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.

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.

• Documentation – Read the official docs.
• Guides – Follow along with the official guides.
• #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.
• Craft Link List – Stay in-the-know.
• nystudio107 Blog – Learn Craft and modern web development.

If you’re new to Craft CMS the best place to start is the tutorial.

To start getting acquainted with how content modeling works in Craft, read Sections and Entries and Fields.

Before installing, check out the Server Requirements and Installation Instructions.

Finally, read the Front-End Development section when you’re ready to start building out the front-end of your site or application.