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Fast, Simple, Powerful...
Grav is a modern flat-file CMS system that focuses on making web development fun again.
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We believe the best recipe to make something great, is to bake with quality ingredients and add dollops of cool stuff.
Crazy Fast
Easy to build
Awesome Technology
Super Flexible
Abundant Plugins
Free / Open Source
Your Content Unchained!
Grav is a Fast, Simple, and Flexible file-based Web-platform. There is Zero installation required. Just extract the ZIP archive, and you are already up and running. Although Grav follows principles similar to other flat-file CMS platforms, it has a different design philosophy than most.
The name Grav is just a shortened version of the word Gravity. The shared namespace of our platform and a movie starring Sandra Bullock is pure coincidence! More importantly, gravity is also a fundamental physical principle that describes the forces of attraction between objects. Frankly, the name was chosen as a temporary "codename" for the project, and it just stuck.
Grav's Place in the Universe
There are many powerful open source CMS solutions for building complex websites. Some of the more commonly used ones are Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal. The downside of these platforms is that they have a steep learning curve associated with them. This requires a significant amount of your time - and this may be the time that you do not have.
These platforms provide a wealth of features and functionality that you can extend with a wide variety of open source and proprietary plug-ins and themes. These extensions and themes are themselves often feature-packed, requiring more knowledge and time on the part of the developer yet.
In the end, you often find yourself creating a website that requires many plugins and extensions from many different vendors. This can make your design overly complicated and difficult to maintain over the long term.
Grav tackles the problem differently. It focuses primarily on your content and turns your content structure into a navigable site. The underpinnings of Grav are simple, yet via extensive events, you have complete control over every step in the Grav workflow.
This solution allows simple plugins to quickly and easily add powerful functionality. Using Grav also leads to a rapid development environment with an installation process that takes seconds, including a straightforward content creation method with a minimal learning curve. All of this contributes to making Grav friendly to the designer, the developer, and the end user.
To get a basic site up-and-running requires minimal Web development experience. If you dig a little deeper, you will discover that there is very little Grav cannot accomplish.
Powerful Gallery
This gallery module takes advantage of the new premium Lightbox Gallery plugin for Grav. This is a very flexible and configurable plugin which supports a variety of uses including markdown lightbox, shortcode, and twig.
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Stuffed Full of Features
While we cannot possibly list every feature of Grav, we have put together a few key points:
Markdown Syntax
Twig Templating
Smart Caching
Flexible Taxonomies
Simple Install
Powerful Plugins
Intuitive UI
File-Based
Multi-Language
Users & Roles
Image Processing
Documentation
On Github
Responsive Design
CLI Power
Awesomazing
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