About Craft CMS
Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web—and beyond.
People who use Craft love its…
- …intuitive, user-friendly control panel for content creation and administrative tasks;
- …clean-slate approach to content modeling and front-end development that doesn’t make any assumptions about your content or how it should be delivered;
- …official Plugin Store with hundreds of free and commercial plugins (opens new window);
- …robust framework for plugin development;
- …active, vibrant community (opens new window);
You can learn all about it at craftcms.com (opens new window).
#Getting Started
Welcome to the alpha! Ready to try out a bleeding-edge version of Craft? Spin up a new project or upgrade an existing one.
You’ll notice that the docs are relatively sparse for 6.x! Our work so far as focused on the Laravel port and adapter, but we are slowly pivoting into feature development on the new platform. Craft remains functionally very similar to 5.x, and most of the control panel will be identical… so we’re using this space to focus on the upgrade process! Closer to release, we’ll start replicating the structure and content of 5.x.
#Tech Specs
Craft is a self-hosted PHP application, built on Laravel (opens new window). It can connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for content storage. Server-side rendering is powered by Twig (opens new window), and headless applications have access to content via a GraphQL API.