Introduction

Version 5.0 · September 2026

This guide is designed to help you navigate and use a website built with Convivial for GovCMS. It is organised in six sections:

• Site structure — how the site is put together: content types, components, menus, taxonomies and blocks.

• Concepts and tools — ideas that run through the whole site.

• Roles — what each kind of user can do; find yours.

• Theme settings — for Themers.

• Content editing — creating pages, media, workflow, webforms, the editor and the component reference.

• Support — where to go for help.

Conventions used in this guide:

• Menu paths are written as Manage → Content.

• Field names and button labels are written in bold.

• URLs are relative to the site, e.g. /admin/content.

• Screenshots show the demo site; your site's content and colours will differ but the forms are the same.

Site information

Demo site: https://govcms.convivial.io/. Its Demo section, https://govcms.convivial.io/demo, walks through every component, modifier, view mode and content type in this guide, and each chapter links to the page that shows what it describes.