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 and front-end development that doesn’t make any assumptions about your content or how it should be consumed.
- A built-in Plugin Store with hundreds of free and commercial plugins, all just a click away.
- A robust framework for module and plugin development.
- An active, vibrant community.
You can learn all about it at craftcms.com, and documentation is available at docs.craftcms.com.
Tech Specs
Craft is a self-hosted PHP 7 application, built on Yii 2. It can connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL for content storage. Templating is powered by Twig.
Resources
We highly recommend you check out these resources as you’re getting started with Craft:
- Craft Slack – one of the most friendly and helpful Slacks on the planet.
- Up and Running with Craft 3 – free 4 1/2-hour video course by CraftQuest.
- Craft CMS 3 Orientation Guide – intro to Craft and the community by nystudio107.
- Craft CMS Stack Exchange – community-run Q&A for Craft developers.
- Craft Link List – bimonthly newsletter about the Craft ecosystem.