Anchor CMS
Lightweight blog system written in PHP, archived by its maintainers and no longer in active development.
Anchor CMS is a blog system written in PHP that runs on MySQL or SQLite, with an administration interface. It can be installed with composer create-project anchorcms/anchor-cms anchor, or uploaded by FTP or SFTP. The code is published on GitHub under the GNU General Public License version 3.
Worth knowing
The maintainers archived the project, and the README heading reads “No Longer Maintained”. The documentation page says the project “is no longer in active development”, and the README advises against treating it as production ready. The GitHub repository is archived, the Packagist package is marked abandoned, and the newest GitHub release dates from 2018.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Install with
- composer create-project, or upload through FTP/SFTP2
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-23: Status, links, Maintainer, License model
anchorcms.com/ - 2026-10-23: Status, links, Runtime, Databases, Install with
raw.githubusercontent.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms/master/readme.md - 2026-10-23: Status, links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/anchorcms/anchor-cms - 2026-10-23: Status
repo.packagist.org/p2/anchorcms/anchor-cms.json - 2026-10-23: Categories
github.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms - 2026-10-23: License
raw.githubusercontent.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms/master/license.md - 2026-10-23: First release, Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/anchorcms/anchor-cms/releases?per_page=100 - 2026-10-23: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/anchorcms/anchor-cms/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-10-23: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/anchorcms/anchor-cms.json - 2026-10-23: Minimum runtime
anchorcms.com/docs/getting-started/requirements/ - 2026-10-23: Admin interface
anchorcms.com/docs/managing-content/users/ - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Dependent packages
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/anchorcms%2Fanchor-cms