Bolt CM
p/bolt-cm
Sophisticated, lightweight and simple CMS written in PHP
Phillipp
Bolt CM β€” Sophisticated, lightweight and simple CMS written in PHP
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Chema
Love open source and new CMS for PHP! congrats all is good and thats why the PHP community is soooo big! Its a pity that still works on PHP 5.3....we should force users therefore hosting companies to update to newer and updated versions of PHP. For security issues mostly but many more reasons.
Phillipp
Hunter
@deambulando Hey Chema, yes the 2.2.x version still works on PHP 5.3 (but not all extensions). The required PHP version will be higher with the upcoming Bolt 3 release.
Frans Twisk
Used it for a project a few months ago and planning to use it for future projects that require a CMS. Full front-end control and flexible but powerful backend.
Florian Wartner
Wow. No description..
Jyri KilpelΓ€inen
Highly recommended! I've used it for our own website as well as a few client sites. Love the flexibility of creating just the content types and fields you actually need! It's also lightweight and fast.
Guido Schmitz
Great CMS! Really good at bootstrapping websites in no time as well to create larger websites. The main thing I like about the CMS is that it's so flexible. The support in the Slack channel is great as well! πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ”₯πŸ”₯
Jamie Akers
Absolutely love Bolt. It's simple, light-weight, responsive and everything a blogger needs in the modern web.
Phillipp
Hunter
Bolt is the best CMS I have ever used! With its concept of Contenttypes you are no longer locked in Posts and Pages and can create almost everything you want. And with its "Do it as extension" principle you'll get a very clean CMS which can be extended with easy-to-write extensions. Bolt has also an awesome and funny community which is always happy to help newcomers with they first steps into the CMS. You can join the community in the forum on https://discuss.bolt.cm/ and the Slack channel on http://slack.bolt.cm/.
Matthias Esterl
By now, we have successfully lunched quite a couple of projects on Bolt. Besides having a super-clean code base and the most amazing community (really! join the Slack channel and see for yourself!), it uses Twig for templating. Thids gives you as a frontend dev a freedom, you not used to from Wordpress or any other cms. But the real killer feature are the configurable content types, that allow you to create any kind of content (pages, projects, a gallery,...) and customized input field with just a couple of lines in the configuration. So no need to write an extension, just have a neat gallery or portfolio. But if you come to a point where an extra feature, Bolt also got you covered with super-detailed docs and did I already mention, the community super helpful! We are currently developing an extension to enable multiple language-support (https://github.com/AnimalDesign/...).
Matthias Esterl

If you thinking about building a website with Wordpress, Bolt is definitely the better choice.

Pros:

Configurable contenttypes, Symfony-based, Twig as tempalte engine, easily extensible and the best community you could wish for!

Cons:

WYSIWYG editor needs improvement (WIP)