Piranha CMS
Open source CMS for ASP.NET Core that runs as an integrated CMS or as a headless content store, with an admin panel called the Manager.
Piranha CMS is a content management system for ASP.NET Core, built on .NET 8 and Entity Framework Core. It runs as an integrated CMS inside an ASP.NET Core application or as a headless content store for other applications. Content is kept in a database through Entity Framework Core, and the project publishes data packages for SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Several sites, each with its own content structure, can be mapped to hostnames or subdomains.
The Manager, its admin panel, is built with Bootstrap and Vue.js. New projects come from templates installed with the dotnet CLI, and the templates include a Razor Pages project.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- .NET Foundation and Contributors4
- Maintained by
- Foundation
- First release
- 20176
Rendering and deploy
- Install with
- dotnet new install Piranha.Templates, then dotnet new piranha.razor9
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links, Categories, License, License model, Admin interface
piranhacms.org/ - 2026-10-26: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/PiranhaCMS/piranha.core - 2026-10-26: links
piranhacms.org/docs/master/basics/what-is-piranha - 2026-10-26: Maintainer
github.com/PiranhaCMS/piranha.core/blob/master/LICENSE - 2026-10-26: Runtime, Minimum runtime
piranhacms.org/docs/master/basics/prerequisites - 2026-10-26: First release
api.github.com/repos/PiranhaCMS/piranha.core/git/refs/tags/v4.0.0-alpha1 - 2026-10-26: Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/PiranhaCMS/piranha.core/releases - 2026-10-26: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/PiranhaCMS/piranha.core/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-10-26: Install with
github.com/PiranhaCMS/piranha.core - 2026-10-26: Templating
piranhacms.org/docs/master/basics/project-templates - 2026-10-26: Content storage
piranhacms.org/docs/master/basics/database-setup - 2026-10-26: Databases
piranhacms.org/docs/master/architecture/databases/sql-server - 2026-10-26: Databases
piranhacms.org/docs/master/architecture/databases/sqlite - 2026-10-26: Databases
piranhacms.org/docs/master/architecture/databases/mysql - 2026-10-26: Databases
piranhacms.org/docs/master/basics/packages