Winter CMS
Open-source PHP content management system built on the Laravel framework, forked from October CMS.
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Winter CMS is a content management system written in PHP on Laravel, with the project’s own Storm library underneath. It began in 2021 as a fork of October CMS. Its themes are plain files, and an optional database layer can store modified CMS files. Themes use Twig. A backend administrator account is created during installation, and multilingual sites use the official Winter.Translate plugin.
The official container image runs FrankenPHP. The Frostbyte Foundation provides organizational backing, Luke Towers leads the project, and paid support is offered by Ringer HQ, a separate company.
Worth knowing
The official marketplace is still in development and lists no extensions; it points to a community list instead. The installation guide lists the PHP extensions the install needs.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Frostbyte Foundation (organizational backing), led by Luke Towers2
- Maintained by
- Foundation1
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request14
- Install with
- composer create-project wintercms/winter, web installer, softaculous, docker37
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: name, links, Maintained by, License model
wintercms.com - 2026-10-18: links, Maintainer, Categories, Built on, Written in, Admin interface, License
github.com/wintercms/winter - 2026-10-18: Runtime, Minimum runtime, Databases, Install with
wintercms.com/docs/v1.2/docs/setup/installation - 2026-10-18: Minimum runtime
repo.packagist.org/p2/wintercms/winter.json - 2026-10-18: Content storage, Templating
wintercms.com/docs/v1.2/docs/cms/themes - 2026-10-18: Multilingual
github.com/wintercms/wn-translate-plugin - 2026-10-18: Install with
wintercms.com/docs/v1.2/docs/architecture/using-composer - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/wintercms/winter/releases/latest - 2026-10-18: GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/wintercms/winter - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/wintercms/winter/contributors - 2026-10-18: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/wintercms/winter.json - 2026-10-18: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/winter/wn-system-module.json - 2026-10-18: links
wintercms.com/marketplace - 2026-10-19: Runs as
wintercms.com/docs/setup/installation - 2026-10-25: Packagist downloads a month
packagist.org/packages/wintercms/winter/stats.json