Tutorials
Step-by-step tutorials for developers: build an app, a theme, AJAX features, scheduled imports, MCP tools and API scripts.
7 articles
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Connect an AI assistant to your site
A step-by-step tutorial. Connect Claude, or any MCP client, to your Basehim site over OAuth or with an API key. Choose the right account and scopes, try useful prompts, and know how to disconnect.
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Publish from a script with the REST API
A step-by-step tutorial. Write a small Node.js script that publishes Markdown files to Basehim - creating the category, uploading a cover image, and updating the same post on later runs - with a scoped API key and proper error handling.
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Import an RSS feed on a schedule
A step-by-step tutorial. Build an app that checks an RSS feed every hour and saves new items as draft posts, using scheduled tasks, outbound HTTP, terms, declared permissions and the app log, plus a real cron job for punctual runs.
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Give your app an MCP tool for AI agents
A step-by-step tutorial. Expose your app's data to AI assistants as an MCP tool with its own scope, decide which roles may grant it, and test it with an API key and a JSON-RPC call.
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Add a "Was this helpful?" widget with AJAX
A step-by-step tutorial. Build an app that asks readers whether a post helped, records answers through a rate-limited public AJAX action, stores them in its own table and shows a report to editors.
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Build a theme from scratch
A step-by-step tutorial. Build "Notebook", a clean reading theme with a header, menus, a sidebar widget area, post cards, pagination, comments, an author box and a Customizer accent colour, in plain PHP and CSS.
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Build your first app: an announcement bar
A step-by-step tutorial. Build a small Basehim app with a settings screen in the admin and a message bar on every public page, and learn the manifest, boot(), admin routes, CSRF, settings, views and front-end output along the way.