Click CMS

A modern PHP CMS with plugin architecture, Vue admin UI, Visual Builder, and marketplace.

Features

• Plugin Architecture - Extend functionality with 40+ built-in plugins
• Visual Builder - Drag-and-drop page builder with responsive layouts
• Modern Admin UI - Vue 3 + Astro with collapsible sidebar, theme toggle
• REST & GraphQL APIs - Headless content management
• Marketplace - GitHub Pages-based plugin marketplace with signed manifests
• Two Storage Backends - flat JSON files by default, SQLite when you want one

Quick Start

# Install dependencies
composer install
cd admin-ui && npm install

# Start development servers

# Terminal 1: PHP server
php -S localhost:8080 -t public

# Terminal 2: Admin UI (Vue dev server)
cd admin-ui && npm run dev

• Public Site: http://localhost:8080
• Admin UI: http://localhost:4321/admin/
• API: http://localhost:8080/api/

Demo Credentials

• Username: admin
• Password: admin

Storage

Content is stored as flat JSON files by default — no database, nothing to install. To use SQLite instead, set the backend in config/core.json:

{
  "core": {
    "storage": {
      "backend": "sqlite",
      "sqlite": { "path": "data/content.sqlite" }
    }
  }
}

backend accepts json or sqlite; SQLite additionally needs PHP's pdo_sqlite extension. An unrecognised backend, or SQLite without the extension, fails at boot with a message saying what to change — it never falls back silently. Switching backends does not migrate existing content. See docs/core.md for the details.

Plugins

Core Plugins (Pre-installed)

• REST API - RESTful content API
• GraphQL API - GraphQL endpoint
• Visual Builder - Drag-and-drop page builder

Available Plugins

• Authentication & 2FA
• SEO Optimization
• Image Optimization
• Cache (Redis/Memcached)
• Forms Builder
• Comments System
• Tags & Categories
• Custom Fields
• Content Blocks
• Multi-language (i18n)
• Email/SMTP
• Webhooks
• Scheduled Publishing
• Rate Limiting
• Redirects
• And more...

Architecture

click/
├── src/                    # Core application
│   ├── Application/        # Application services
│   ├── Core/               # Main Application class
│   └── Domain/             # Domain models
├── plugins/                # Plugins (40+)
│   ├── rest-api/
│   ├── graphql/
│   ├── visual-builder/
│   └── ...
├── admin-ui/              # Vue 3 + Astro admin
│   └── src/components/
├── config/                # Configuration
├── marketplace/           # Marketplace files
├── sdk/                   # PHP SDK for plugins
└── public/                # Web root

Development

# Run tests
composer test

# Build admin UI
cd admin-ui && npm run build

License

MIT