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CMS Made Simple
Developer(s)Ted Kulp (Project Leader)
Stable release
1.5.3 Arecibo / March 2, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-03-02)
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitecmsmadesimple.org

CMS Made Simple (abbreviation CMSMS) is an open source Content management system (CMS) built using PHP. Due to its area of focus is used for corporate websites, or the website promoting a team or organization, etc. CMS Made Simple provides a mechanism for the website administrator to create and manage "pages", their layout, and their content. CMS Made Simple separates layout code from content code, so that editors can manage content without having to know much about how websites work. Smarty (a php based templating engine) is used to provide most of the caching, templating, and logic capabilities.

The Core package includes:

  • File Manager
  • Menu Manager
  • Module Manager
  • News (to manage news articles)
  • Printing (printed version of articles)
  • Search
  • Theme Manager
  • TinyMCE (built in WYSIWYG editor)

System requirements

Additional modules

  • Album
  • Guestbook
  • Form Builder
  • Captcha
  • Poll
  • Companies and products directories
  • User management
  • ... full list of additional modules can be found on official development site