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Bolt CMS

Open source content management system built on Symfony

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Bolt is an open source content management system built as a Symfony application, designed for developers, frontend designers, and content editors. It addresses the need to define structured content, render it through templates, and expose it to other platforms, supporting both traditional and headless setups.

Content is structured through ContentTypes defined in YAML, with rendering handled by Twig templates and content retrieval via the setcontent tag. Bolt includes built-in internationalisation with field-level translation control, the Redactor and Article rich text editors, dummy content generation, and a RESTful and GraphQL API for headless use. Symfony extensions can extend project functionality.

Bolt is packaged as open source software, with no paid editions or usage-based plans indicated.

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