CouchCMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about CouchCMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From CouchCMS's own pricing page, checked 23 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source | — | Attribution hyperlink required · No original-developer support |
| Open Source License | Free | free to use, modify, and distribute · commercial use permitted · source code authorship attribution required |
| Commercial License | $69, paid once | single website/domain · white-label admin panel · remove rendered attribution hyperlink · one month premium support · life time |
The facts
Each one read from CouchCMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- CouchCMS supports user accounts in four groups and offers access controls for templates, pages, and page elements; its documentation describes the mechanism as fairly coarse.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Admin panel
- The admin panel starts blank so designers can add only the elements clients need to edit.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Content features
- The documentation lists editable regions, cloned pages, folders, archives, forms, comments, search, events calendar, galleries, relationships, and on-page editing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Design preservation
- CouchCMS says it does not add its own markup to a design, keeping the CMS-managed site faithful to the original static design.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hosting requirements
- CouchCMS requires PHP 5.0.0 or greater, MySQL 4.1.2 or greater, and Apache or a compatible web server; Microsoft IIS is unsupported.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The documentation describes PayPal integration for single-item payments and Google Maps through a Couch tag.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License scope
- The commercial license is per domain and permits use on one website; another commercial project requires another license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Optional server features
- The GD library is optional for CAPTCHA, and Apache mod_rewrite is optional for pretty URLs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- PayPal limit
- The current version supports single-item purchase payments and lacks advanced options such as shipping charges and volume- or weight-based pricing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- PHP knowledge
- The maker says no prior PHP knowledge is required, while its documentation requires working knowledge of HTML and CSS and basic website creation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- CouchCMS retrofits into an existing static site so web designers can make it CMS-managed using Couch tags.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security claim
- The maker says CouchCMS is time-tested and protects sites from web attacks such as XSS and CSRF.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- The open-source version comes without support; a commercial license includes one month of unlimited premium support by forum, email, and IM.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker identity
- The site footer identifies the maker as Webzyme Softwares Pvt. Ltd.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
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