About Craft CMS
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.
- A fast and flexible templating system based on Twig.
- An auto-generated GraphQL API for building headless applications.
- A powerful ecommerce platform for building bespoke ecommerce experiences.
- A built-in Plugin Store with hundreds of free and commercial plugins.
- A robust extension framework for advanced customization.
- An active, vibrant community.
You can learn more about it at craftcms.com, or dive into the documentation at craftcms.com/docs.
Tech Specs
Craft is a self-hosted PHP application. It can connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL for content storage. See Server Requirements for more details.
Resources
Official
- Website — Welcome to Craft!
- Tutorial — Build a blog with step-by-step instructions.
- Installation — Jump right in with Composer.
- Documentation — Read the official docs.
- Knowledge Base — Find answers to common problems.
- Newsletter — Get official news and community updates.
- Dot All — Attend our annual conference.
Community
- #craftcms — See the latest tweets about Craft.
- Discord — Meet the community.
- Stack Exchange — Get help and help others.
- CraftQuest — Watch unlimited video lessons and courses.
- nystudio107 Blog — Learn Craft and modern web development.
