Features

Core features

A guided tour of what Timber does, grouped by what you're trying to get done.

Write and publish#

Pages and posts with four editors: Simple, HTML, Coder (Monaco) and Builder.
Drafts, scheduling and live previews at phone, tablet and desktop sizes.
Categories, excerpts, cover images, an RSS feed and a "load more" blog.
Page folders, nested pages, per-page header/footer overrides, theme sections, a homepage picker.
Text view to edit just the words of a designed HTML page.

The Playground: several versions of your site, edited with generated forms and live preview, compared side by side, shared by private link, switched with one click.
Three starter themes (Birch, Ebony, Ghost), plus theme forking and a documented theme contract.
Branding: logo, favicon, colours, social links — applied across themes.
Menus with dropdowns, mega menus and audience rules.
Blocks: global CSS, custom headers/footers, shortcodes, reusable HTML.
Page-header bands with image, gradient, blend modes and height.
CSS libraries: Tailwind or Bootstrap on demand.

Form builder: multi-step, conditional logic, file uploads, merge tags, autoresponders, routing, webhooks, schedules and entry limits.
Inbox with spam, stars, replies and per-form stats.
Email via PHP mail, SMTP, Gmail or Brevo, with branded templates and a sent log.
Integrations: Google Analytics, Brevo, Slack and Zoho Desk (each a small file you can read).

SEO fields and SERP previews, canonical URLs, Open Graph, Twitter cards, JSON-LD.
sitemap.xml, robots.txt, RSS.
Redirects and short links with hit counts.
A branded 404 (or send visitors home).

Cookie banner with Google Consent Mode v2, consent log and consent-gated scripts.
Data-request form and policy templates.
No third-party requests by default; system fonts only.

Maintenance / coming-soon with countdown, site notice bar, admin bar.
Media library, file manager, Monaco code editor.
Data browser with JSON validation and automatic file backups; export/import as a zip.
WordPress migrator with undo.
A dashboard with a launch checklist and a security self-check.

Plain PHP you can read, themes with generated editors, small integration files, a documented architecture, and a clear extension path.

See the Built-in vs plugins page to compare with the WordPress plugins these replace.