Launch Desk
A guided first-deploy path for publication identity, appearance, navigation, first story, backup, and launch.
Open source • TAHAI-Press v2.3.2
A publisher-owned newsroom without the database burden.
TAHAI-Press is a database-free, static-first publishing platform for articles, public records, PDFs, community reporting, and independent publications—built for GitHub, Pages CMS, and Cloudflare Pages.
Apache-2.0 sourceStatic HTML outputNo public app databasePublisher-controlled files
The files are the publication
A serious newsroom without a permanent runtime caretaker.
Stories remain readable structured files. PDFs and images remain ordinary media. Git records revisions. The public site becomes portable HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and source documents.
Writer Desk
Browser-local drafting, preview, checks, autosave, article import/export, and contributor packages.
Media Desk
Crop presets, compression, focal points, image descriptions, credits, rights notes, and manifests.
Publisher Studio
A private command center connecting editorial, media, setup, and controlled Git draft workflows.
Publishing capability
Articles, public records, PDFs, and structured coverage.
- Written articles, PDF-first records, mixed stories, and external documents.
- Authors, topics, sections, series, hubs, archives, updates, corrections, and disclosures.
- Search, RSS, JSON Feed, sitemap, canonical URLs, social metadata, and JSON-LD.
- Accessible embedded PDF reading with direct-open and no-JavaScript alternatives.
- Scheduled publishing through included GitHub Actions.
- WordPress WXR, Markdown, JSON, CSV, PDF, and mixed-folder imports.
Reader experience
Newspaper formality with modern accessibility.
- Responsive newspaper layouts across desktop, tablet, mobile, zoom, and print.
- Keyboard navigation, visible focus, semantic landmarks, and skip navigation.
- Reader controls for text size, spacing, measure, contrast, motion, and link visibility.
- Offline latest-edition support and browser-local saved stories.
- Printable current edition and publication-managed crosswords.
- No reader account or tracking profile required for local preferences.
Operational proof
Build checks that treat publishing as infrastructure.
The project validates content, CMS configuration, redirects, output, accessibility, reader experience, media health, performance, and repository cleanliness before a release proof is produced.
Cloudflare ready
Static deployment contract for Cloudflare Pages with preview indexing protection and redirect support.
Migration ready
Import tools and legacy URL preservation reduce the operational cost of leaving an older CMS.
Evidence ready
Deterministic manifests, SHA-256 release proof, media inventories, performance budgets, and newsroom-health artifacts.
Use it yourself or bring TAHAI inOpen-source ownership with optional implementation help.
Publishers can deploy and maintain TAHAI-Press directly, or engage TAHAI Web Services for migration, branding, Cloudflare deployment, accessibility, content structure, launch setup, and handoff.
Installable themes — future roadmap
Portable presentation packages without arbitrary code.
A future TAHAI-Press release is planned to support declarative ZIP themes installed through the Publishing Console, with real-publication preview, compatibility checks, accessibility validation, activation, export, and rollback.
- Style, Layout, Editorial, and Edition capability levels
- CSS, approved JSON layouts, sanitized local assets, documentation, and license files
- No executables, build scripts, remote JavaScript, tracking pixels, or external font imports
- Core publishing logic, content integrity, navigation, and accessibility fallbacks remain under TAHAI-Press control
Planned — not included in v2.3.2
Eight official starter themes are proposed.
Classic Broadsheet, Community Weekly, Civic Record, Modern Daily, Investigative Journal, Arts and Culture, High Contrast, and Warm Reading Edition form the planned foundation.
Public copy must not imply theme ZIP installation ships in the current release.