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Upgrade from your AI site without rebuilding

When you are ready for a CMS, FlexSite upgrades your Atom project in one click. Same content. Same domain. A new way to publish.

Many platforms treat an upgrade as a migration project. FlexSite treats it as a continuation: your AI-generated pages become the foundation of a real CMS theme. You do not start from a blank template or lose your live URL.

Same content. Same domain. No rebuild.

Your live site keeps working while FlexSite analyzes your structure, preserves your copy, and creates a hosted CMS project wired to the same domain.

Analyzing your site structure
Simulated upgrade — real upgrades run automatically in your dashboard
1

Analyzing your site structure

FlexSite maps your AI pages, regions, and content into CMS-ready components.
2

Preserving content and domain

Copy, branding, and your published URL are carried forward — nothing is discarded.
3

Building your CMS theme

Your design is converted into a Drupal theme with Canvas support.
4

Creating your CMS project

A Codeless project with dev, staging, and production environments is provisioned.
What changes after upgrade
Dashboard navigation

You gain environment-level menus: backups, domain settings, themes, and CMS content.

Publishing model

Instead of republishing a static site, you create entries, preview drafts, and publish from the CMS.

Team invitations

Invite editors and reviewers with roles — you are no longer the only person who can update the site.

Development environment

A dev environment is created automatically so you can experiment safely.

1

Confirm you need a CMS

Use the static-site guides to validate growth signals — blog, team, staging, structured content.

2

Run the upgrade from your project

Open Upgrade in your Atom project menu and choose Codeless CMS.

3

Explore before you restructure

After upgrade, browse the CMS admin and dev environment before changing production content.

Tip

Upgrade when a real workflow need appears — not because a CMS sounds more professional. Your AI site can stay live until you are ready.

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In this series
1

What is a CMS?

2

Upgrade path

3

Content types

4

Vocabularies

5

Relations

6

Canvas editor

7

Publishing

8

Team roles

9

Webforms

10

Multilingual

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Environments & ops

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