Publive DXP overview

Publive DXP is a headless CMS for digital publishers and enterprises. Your team writes, reviews, and publishes content in the Publive DXP dashboard. Your website or app gets that content through APIs, so you can build the frontend with any framework.

Find your starting point

Each section of these docs is for one type of reader. Start from the task that you want to do.

Create and publish content

For editors and authors. Use the dashboard features, the AI tools, and Content Workflows.Documentation

Set up and secure your workspace

For workspace admins. Set up sign-in security, content access policies, and audit logs.Documentation

Build your website

For frontend developers. Connect Next.js, React, Vue, or Angular, or start from the Starter Kit.Build your site

Integrate with the API

For developers who read or write content with code. Authenticate, do a quickstart, and find every endpoint.API Reference

Use cases

Publish news and digital media

Publive DXP supports the main content formats of digital publishing:

Post type	Use it for
`Article`	News articles, features, and opinion pieces
`Video`	Video stories with embedded players
`Web Story`	Visual stories for mobile readers
`Gallery`	Photo galleries. You can reorder the items from the dashboard.
`LiveBlog`	Live coverage of events, with updates

Live coverage: Create a LiveBlog post, then add updates in the dashboard. Updates support pinned entries, author attribution, and rich HTML. Your site gets them from the live blog updates endpoint.
News feeds and section pages: Get posts by category, tag, or author from the post listing endpoint. Filter operators such as __eq, __in, and __gte are in Core concepts.
Fast pages at high volume: Content Delivery API responses include cache tags. Use them to clear only the changed pages from your CDN cache. See Cache tags.
SEO and social sharing: Posts include short_description, seo_keyphrase, and seo_score. Categories, tags, and authors include Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata. Use Content scoring to check posts against your rules, and Google Discover Headline to set a separate headline for Discover.
Multilingual publishing: Manage and deliver content in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and more from one workspace.

Control publishing in regulated industries

Banking, financial services, insurance, pharma, and healthcare teams must review content before it goes live and keep a record of each change. This table shows the Publive DXP feature for each requirement:

Requirement	In the dashboard	Through the CMS API
Review and approve before publishing	Content Workflows: an entry moves through stages, and you cannot publish it until it reaches the stage that you set.	The status-based Maker-Checker flow, with the `Approval Pending` status.
Control who can change which content	Content Access Policies: allow or deny actions for each role and content type.	Not available.
Secure sign-in	Multi-factor authentication for every member.	Not applicable.
Record who did what	Audit logs and the workflow audit trail.	Post fields `member`, `updated_by`, `approver`, `created_at`, `updated_at`, and `published_at`.
Release content at a set time	Schedule the post.	Set `status` to `Scheduled` and give a `scheduled_at` time. See the CMS quickstart.

Use categories to keep content for each compliance area apart, for example Regulatory updates, Investor relations, Drug safety, or Clinical trials.

Content Workflows and Audit logs are available on the Custom Enterprise plan. The workflow stage gate applies only to publishing from the dashboard. The CMS API can change the status of an entry, but it cannot change its stage.

Automate content and connect other systems

Import and create content with code

Push articles from other tools, migrations, or scheduled pipelines through the CMS API.

Act when content changes

Get a webhook when content changes. Use it to rebuild your site, notify a team channel, or update another service.

Engage your readers

Forms: Collect sign-ups, enquiries, and other reader data. See Forms.
Newsletters: Let readers subscribe from your site with the Newsletter APIs.
Reader accounts: Let readers register and sign in on your site with the Reader APIs.

Use AI with these docs

Every page has a contextual menu with one-click options to open it in ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity. For deeper AI-assisted development, connect your coding tool directly to these docs via MCP.

Run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http publive-docs https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp

Or paste this prompt into Claude Code:

Run this command to add the Publive docs MCP server:
claude mcp add --transport http publive-docs https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp

Once added, use the publive-docs MCP to give me a summary of the available Publive APIs.

Add to your mcp.json (Command Palette → “Open MCP settings”):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "publive-docs": {
      "url": "https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or paste this prompt into Cursor:

Add the following to my mcp.json file to connect the Publive docs MCP server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "publive-docs": {
      "url": "https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Once saved, use the publive-docs MCP to give me a summary of the available Publive APIs.

Create or edit .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "publive-docs": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Open Windsurf Settings → MCP and add a new server, or edit ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "publive-docs": {
      "serverUrl": "https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and enter:

Name: Publive Docs
URL: https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp

Open Zed Settings (cmd+,) and add under context_servers:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "publive-docs": {
      "url": "https://docs.thepublive.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Once connected, your AI tool can search endpoints, read full pages, and navigate the API reference without you having to paste anything manually.

Overview

Content modelling

Editor features

Content Workflows

Account security

Workspace administration

Find your starting point

Create and publish content

Set up and secure your workspace

Build your website

Integrate with the API

Use cases

Publish news and digital media

Control publishing in regulated industries

Automate content and connect other systems

Import and create content with code

Act when content changes

Engage your readers

Use AI with these docs