BigTree CMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about BigTree CMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From BigTree CMS's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| BigTree CMS | Free | Open-source CMS; self-hosted installation |
The facts
Each one read from BigTree CMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Content governance
- Administrators can set content lifespans and receive automatic email alerts as content approaches its refresh age.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Content scheduling
- Users can schedule pages to publish in the future and set content to expire.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Editorial workflow
- Users can be assigned editor or publisher roles, with editors’ changes requiring publisher approval before going live.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Hosting requirements
- BigTree 4.6 and higher require PHP 8.1 or later and MySQL 5 or a compatible server such as MariaDB.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The features page lists integrations for social services, Disqus, Salesforce, payment gateways, geocoding providers, cloud storage, and Google Analytics.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Media management
- Image management includes control over storage locations and folder access, image sizing, cropping, thumbnails, and grayscale conversion.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- BigTree is an extensible open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security options
- During installation, administrators can choose to force admin logins through HTTPS if the site has an SSL certificate.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- The maker directs users to its discussion forum for questions and GitHub for specific bug reports or feature requests.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Templates
- BigTree uses standard PHP and HTML for content presentation, with no proprietary markup or templating language to learn.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Version history
- BigTree automatically saves page revisions from the past month or the last 10 changes for pages changed less often; users can keep manually saved revisions indefinitely.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Web server support
- The installation guide recommends Apache and says BigTree has also been tested on IIS 7 and 8.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Who it serves
- The maker describes BigTree’s user system as suitable for a single webmaster or large distributed teams.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Baltimore, Maryland, United Stateschecked 19 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
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