Reference → SG-Core

What SG-Core is

SG-Core is the essentials layer of every SGEN site. Users, menus, media, and pages live here — built in, with no plugin tax.

Every SGEN site runs on SG-Core. It is the product layer underneath every other SGEN surface — the foundation that SG-Modules extends and that SG-Dashboard manages across multiple sites.

What's in SG-Core

Users

Site owners, contributors, and admins. Roles, access control, profile data, and activity. The user model that every other product (Modules, Dashboard, Builder) uses.

Menus

Site navigation. Primary menu, header menu, footer menu, and mega-menu content. Drag-and-drop ordering, target windows, CSS classes, and per-item mega-menu HTML.

Media

Image library, file uploads, format optimization (WebP), compression presets, and reuse across pages. The single source of truth for every visual asset on the site.

Pages

Static pages — Home, About, Contact, landing pages. Each page has its own template, banner, SEO metadata, and visibility status. SG-Builder edits the body of a page; SG-Core owns the page record itself.

Why SG-Core matters

WordPress and similar platforms treat these four areas as either plugins or paid add-ons. SGEN includes them in every site by default. That is the "zero plugin tax" baseline.

If you can think of a feature as essential to running a website at all, it lives in SG-Core. If it is a category of capability that not every site needs, it lives in SG-Modules.

How SG-Core relates to the other products

  • SG-Modules — first-party modules that extend SG-Core. Forms, blogs, e-commerce, popups, redirects. Optional, included.
  • SG-Dashboard — multi-site command above SG-Core. Manage many SGEN sites from one place: deploy, monitor, billing, integrations.
  • SG-Builder — page-level visual editor. Composes layouts on top of pages that SG-Core owns.

Where SG-Core appears in the admin

SG-Core capabilities are surfaced through the site admin under Users, Appearance > Menu, Media Library, and Pages. You don't open "SG-Core" as a destination — you open the feature you need, and SG-Core is what makes it work.

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