Made with ♥ for the PageMotor beta testing community
PageMotor is genuinely exciting software. It’s free, open-source, AI-friendly, and built with a vision that’s hard not to get behind. But it’s also in active beta development – and right now, a lot of the documentation assumes you already speak PHP.
This site exists for everyone who doesn’t.
My name is Bryan Baker. I’m not a developer. I’m a regular person who got curious about PageMotor, decided to try installing it on my local computer, and spent a lot of time figuring out why things weren’t working the way I expected.
Along the way, I learned a lot. And I figured if I was confused, others probably were too.
A lot of this site – including the design you’re looking at right now – was built using Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. The design was generated by Claude, converted into a PageMotor theme using the PageMotor Design Conversion Skill, and imported directly into PageMotor.
That workflow is documented here, in plain English, so you can do the same thing.
When I asked PageMotor’s creator, Chris Pearson, if he had any objections to this project, he said: “More info and clarification is always a win.”
And when I asked him how to describe the beta testing experience to newcomers, he put it perfectly:
PageMotor is still under significant development – the scaffolding is still up all around the building, and it’s advisable to wear a hardhat when on site.
– Chris Pearson, PageMotor creatorThat’s exactly right. This site is your hardhat.
I’m not a developer and I don’t have insider knowledge of PageMotor’s codebase. Everything here comes from my own experience, public documentation, and occasional clarifications from Chris via the PageMotor community forum. If something here is wrong, please let me know.