Open Source Content Management System
Why choose CMS Made Simple™?
CMS Made Simple offers an easy to use interface for end users, while maintaining a powerful backend for developers.With an extensive API combined with the Smarty templating engine, custom modules and tags are a breeze.If you can make it with HTML and CSS, it can be a CMS Made Simple design. No need to purchase templates or add PHP code.With a large range of third party modules and tags, you can easily turn your sites into feature-rich applications.We encourage open collaboration. Join the Dev Team and contribute, or fork the project to bend it to your will!
Who is CMS Made Simple™ for?
For Editors
Maintain and update your site quickly and easily from anywhere with a web connection.
For Designers
Freedom to design the site you want. Straightforward templating that makes turning your designs into pages a breeze.
For Developers
A modular and extensible Content Management System that, with the Smarty templating engine, is easy to customize to create the sites and applications you want.
Latest Releases
ContentTools 1.0.0
9 October 2025
CMSMSExt 1.5.2
9 October 2025
Fetch SVG 1.0
7 October 2025
Optimize 1.0
7 October 2025
KSmarterImage 1.0
7 October 2025
KStyle 2.0
5 October 2025
TinyMCE 4.0.0-beta1
17 September 2025
Latest Forum Posts
French - Français • Future Version 2.2.23
By "jce76350" at 9 October 2025 - 06:18
Developers Discussion • Nesting User-Defined Tags in CMS Made Simple
By "Williami" at 8 October 2025 - 03:10
French - Français • Re: Info version PHP
By "jce76350" at 7 October 2025 - 07:49
Announcements
CMS Made Simple Joins GitHub, Ushering in a New Era of Community Collaboration
Posted January 31, 2025 by scotch33
Category: General, Announcements
The Dev Team is delighted to make a big announcement today. The CMS Made Simple code base is now set up and available as a GitHub project.
Read MoreCMSMS vs WordPress – a personal opinion
Posted September 13, 2024 by simon
Category: General
An experienced web developer who has been using Wordpress for a few years asked me to convince her why she should be using CMSMS. Even though she is a capable coder, projects were taking too much time. Mainly because WordPress was making it harder than necessary. So I told her...
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