KnexPublish is the headless content management and publishing product from Knexlabs. It gives content a dedicated home while your website or application controls how that content is presented.
The aim is straightforward: provide a focused place to write, organize, and publish articles without tying the editorial interface to a particular website design.
Write and review in one editor
The administration interface includes a Markdown editor, formatting controls, preview, and focus mode. Authors can work with headings, lists, links, images, tables, and code blocks. Excerpts provide a short introduction for article listings.
The content workflow supports drafts, immediate publishing, and scheduling. An editable slug controls the article’s URL segment. Categories group broad subjects, while tags describe more specific topics.
Prepare content for its audience
Posts can have cover images and social-sharing images. Meta titles and descriptions let editors prepare the information used by a connected website for search and link previews.
These fields still need a frontend implementation. A headless CMS supplies the content; the website decides how to render the page, use its metadata, and make the reading experience accessible.
Choose public or protected access
Public posts can be read through the content API without a key. Protected posts require an API key. The public API returns published content whose publication time has arrived, rather than exposing drafts or future scheduled articles.
A key must remain on a trusted server. If a website uses protected content, it must also decide who can see the rendered page. Hiding the API key does not by itself restrict a visitor’s access to a page that displays the content.
Connect publishing to your website
The API provides post listings, individual articles, categories, and tags. A frontend can use these to build a compact insights section or a larger publishing experience.
For the Knexlabs website, the intended approach is a small public blog: one category per article, optional tags, readable article pages, and straightforward pagination. Content should help visitors make better business decisions rather than fill a publishing calendar.
Start with your editorial process
Before choosing an integration, describe what you publish, who maintains it, and where it needs to appear. Hosting, support, and integration requirements should be discussed for the project rather than assumed from a feature list.
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