Core & Plugins Overview
How the agnostic core and the gnostic plugins fit together.
The shape of the platform
VBWD is an agnostic core plus gnostic plugins. The core provides users, invoices, tokens, RBAC, the event bus, data exchange, pricing and the plugin runtime. Every business vertical — CMS, shop, booking, subscriptions, chat, GHRM, payments — is a plugin that extends the core through ports and registries, never by modifying it. See Core-agnosticism & seams.
Plugin reference
CMS
Pages, posts, categories, widgets, layouts and a media gallery
Subscription
Tarif plans, add-ons, subscriptions and a cart-backed checkout
Shop
Products, categories, stock, orders and pluggable shipping
Booking
Resources, typed schemas, reservations and availability
GHRM
GitHub Repo Manager
meinchat & Bots
VBWD meinchat & bot framework — rooms, multi-party chat and bots as members.
Payments
VBWD payments — provider plugins (Stripe, PayPal, token payment) and the regional rails.
Discounts & Referral
VBWD discount & referral — coupons, discount types and the referral reward substrate.
CMS AI Helper
VBWD CMS AI helper — in-editor content/SEO/image generation via the core LLM Connection Manager.
Bundles
A full vertical is often a bundle: a backend plugin, an fe-admin plugin and an fe-user plugin sharing one contract (CMS, GHRM, tarot and the payment plugins all follow this). The bundle wires backend models + routes, admin management UI and the public storefront together.