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Kirby 3.0 - The file-based content management sytem

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Some of the highlights in Kirby 3:

- Fully customizable, Vue-based admin interface

- Headless CMS option to use Kirby with your SPA, mobile applications or static site generators.

- Generate pages from any data source, such as databases, APIs, JSON files or anything else that's parseable by PHP.

- Brand new plugin system

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Bastian Allgeier
Maker
Hey everyone, I'm Bastian, the founder of Kirby. We are super excited to introduce our new third major release of Kirby after two years of development and almost exactly seven years after Kirby 1. With this new version, we wanted to build a system that adapts to your projects like no other. A CMS that doesn't get in your way and always feels like an exclusive custom solution for your clients. We really hope you like it and can't wait to hear your thoughts. The team and I will be around in the next days to answer your questions. All the best, Bastian
Pedro Borges

I've been developing websites and plugins with the previous version for 3 years and have had a great experience with it. I find it great for building custom websites. My clients love the simplicity of the Panel too.

Pros:

- Flexible for custom websites - Easy to integrate with external services - Well documented - Friendly & helpful community

Cons:

- Few cons to make any difference in my CMS choice

Hunter
Kirby has always been focused on simplicity and enabling self-publishers to create beautiful websites. v3 adds a load of new features, a refreshed admin interface, all on top of the same flat-file system that makes it so simple.
Vlad Korobov
Visual editor and file upload was a pain in earlier version. How it is now?
Bastian Allgeier
Maker
@vladkorobov thank you for your question! It's really hard to compare version 1 from seven years ago with version 3. Kirby has evolved pretty massively in the meantime and especially with this last release. With v3 you can add files to any type of page with a multi-file drag & drop uploader. The uploader can validate uploads based on the file size, dimensions, ratio, mime type and more. You can group uploads in different areas, such as a gallery, cover, pdf downloads or whatever you need for a specific type of page. About the visual editor: as part of our philosophy not to add too much bloat upfront, we don't deliver Kirby with a wysiwyg editor. Every project has different requirements there in our experience. But there's a great visual markdown editor plugin based on Prosemirror: https://github.com/sylvainjule/k..., a wysiwyg based on Tiptap.js https://tiptap.scrumpy.io/ is in the making and you can bring your own favorite wysiwyg with our field plugin api.
Manuel Moreale

Been using Kirby 2 for years, was and still am part of the supporters who helped with the development phase of the v3. I absolutely love Kirby. How love how flexible and how un-opinionated it is. I also, quite weirdly, love that it's a commercial product. In a world full of "free" products that derail quickly it's nice to see a commercial product taken care of properly. The team is committed, the community is great and everyone is genuinely doing their best to make it a growing success.

Pros:

- Its flexibility - Ease of use - The excellent community around it - The team behind it

Cons:

- Right now probably the lack of a better built-in text editor but plugins are coming

Vlad Korobov
And how about uploading and hosting html, js, css? For example I create a page with webflow and want to host it?
Manuel Moreale
@vladkorobov That's a weird question. Kirby has never had anything to do with hosting. I'm not familiar with webflow but I think they do offer hosting for sites made with their tool.
Vlad Korobov
@manuelmoreale there was no ability to upload js,css,html in Kirby. Can I just upload static webpages so they would work if my website is on Kirby?
Manuel Moreale
@vladkorobov Well kirby is designed to be used as a framework/cms to build custom websites so the ability to upload css/js/html directly into a page is a very unique and specific need. I personally never tried to do that, as a developer I never had the need to do it honestly. That said, I don't honestly know if you can or cannot do that. I'll let @bastianallgeier answer that particular question since he knows better than me when can and cannot be done with the new K3
Bastian Allgeier
Maker
@vladkorobov @manuelmoreale no, that’s not the way Kirby was designed. But you can take Webflow templates as a starting point and convert them to Kirby templates without too much work. There’s no uploaded or automatic conversion tool though. You still need a few html/css and php skills to do that.
Josh Heyer

I'm a big fan of Bastian's approach to developing both Kirby and the community around it. The CMS is top notch and community the really helps you make the most out of it. Highly recommended!

Pros:

- Easy to use - Lightweight - Crazy flexible - Fantastic community - Highly customizable control panel

Cons:

Might be too flexible for some folks. ;)

Jonathan Muth

Kirby allowed me to get started as a professional web developer and it has grown with me and on me. So glad to see Bastian and the team take my favorite CMS to the next level.

