ImpressCMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about ImpressCMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From ImpressCMS's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| ImpressCMS | Free | Free and open-source CMS; self-hosted on a web server |
The facts
Each one read from ImpressCMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Extensible modules
- Modules extend core functionality; listed examples include news, contact forms, articles, forums, and an online store.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Feeds
- The downloads area lists Reader, a module for displaying external RSS and Atom newsfeeds on an ImpressCMS site.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- The homepage says ImpressCMS is built to run well on shared hosting, even without caching enabled.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The installation guide says installation often takes no more than five minutes and notes that some web hosts offer automatic installation through Softaculous.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Multilingual
- It supports multiple languages for site content and the user interface, including UTF-8, multibyte languages, and right-to-left languages.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- ImpressCMS is a community-built, open-source, multilingual content management system for the web based on PHP and MySQL.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The installation guide describes installation on a web server and uses PHP and MySQL for the database connection.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The maker describes a trust path for sensitive files, one-way password encoding, built-in HTMLPurifier, StopForumSpam checking, and an integrated Protector module.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security reporting
- The vulnerability report form says the project supports the last minor version of the last two major releases and asks for up to 10 business days to respond.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker provides community forums for general usage, installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, addons, and development questions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Themes and language packs
- The downloads area provides themes to change site appearance and language packs to translate the user interface.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Use cases
- The maker describes it as suitable for sites ranging from small business websites to large company intranets and online communities.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2007checked 19 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 22 Sep 2026
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