Built-in CMS & Database
Paid Looops sites can add a database with a visual content editor: tables from templates, many column types, rich text, and pages built from your content.
On Personal and Pro plans, a website can switch on a database. The agent designs the tables it needs for your content, and you edit that content in a visual CMS inside the builder, without touching code.
Switching the database on
Ask the AI for anything that needs stored content ("a blog", "a menu I can update", "a members area") and it will propose turning the database on, or do it yourself: project name (top left) → Website settings → Database. Personal includes one website with a database, Pro includes five.
Free sites have no database. Text and images on a free site are edited with Quick Edits or by asking the AI.
The CMS panel
Open the CMS tab (database icon, top right of the builder) while the preview is running. You get:
- Explorer: every table in your site's database
- Create Table: start blank or from a template (Blog, Projects, Team Members, Testimonials, Services, FAQs, Gallery, Events, Clients, Jobs, Recipes, Podcasts, Videos, Authors)
- Create Column on any table, with a type, constraints, dropdown options for select-style fields, and a reference table for relations
- A row editor for entries, with a rich text toolbar (bold, italic, lists, links, quotes, block formats), image and file fields, and a duplicate-entry action
Changes you make in the CMS are live on the preview immediately and on the published site after the next publish.
Column types
| Type | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Text | Titles, names, short strings |
| Rich text | Articles, descriptions with formatting |
| Integer and Decimal | Prices, quantities, order |
| Boolean | Published, featured, in stock |
| Date and time | Publish dates, event times |
| Image and File | Photos, PDFs, uploaded via your Assets |
| Reference | A link to a row in another table (author, category) |
| JSON | Structured data the agent needs |
Letting the AI do the structure
You rarely need to design tables by hand. Describe the content and the agent creates the tables, the columns and the pages that read them:
"Add a blog. Posts have a title, cover image, category and rich text body. Show the latest six on the homepage and give each post its own page."
The agent creates the tables, a listing page, individual pages with clean URLs, and wires them to the database. You then add and edit posts in the CMS.
Other common requests: "a menu with sections, items and prices", "a team page from a team table", "a portfolio where each project has images and a case study", "an FAQ I can edit".
Editing content that appears on the page
When you click text on the site with click-to-edit and that text comes from the database, Looops shows Edit in CMS and takes you to the right entry, so the change applies everywhere the content is used.
Good to know
- The database lives with your website. Your data is yours: on export you receive a dump of the content alongside the code (see Export Code).
- Form entries, member accounts and site AI knowledge also live in this database when you use those features.
- Storage for images and files counts toward your plan's storage (10 GB per site on paid plans).
Next steps
- Working with the CMS: day-to-day editing
- Database Schema Design: how to describe your content to the AI
- Forms & Submissions: store what visitors send
- Site AI Assistant: an AI on your site that knows this content