# LightCMS

Self-hosted content management system with a web admin, a REST API and an MCP server, written in Go.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/lightcms/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://metavert.io/lightcms
- repository: https://github.com/metavert-io/lightcms
- docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metavert-io/lightcms/main/README.md

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Metavert LLC
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2026
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: cms
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: database
- databases: mongodb
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: go html/template
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: clone the repository, then set a MongoDB connection string

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 7
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-05

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 32
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 1
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metavert-io/lightcms/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- databases: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- headlessApi: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metavert-io/lightcms/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- templating: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/metavert-io/lightcms/contributors?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- contentStore: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- adminUi: https://metavert.io/lightcms (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metavert-io/lightcms/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metavert-io/lightcms/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

LightCMS is a content management system written in Go. It stores its content in MongoDB, and the server is self-hosted. Pages are pre-rendered to static HTML files, and templates use Go html/template. A REST API is what the MCP server and the CLI tool connect to.

## Worth knowing

The server needs a MongoDB Atlas database. Semantic search uses Voyage AI embeddings, and without a Voyage key the search falls back to full-text matching. The chat widget streams answers through Claude Haiku when an Anthropic key is set. The embeddings can instead come from a self-hosted Ollama instance.

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