CMS Made Simple
Open-source content management system built in PHP, with the Smarty templating engine.
www.cmsmadesimple.orgrepositorydocsplugins
CMS Made Simple is a content management system whose templates run on the Smarty engine. Editors maintain the site in a browser-based admin area, and content is kept in a MySQL database. The quick install uploads a single installer file to the host, which sets up the rest.
Worth knowing
The About page links the word GPL to the GPL-2.0 text, while GitHub reports GPL-3.0 for the repository.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- CMS Made Simple Foundation5
- Maintained by
- Foundation
- First release
- 20041
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request7
- Install with
- installation assistant, single uploaded file7
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-20: name, First release, License
www.cmsmadesimple.org/about/cms-made-simple - 2026-10-20: links, Categories, Templating, Admin interface, Last release
www.cmsmadesimple.org - 2026-10-20: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars, Contributors
github.com/cmsmadesimple/cmsmadesimple - 2026-10-20: links, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Current major version
docs.cmsmadesimple.org/installation/requirements - 2026-10-20: Maintainer
www.cmsmadesimple.org/about/foundation - 2026-10-20: Databases, Content storage
docs.cmsmadesimple.org/installation/installing - 2026-10-20: Install with, Runs as
docs.cmsmadesimple.org/installation/quick-install - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
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