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CMS Made Simple

Flexible CMS for small and medium business sites

Content Management Systems ★ 20 stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

CMS Made Simple is an open-source content management system aimed at developers and designers who need to build manageable websites for clients. It provides a smart caching system, a flexible template engine, and a large module repository.

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Key features

  • Smart caching
  • Module repository
  • Template inheritance
  • Designer-friendly

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Written in PHP
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is CMS Made Simple secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for CMS Made Simple's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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