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Craft CMS

Craft CMS

Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond

Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.

It features:

  • An intuitive, user-friendly control panel for content creation and administrative tasks.
  • A clean-slate approach to content modeling that doesn’t make any assumptions about the content you need to manage.
  • An auto-generated GraphQL API that can be consumed for building headless applications.
  • A fast and flexible templating system based on Twig for building traditional websites.
  • A powerful ecommerce platform for building bespoke ecommerce experiences.
  • A built-in Plugin Store with hundreds of free and commercial plugins.
  • A first-party Gatsby source plugin.
  • A robust framework for module and plugin development.
  • An active, vibrant community.

Craft is a self-hosted PHP application. It can connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL for content storage. See Server Requirements for more details.

Pros for developers building on Craft CMS

  • Matured solution of over a decade
  • Built on an open source platform
  • Community and Training
  • Quick app approval process

Cons for developers building on Craft CMS

  • Apps have a lower price point