Minor7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  43. v1.16.0

    Update7 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  44. v1.15.10

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  45. v1.15.9

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  46. v1.15.8

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  47. v1.15.7

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  48. v1.15.6

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  49. v1.15.5

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  50. v1.15.4

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  51. v1.15.3

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  52. v1.15.2

    Minor2 May 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  53. v1.15.0

    Update2 May 2026

    Introduces a complete content management system with a public blog and a dedicated admin content studio. - Public blog with a polished article reader, pagination, and standalone static pages - Admin content studio with auto-save drafts and editorial workflow controls - Comment moderation workflow and a content analytics dashboard - Media handling with automatic image optimisation - RSS and sitemap feeds, plus a globally customisable colour palette and a distinct editorial landing page Includes security and reliability hardening.

  54. v1.14.0

    Update29 April 2026

    Adds breadcrumb navigation for clearer wayfinding through the app, alongside refinements to email rendering for more consistent transactional messages. Includes security and reliability hardening.

  55. v1.13.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Adds an activity timeline that presents a chronological view of recent events in the application.

  56. v1.11.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Adds file upload support, giving the application a shared way to handle user-supplied files.

  57. v1.9.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Adds real-time updates via server-sent events, so connected views reflect changes as they happen without a manual refresh.

  58. v1.8.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Introduces a reusable data-table component for presenting structured records in a consistent layout across the app.

  59. v1.7.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Adds groundwork for marketplace payments through Stripe Connect, laying the foundation for multi-party transactions.

  60. v1.6.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  61. v1.5.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Added per-family content override slots, letting you customise marketing copy independently for each product family without touching shared layout.

  62. v1.4.3

    Minor28 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  63. v1.4.2

    Minor28 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  64. v1.4.1

    Minor28 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  65. v1.4.0

    Update28 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  66. v1.3.7

    Minor27 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  67. v1.3.6

    Minor27 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  68. v1.3.5

    Minor27 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  69. v1.3.4

    Minor27 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  70. v1.3.3

    Minor27 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  71. v1.3.2

    Minor27 April 2026

    Maintenance and reliability improvements.

  72. v1.3.1

    Minor27 April 2026

    v1.3.1 — backport user.login_failed + sweep from TL00-BASE v1.3.1 Backport from TL00-BASE v1.3.1 (commit 5926a75).

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