Pages Manager for WHMCS

A complete content management addon for WHMCS that lets system administrators build unlimited rich-content pages in the client area: Internal Pages, Internal PHP Pages, Standalone External Pages, Reusable Page Templates and the new Sidebar Widgets manager.

Pages Manager turns WHMCS into a true CMS for your client area. Create as many pages as you need — from simple informational pages and landing pages to fully custom, database-driven PHP applications — all managed from one place inside the admin area, without touching theme files or hand-editing PHP.

Internal Pages render seamlessly inside your active WHMCS theme, with friendly URLs, a parent/sub-page hierarchy, per-language translations, optional login requirements, Disqus comments and per-page SEO. PHP Pages go a step further: each one generates a real .php file plus a matching Smarty template at the WHMCS root, giving you complete control over the page logic while staying fully integrated with the client area. External Pages are fully standalone HTML pages wrapped in editable header and footer shells — deployed as a self-contained site on the domain of your choice, ideal for SEO landing pages, sales pages or anything that needs a completely custom layout.

The module also includes a Templates library of reusable Smarty layouts, a new Sidebar Widgets manager for building reusable sidebar boxes (content, links, and images) that you can attach to any page in the order you want, an analytics Dashboard with page-view trends and geographic reports, client-area navigation injection, and a single Settings page for SEO-friendly URLs, Disqus and translation languages — everything governed by modern, secure, CSRF-protected admin screens.

What's new in v7

v7 is a full rewrite of the legacy v6 module on the modern WHMCS addon architecture (PSR-style controllers, namespaced helpers, Smarty templates) plus several major new features:

• Sidebar Widgets manager — build reusable sidebar boxes (content, links, content+links, image) and attach them to any Internal or PHP page. Widgets render as panels in the WHMCS client-area sidebar, in the order you select them.
• Analytics Dashboard — page counts, lifetime page views with a month-over-month trend, SEO health score, a 30-day traffic chart, top/recent pages and geographic view overlay. Includes clear template cache and export routes actions.
• Client-area navigation injection — Internal and PHP pages can be added to the primary and secondary navbar, optionally as children of an existing item (e.g. "Support" or "My Account"), with a custom display order.
• Per-page SEO — editable meta title, meta description and keywords on every page, injected into the page head.
• SEO Friendly URLs with two formats — choose between .html URLs or clean extensionless URLs; the module writes the matching rewrite rules into the WHMCS root .htaccess automatically.
• Unified publish status — every page type has an on/off publish toggle (drafts are hidden from visitors).
• Modernised storage — data is kept in hsc_pm_* tables and migrated automatically from the legacy mod_* tables on activation/upgrade.

Features

Content types

• Internal Pages — rendered inside the active client theme with titles, SEO meta, parent/sub-page hierarchy, required-login gating, optional Disqus comments and per-language translations.
• PHP Pages — generate a real .php + .tpl pair at the WHMCS root using the full client-area framework for maximum flexibility (custom PHP, Smarty, DB access).
• External Pages — fully standalone HTML pages composed from editable Page Header / Page Footer shell rows, rendered as .tpl files and deployable as a self-contained site on any domain (bundled index.php + config.php + .htaccess). They are not served on the WHMCS URL.
• Page Templates — reusable Smarty layouts for internal pages; the default template cannot be deleted.
• Sidebar Widgets — reusable sidebar boxes assigned per page.

Page management

• Hierarchy (parent pages) with automatic sub-page sidebar menus.
• Sort/display order, forced-login, Disqus comments.
• Multi-language translations of internal page content.
• Per-page SEO (meta title, description, keywords) with a live preview.
• Optional redirect link per page.
• Visit counting on every page type (once per session/visitor cookie).
• Publish / unpublish (draft) control.

Sidebar widgets (new in v7)

• Four widget types: Content, Links, Content + Links and Image.
• Each widget can be activated / deactivated.
• Image widgets support an optional click-through link and an "open in new tab" option; images are uploaded from the form and sized to fit the sidebar width.
• Widgets are assigned per page from a Choices multi-select; the order you select them is the order they display on that page (each page keeps its own order).
• Widgets render as panels in the WHMCS primary client-area sidebar (ClientAreaPrimarySidebar), so they inherit the theme's sidebar styling. Links widgets render their entries as real sidebar menu items.

Dashboard analytics (new in v7)

• Metric cards: page counts by type, lifetime page views (with month-over-month trend), draft/unpublished pages and a SEO health score.
• A 30-day traffic line chart.
• Recently updated and top-performing pages.
• Geographic views overlay (country breakdown per page) with All / 30-day / 7-day ranges.
• System health panel: broken generated routes and template cache status.
• One-click Clear Template Cache and Export Routes (a plain-text map of every page URL).

Navigation & SEO (new in v7)

• Add pages to the primary and secondary client-area navbar, optionally nested under a parent item, with a custom order.
• Automatic meta description / meta keywords injection on internal and PHP pages.
• SEO Friendly URLs (from Settings) with two URL formats:
  • With .html — internal pages use {slug}.html and PHP pages use {name}.html URLs.
  • Without .html — clean extensionless URLs such as /about and /test.
  • The module automatically writes the matching rewrite rules into the WHMCS root .htaccess (fenced between ### BEGIN - Pages Manager SEO and ### END - Pages Manager SEO markers) and keeps them in sync whenever the setting is saved. No manual .htaccess editing required.