Features

Carnival CMS Feature List


Carnival CMS is a free, self-hosted CMS built for regular web users and web developers alike.
It is based on the F3 framework.
Fast, modular, template-based, reusable snippets

*Great for regular web designers
- Build beautiful websites easily
- 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
- Media management
- File management
- Easy to use

*Perfect for web developers
- Made with F3 PHP framework
- Modular design - all functionality is 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
- Social media enabled

*A joy for managers
- Simple but comprehensive dashboard
- Google Analytics-ready
- Multi-user
- User authentication and authorization
- User roles [Admin, Manager, Publisher, Guest]
- Maintenance mode - admin users can view the website while regular web users see 'Under Maintenance' page

Perfect for SEO
- Dynamic sitemap (sitemap.xml)
- Editable page meta tags
- Slug-based routes [https://carnivalcms.com/about-us]

Other features:
- File-based cache
- DB backups
- CDN support
- Dynamic image thumbnails
- Application log-enabled
- Page profiles