• Should be considered unstable
• Not suitable for production use
• API is not stable and subject to change
• PHP 7 is now the minimum requirement

A Sophisticated, lightweight & simple CMS released under the open source MIT-license.

Bolt is a tool for Content Management, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible.

It is quick to set up, easy to configure, uses elegant templates, and above all, it's a joy to use!

Bolt is created using modern open source libraries, and is best suited to build sites in HTML5 with modern markup.

From a technical perspective, Bolt is written in PHP, and built upon the Silex framework together with a number of Symfony components and many other mature and well supported libraries.

Bolt also supports using either SQLite, MySQL (MariaDB) or PostgreSQL as the database platform.

Detailed instructions can be found in the Installation section in the documentation.

Have a question? Want to chat? Run into a problem?

• We have a Slack channel at boltcms.slack.com. To get in, get yourself an invite at slack.bolt.cm
• There’s always some people willing to chat in our IRC channel on Freenode at #boltcms. No IRC client? Use our web-based IRC client
• There's a Forum at discuss.bolt.cm, where we'll gladly help you sort out problems, or discuss other Bolt-related things
• We’re pretty active on Twitter. Follow us, or say hello at @BoltCM

When you run into an issue, be sure to provide some details on the issue.

Please include with your report:

• the (example) input;
• the output you expected;
• the output actually produced.

This way we can reproduce your issue, turn it into a test and prevent the issue from occurring in future versions.

Since Bolt 2.0, you can install extensions and themes directly from Bolt's interface. To browse the available extensions and themes, visit market.bolt.cm.