Development status Active Operating system | Written in PHP | |
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Developer(s) Alexey Bobkov, Samuel Georges Initial release May 15, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-05-15) Stable release 382 / November 17, 2016 | ||
OctoberCMS is a free, open source and self-hosted content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application framework. It currently supports MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL for the database backend and uses a flat file database for the front end structure.
October is marketed as a "back to basics" web platform that makes website creation, design, and editing faster and more intuitive. The October CMS covers an extensive range of capabilities such as users, permissions, and plugins; it can be utilized to build everything from simple promotional sites to powerful web applications. Like WordPress, October relies on themes.
The platform is criticised for not being client friendly and is generally favoured among developers for having a small learning curve and its unique template system that is easily manageable with version control systems. It is currently the most starred PHP CMS repository hosted on GitHub.
Features
October takes full advantage of its underlying PHP framework, Laravel, and all of these benefits are intrinsically available to the developer. It also offers some features that make it unique as a platform.