README

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.

News

CiiMS 2.0.2 Released

CiiMS 2.0.2 is now available. Checkout the release notes for more information.

Installation

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

Benchmarks

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

Screenshots

A beautiful default theme

A powerful dashboard with custom JavaScript cards

Easily browse all content entries

Powerful content editor

Documentation

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

Features

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!

Requirements

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

Recommendations

The following extensions/applications are recommended to improve performance.

phpredis + Redis
Zend Opcache

Support

If you require support, submit a Github issue and I'll look into it as soon as I can.

How Can I Contribute?

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

License

BSD-3--Clause. See LICENSE.md for more details.

charlesportwoodii / ciims

Maintainers

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