Pros:

- Hits the sweet spot between flexibility and ease-of-use - Adapts to most usage scenarios - Comes with a built-in REST API - Great docs

Cons:

- Using a PHP-based CMS in 2019 may feel anachronistic to some (but I guarantee: It is well worth it)

Hans Pagel

it's the best file based cms out there, give it a try

Pros:

very easy to learn file based, doesn't need a database very flexible (API!)

Cons:

no idea

Manuel Moreale
Been a fan of Kirby 2 for years and I'm super excited to finally being able to use Kirby 3. Congrats to @bastianallgeier and the Kirby Team for the launch of the V3, can't wait to see what will come next.
Bastian Allgeier
Maker
@manuelmoreale thanks for the kind words, Manu!
Florian

I've started using Kirby 2 two years ago for a non-profit organisation and instantly fell in love with it. Since that I've learned a lot through Kirby's detailed documentation and its awesome community. Nowadays I'm building all my clients websites with Kirby.

Pros:

The possibility to adapt Kirby to your needs Beginner friendly The new Vue based panel The community

Cons:

No cons for me. Sorry!

MJ Amartaivan
Amazing! Kirby v3 is up yay !
Arthur Schmitt
Kirby is amazing. I've been using it for years. Really excited about V3!
Mathias Gmeiner

I‘m a Kirby user since v1, never looked back

Pros:

Simplicity and great performance

Cons:

Hm, hard to tell, I‘m really happy with it. The docs are nicely done, but they could be more detailed

Roman Steiner

Our agency uses Kirby for almost every website that goes on shared hostings. Kirby 3 puts the thing on a whole new level with the (more) customizable panel and the ability to include custom data sources. Security: we never had a Kirby powered website hacked. Power: as a developer you can control all aspects of your website. Simplicity: you don't have to control all aspects. Structured content: no "blog entries with meta fields". You save "articles", "art pieces", "bananas", "whatevers". All have the properties you decide. Deployment: drag a folder into filezilla. Composer and git workflows are supported too. Performance: getkirby.com (runs on Kirby): TTFB is ~20ms. That's what you get as ping in FPS games. Flexibility: simple websites, large websites, PWAs. with or without databases. headless CMS or any templating engine in PHP. Friendly, healthy, community: lots of people are willing to help you out on the forum. You need to have a minimum of coding experience: it's not enough to just click on stuff to create your website. It's not wordpress, wix or squarespace.

Pros:

- Security - Power - Simplicity - Structured content - Deployment - Performance - Flexibility - Community

Cons:

- Developer experience required

Cre8iv Click

Kirby has increasingly become our CMS of choice, due to its flexibility, gentle learning curve, incredible speed, and outstanding community. If you haven't tried it, you're missing out.

Pros:

- Amazingly flexible and full-featured - 'Flat-File' means FAST - plays nicely with CDNs - Secure and stable - Great docs, awesome community

Cons:

- because it is such a pleasure to use, it will 'spoil' you, and make you less likely to use other CMSs

Francesco Eandi
I really love Kirby. It's very easy to reach great goals with it without being too tech savy. Can't wait to upgrade to version 3.0
Jonno Riekwel
I've been a long term Kirby fan. It's the perfect cms when you like using PHP, aren't ready to jump to things like React, but still want to have control over what you're building. Kirby is surprisingly powerful when you figure out how it works. You can build almost anything.
Nife Oluyemi
Congrats on the launch of version3! I like that the tool is easy to setup and learn. I am doing a Product challenge for 20 days where I write about the #1 product on PH. Today, day 17, I wrote about Kirby - https://medium.com/@nife/product...
Thomas Günther
@nifeoluyemi Nice article! You wrote this though: „Kirby was created as a lightweight file based CMS for those with little technical know-how, who want to create a simple site without a requiring database.“ I don‘t know if that describes Kirby correctly. Not having a database doesn‘t automatically mean „simple website“. Just have a look at https://getkirby.com/love
Hristiyan Dodov

I've been using Kirby 2 for well over a year on projects big and small. I've developed plugins for it too, the most powerful one of which allows you to translate your content via the popular TMS, Memsource. Kirby is that flexible, yes. You can make it work the way you need it to. I can't wait to get into Kirby 3!

Pros:

- Active community - Nested structured fields - Vue running the admin panel - Flexible - Easy to understand - Well documented

Cons:

- When I type "kirby" in Google, the first result is the video game character