Website CMS

WDS Prism Website CMS for South African Businesses

WDS Prism is the content management system WDS Creative builds, hosts and looks after your website on: a fast front end designed for your brand, a visual editor your team can use, and one accountable team behind the whole stack.

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Highlights

Visual page editor with live preview
Fast Next.js pages built for your brand
Shop, bookings and quotes built in
AI drafting that waits for your approval

Deliverables

A custom theme in your brand
Pages, menus, forms and SEO set up
Content moved from your current site
Hosting, HTTPS, backups and updates
Team accounts with the right roles

Outcomes

Edit your own content without breaking the design
Fewer moving parts to patch and secure
One team accountable for site, server and support

Inside WDS Prism

The dashboard your team works in.

Real screens from WDS Prism, shown with a demo website.

Page builder

Edit pages beside a live preview

Add sections from your site's own library, put them in order and change the words while the preview updates. Nothing goes live until you publish.

Dashboard

See what changed and what needs publishing

The dashboard opens on unpublished changes, new enquiries and recent activity. Form enquiries land in their own inbox, ready to read, archive or export to CSV.

Search and social

Check the search result before it goes live

Every page gets its own SEO title and description, with a preview of the search result and the social card. Photos keep their subject in frame on any crop.

South Africa

A managed website platform for South African businesses

WDS Prism gives South African businesses a website they can edit themselves, on a platform WDS Creative builds, hosts and maintains. Your team updates pages, posts, products and media in a visual editor; WDS Creative keeps the server, security, backups and updates in hand.

The shop is set up for South African commerce: PayFast, Yoco, Ozow and EFT at checkout, Bob Go for live courier rates, waybills and tracking, and Sage Accounting, Xero or QuickBooks Online for recording paid orders and keeping prices and stock in step. We set up forms with POPIA-aware consent wording, and Prism sends no usage data home: enquiries and orders stay in the site's own database on the server we run for you. ZAR scoping separates the theme build, content migration, shop setup, hosting and continued support, so you can see what each part involves before you commit.

Platform Overview

WDS Prism overview: how the platform works

WDS Prism is the content management system WDS Creative built for the business websites it designs and runs, and this website runs on it. If you have used WordPress, the admin will feel familiar: a dashboard, pages and posts, media, menus, users and roles, themes, settings and updates. Underneath it is a different kind of system: one compact server program with one database file per site, a front end built with Next.js, and no pile of third-party plugins to keep patched.

Editing that keeps the design intact

Pages are built from sections designed for your site, such as a hero, a services grid, a gallery or a contact form. Each section has its own fields with sensible limits, so a headline that is too long or a missing image is flagged before it reaches the live site. The editor shows the real page beside your changes, drafts stay private until you publish them, and a built-in tutorial mode walks new editors through everyday tasks on the actual screens.

Selling, booking and quoting

The shop is part of the platform rather than an add-on. A product can be a physical item, a service, a booking with time slots and reminders, a quote request answered with a priced reply, or a subscription that renews on its own. Variants, paid extras, bundles, delivery or in-store collection, and stock are handled in the same admin as your pages.

AI that drafts, people that decide

Prism has a built-in connector for Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant. With a token you control, it can draft pages and posts, upload images and check a page's SEO, and it only saves drafts unless that token is allowed to publish. The optional blog autopilot uses your own Claude API key to draft a post on a schedule and emails a review link: nothing goes live until someone approves it, and a draft can be rewritten from a note or declined.

Security, speed and backups

Prism leaves out comments, pingbacks and XML-RPC, long-standing targets for spam and attacks on business websites. Plugins run in a sandbox with only the permissions they declare, the software sends no usage data home, and HTTPS certificates renew automatically. Because each site is one database file, a full backup can be taken while the site runs and restored in one step, and a theme update can be rolled back to the previous version if something looks wrong.

Search essentials are built in: a sitemap, robots rules and canonical links, plus an SEO title, description and focus keyword for every page, with a check that flags what to improve.

Managed by WDS Creative

You do not need a server or a technical team. WDS Creative designs the theme around your brand, moves your content across, sets up forms, the shop and SEO, and then hosts, updates and backs up the site, with one team to call when something needs to change. Prism needs a server of its own rather than PHP shared hosting, which is part of why we run it for you.

Questions about WDS Prism

Can my team edit the website themselves?

Yes. Owners, editors and other roles each get their own account with the access their job needs. Most day-to-day changes, such as new pages, posts, products, photos and menu links, are made in the visual editor without a developer.

Can you move my WordPress site to WDS Prism?

Yes. We rebuild the design as a Prism theme, move your pages, posts and images across, and keep your page addresses the same wherever possible, so customers and search engines can still find them. Some WordPress plugins have no direct equivalent, and we list those in the scope before any work starts.

Is WDS Prism the same as WordPress?

No. It is a separate system with a familiar way of working. WordPress plugins and themes do not run on it; the features a business site needs are built in or added by WDS Creative. If your site depends on a particular WordPress plugin we will tell you, and our WordPress web design services remain an option.

Who hosts a WDS Prism website?

WDS Creative does, on servers we manage, as part of the service. The content is yours: a backup of the whole site is a single database file plus your media library.

Working Principle

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Next Step

Plan your WDS Prism website.

Tell us about your current site, what your team needs to edit, and whether you sell, take bookings or send quotes online. We will come back with a scoped plan for the theme, the move and the managed service, priced in rand.

Project Qualification

Let's separate serious projects from loose enquiries.

Answer the short assessment first. WDS uses the score to route the enquiry as a priority project, discovery call, or pre-scope request.

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What do you need WDS Creative to help with?

This helps route serious website, software, hosting, automation, and SEO projects correctly.

Editing that keeps the design intact

Selling, booking and quoting

AI that drafts, people that decide

Security, speed and backups

Search essentials are built in: a sitemap, robots rules and canonical links, plus an SEO title, description and focus keyword for every page, with a check that flags what to improve.

Managed by WDS Creative

Questions about WDS Prism

Can my team edit the website themselves?

Can you move my WordPress site to WDS Prism?

Is WDS Prism the same as WordPress?

Who hosts a WDS Prism website?

WDS Creative does, on servers we manage, as part of the service. The content is yours: a backup of the whole site is a single database file plus your media library.

WDS Prism Website CMS for South African Businesses

Highlights

Deliverables

Outcomes

The dashboard your team works in.

Edit pages beside a live preview

See what changed and what needs publishing

Check the search result before it goes live

A managed website platform for South African businesses

WDS Prism overview: how the platform works

Editing that keeps the design intact

Selling, booking and quoting

AI that drafts, people that decide

Security, speed and backups

Managed by WDS Creative

Questions about WDS Prism

Can my team edit the website themselves?

Can you move my WordPress site to WDS Prism?

Is WDS Prism the same as WordPress?

Who hosts a WDS Prism website?

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”

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Plan your WDS Prism website.

Let's separate serious projects from loose enquiries.

What do you need WDS Creative to help with?

WDS Prism overview: how the platform works

Editing that keeps the design intact

Selling, booking and quoting

AI that drafts, people that decide

Security, speed and backups

Managed by WDS Creative

Questions about WDS Prism

Can my team edit the website themselves?

Can you move my WordPress site to WDS Prism?

Is WDS Prism the same as WordPress?

Who hosts a WDS Prism website?

Related services and solutions

Software Solutions and Products

Managed Website Services

Business Web Hosting

Plan your WDS Prism website.

Let's separate serious projects from loose enquiries.

What do you need WDS Creative to help with?