Quanta CMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Quanta CMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Quanta CMS's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Quanta CMS | Free | Open source · freely available on GitHub |
The facts
Each one read from Quanta CMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Administration limit
- Quanta does not include a default administrator menu; users create their own administration bar and pages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Content editing
- Quanta includes a user interface for content editing and a backend.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Data model
- Quanta stores entity metadata in JSON files within system folders and does not use a database.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editing limit
- The maker says Qtags must currently be inserted manually in the Froala WYSIWYG editor and are displayed as text.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Installation requirements
- Installation requires a UNIX-based operating system, Apache 2.4 or later or Nginx 1.15 or later, PHP 5.6 or later, and Composer; the page advises PHP 7.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker describes CSS Grid integration for arranging components in pages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Notable limits
- The maker says advanced search with exposed or faceted filters is not mature enough for production, and metadata-based listing is slower than folder-based listing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Performance
- The maker says Quanta includes an internal caching system and built-in tools for minifying JavaScript and CSS and compressing images.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Quanta is a modular, PHP-based content management system and framework designed for web applications.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker directs users to GitHub for issues and advanced support requests and to a Facebook group for general support and questions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Templates
- Quanta uses a proprietary template engine and special markup tags called Qtags.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Workflow and access
- The maker says workflow, moderation, and single-node access control are default features.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2015checked 19 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Security approach
- Quanta uses file-system access controls and says its internal user, role, and permission system determines node-level access rights.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Windows support
- The installation instructions say Windows and XAMPP users need a virtual machine to run Quanta.checked 11 Oct 2026
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