CiiMS is a fast, simple, and easy to use, full feature blogging platform and content management system built in Yii. CiiMS is, and will always be free to use and open-source.
CiiMS 2.0.2 Released
CiiMS 2.0.2 is now available. Checkout the release notes for more information.
Interested in a Hosted Solution?
Want to use CiiMS but don't want to deal with hosting? Contact us at contact [at] ciims.io for availability and pricing information.
Do you use CiiMS and love it? Want to show your support? Would you like some free advertising for your site? Create a pull request that modifies this readme and adds a 60x60 avatar image as a link to your site and we'll merge it in!
CiiMS can be quickly installed through composer. For more information about installing CiiMS, checkout the installation guide.
composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev charlesportwoodii/ciims {path} 2.0.2
cd {path}
composer dump-autoload -o
How fast is CiiMS? In a post-installation comparison, using out of the box (non-debug) configurations over SSL, CiiMS outperforms Ghost, Wordpress, Bolt, and OctoberCMS in a 100 user, 10 minute siege test. CiiMS s nearly 30% faster than Ghost, and over 130% faster than Wordpress.
- DigitalOcean 512MB Box
- Ubuntu 14.04 x64 LTS
- Percona Server 5.6
- PHP 5.6.6
- Zend Opcache
- Nginx 1.7.9
- Node 0.10.36
A beautiful default theme
A powerful dashboard with custom JavaScript cards
Easily browse all content entries
Powerful content editor
A demo of CiiMS can be found at:
Site: https://demo.ciims.io
Admin Panel: https://demo.ciims.io/dashboard
You may use the following credentials to login and manage the site.
Username: admin@demo.ciims.io
Password: 14zAjRQagq0CYJTYjoQNA
Please note that this demo is not monitored, and is reset at an unspecified interval and at my discretion. Please be nice. If you find a bug please report it via a Github Issue.
Also note that the demo is currently running on the beta hosted platform availabile at www.ciims.io, and should provide you with a idea of what our current performance look like.
Full documents for CiiMS can be found at docs.ciims.io. Please refer to this guide for installation instructions, development guidelines, and a list of available CLI commands
- Based on Yii Framework
- Installs in 30 seconds
- Utilizes Composer
- Beautiful Default Theme
- Supports Markdown Extra
- SEO Optimized (Sitemap XML, URL Slugs, SEO Meta Tags)
- Password Protected Content
- Site wide and Category Specific RSS Feeds
- Multiple Content Type Support
- Interchangeable Caching Systems (Redis, APC, Memcache, Files)
- Low Memory Footprint
- Themable
- Social Integration (Social Signon, Social Sharing)
- Extendable with custom modules, extensions, themes, and cards
- Beautiful and functional dashboard for managing your content and settings.
- i18n files provided for translations
- Fully Customizable
- Easily install new themes and cards from in a single click
- And a bunch of other things!
As modern blogging platform meant for the next 10 years of writing, CiiMS' requirements are high. To ensure you have all the necessary requirements, CiiMS has a dedicated requirements checker that will run after installing the necessary composer dependencies and will notify you of any missing dependencies.
The requirements checker can be run manually by running: php ./vendor/ciims/requirements/index.php
The following extensions/applications are recommended to improve performance.
If you require support, submit a Github issue and I'll look into it as soon as I can.
We <3 Contributers!
- Submit a detailed bug report
- Implement a new feature
- Fix a bug
- Write additional unit & functional tests
- Translate CiiMS into your favorite/local language
- Create dashboard cards
- Create themes
BSD-3--Clause. See LICENSE.md for more details.