CMS Made Simple
The facts below are what the maker publishes about CMS Made Simple, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From CMS Made Simple's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| CMS Made Simple | Free | Open-source CMS; downloadable software |
The facts
Each one read from CMS Made Simple's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Add-on directory
- The CMS Made Simple Forge lists downloadable projects, including modules and tools.checked 11 Oct 2026
- API
- The project publishes API documentation for CMS Made Simple.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Community support
- The development team says its members meet on Slack and invites contributors in development, design, marketing, testing, support, and translations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Extensibility
- The project provides modules, plugins, and user-defined tags for adding functionality.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hire a developer
- The development team directs users seeking custom work to its Hire a Dev request option.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Module development
- Modules can provide functionality in both the admin console and frontend pages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Not a hosted service
- The product is distributed as software through its download links, and its published team page describes freelance development services.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Page templates
- Content pages are connected to page templates that define how they look to visitors.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- CMS Made Simple is a content management system for building and managing websites.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- A 2025 release announcement says CMS Made Simple 2.2.22 fixes bugs including user-defined-tag code execution on save.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Supported versions
- The 2025 release announcement states that versions 2.2.21 and 2.2.22 were the only officially supported versions at that time.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Template engine
- CMS Made Simple uses the Smarty PHP template engine for dynamic parts of templates.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 22 Sep 2026
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