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bauncms/baun
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A modern, lightweight, extensible CMS for PHP

1.3.2(11y ago)28293636[9 issues](https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/issues)MITPHP

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Baun
====

[](#baun)

Baun is a modern, lightweight, extensible CMS for PHP. Inspired by my last CMS [Pico](http://picocms.org), Baun has been desgined from the ground up as a modern PHP application whilst retaining the same features that made Pico so popular:

- **Simple** - Baun makes creating and maintaining a website as simple as editing text files
- **Fast** - Designed with performance in mind, and no database, making Baun blazing fast
- **Flat** - Baun is designed as a "flat file" CMS, meaning you can completely forget about MySQL
- **Markdown** - Edit your website in your favourite text editor using simple Markdown formatting
- **Twig** - Baun uses the Twig templating engine, for powerful and flexible templates
- **Open Source** - Baun is completely free and open source, released under the MIT license

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Documentation for Baun can be found on the [Baun website](http://bauncms.com).

Framework
---------

[](#framework)

The Framework for Baun is kept in a separate repo. Check out the [Framework](https://github.com/BaunCMS/Framework) if you want to contribute to the core.

Demo
----

[](#demo)

The [bauncms.com](http://bauncms.com) site is built using Baun.

Contribute
----------

[](#contribute)

Want to contribute to Baun? That's great. Here is where you should go:

- [Submit a bug report or feature request](https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/issues)
- [Submit a pull request](https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/pulls)

Note that pull requests should be limited to one feature/fix per request. Pull requests with multiple features/fixes will be rejected.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

Baun was originally created by Gilbert Pellegrom and is currently maintained by [Mark Southard](http://marksouthard.co). Released under the MIT license.

###  Health Score

39

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LowBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity35

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 92.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~2 days

Total

7

Last Release

4079d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/20011de485eeea26b5582c75daaab217937832762b5d5f551d34d07f74138bb0?d=identicon)[gilbitron](/maintainers/gilbitron)

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Top Contributors

[![gilbitron](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/203882?v=4)](https://github.com/gilbitron "gilbitron (58 commits)")[![marksouthard](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/795698?v=4)](https://github.com/marksouthard "marksouthard (5 commits)")

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