Overview
Lists to look things up in once you know what you are looking for: roles, plans, limits, emails, themes, columns, addresses, settings and the glossary.
Environment variables
Every setting a self-hosted server reads, with its default on Node and on Cloudflare, what values it accepts, and where it applies.
Roles and permissions
What a Site Admin, an Admin and a Manager can each see and do in the admin panel, in one table.
Plans and editions compared
What each hosted plan (Free, Starter, Premium) and each self-hosted edition (Community, Standard) includes, and the rule for the "Powered by Choir Master CMS" link.
Hosted and self-hosted: what is different
Every place where a site we host and a site you run yourself behave differently, each with both sides stated.
Feature switches: what each one shows and hides
The 17 switches in Site Settings, Features, with their default, what each adds to the public site, the member portal and the admin menu, and what each depends on.
Limits
Every size, count, length and time limit in the product, in tables: uploads, lists in Site Settings, tickets, gifts, logins, holds and more.
Every email your site sends
Each email the site sends, with what triggers it, who gets it, its subject line, whether the reader can stop it, and which hosted plan sends it.
Themes, palettes and font pairings
The 15 ready-made themes, the one-colour choices, the 17 four-colour palettes and the 14 font pairings, with their values.
Custom style sheet: names to style by
For someone who writes CSS on a self-hosted site, the data-cm names that mark each part of the public pages, the theme variables, and everything the server refuses.
Spreadsheet columns for imports and downloads
The column headings the member, donor and gift imports understand, how dates and amounts are read, and what each downloaded spreadsheet contains.
What's new and version history
Where to read what changed in each release, how version numbers work, how to see which version your site runs, and what arrived in 1.6.12 and 1.6.11.
Addresses on your site
Every public and member address on your site, what switches each one on, and what happens at an address that is off or does not exist.
Glossary
Plain definitions of the words this guide and the product use, in alphabetical order, each with a link to the page that explains it.