Welcome to Carnival CMS

The easy-to-use CMS.
Open Source.
Perfect for SEO.
Self-hosted.
Built with F3. Simple. Fast. Easy

Carnival CMS dashboard

Built with F3 - Powerful apps. Less code. Fast.

Crafted with SEO in mind

Self-hosted - Choose your own stack.

Great for web designers

  • Build beautiful websites easily
  • Easy to use
  • Intuitive WYSIWYG editor
  • Unlimited pages
  • Complete flexibility in page layouts
  • Theme-based
    change site appearance easily
  • UI framework-agnostic
  • Comes with image galleries, image rotators, news feeds, etc
  • Files and Media management
  • Social media enabled

Perfect for web developers

  • Made with F3 PHP framework
  • Modular design
    all functionality are done via modules
  • Reusable HTML snippets
  • Very simple, easy-to-use page templating scheme
  • Extensible design
    you can create your own modules
  • Dynamic JS and CSS loading
    only the needed page JS+CSS assets are loaded
  • Active development
    always updated and utilizing the latest in the web

A joy to managers

  • Simple but comprehensive dashboard
    just enough of what you need
  • Google Analytics™-ready
  • Multi-user
    unlimited users
  • User authentication and authorization
  • Multiple user roles
    Admin, Manager, Publisher, Guest
  • Maintenance mode
    site admin can view the website while regular web users see 'Under Maintenance' page

Carnival CMS is SEO-ready

SEO is a must today. That's why these features are built-in

  • Rich snippets
  • Editable page meta tags
  • Dynamic sitemaps
  • Slug-based routes
  • Fast page loading

More features

Carnival CMS has more for you

  • File-based cache
  • Database backups
  • CDN support
  • Dynamic image thumbnails
  • Application log-enabled
  • Page profiles