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Quick setup

Eight steps from a fresh install to a website your team can work on.

  1. 1

    Sign in and brand the site

    Sign in at /admin and open Settings › Website › Branding: the site name, contact email, tagline, default share image and brand colours.

  2. 2

    Languages

    Under Settings › Languages & sites, add the languages the website is written in, and their address prefixes.

  3. 3

    Layouts

    The layouts are published to resources/views/vendor/aurora/layouts. Make them the site's own, and manage them under Settings › Templates › Layouts.

  4. 4

    Menus

    Build the header and footer menus and place them in menu locations.

  5. 5

    Pages

    Create the homepage and the rest in the visual editor.

  6. 6

    People

    Invite colleagues under Users & Roles and give them roles.

  7. 7

    AI (optional)

    Add an AI provider and key in Settings › AI Assistant for the assistant in the admin, and let people connect Claude and others under AI › Connect AI apps.

  8. 8

    Production

    Run a queue worker (php artisan queue:work) and switch on Settings › Performance › Page cache.

Site settings in Aurora: the site name, contact address, tagline and brand colours with a live preview
Settings › Website › Branding: the site name, tagline and brand colours, with a live preview.