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🧿 Bolt Core

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 [![Bolt logo](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3c3ae4282314d2b5f3aa3d5bc501c39d29403a07466c0bf79225b133fe7f9498/68747470733a2f2f626f6c74636d732e696f2f7468656d652f626f6c74636d732d323032312f696d672f6c6f676f2e737667)
 ](https://boltcms.io/)
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[](#--------)

#### The starting point of your new website

[](#the-starting-point-of-your-new-website)

 [Key Features](#key-features) • [How To Use](#how-to-use) • [How To Contribute](#how-to-contribute) • [Credits](#credits) • [License](#license)

[![Bolt screenshot](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5928d61ba2c05ccb14a67b5db547bb5730abb36e682d71aea955ff27308fd585/68747470733a2f2f626f6c74636d732e696f2f66696c65732f686f6d65706167652f323032302f30392f53636865726d61666265656c64696e672d323032302d30392d32342d6f6d2d31322d34372d32322e706e67)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5928d61ba2c05ccb14a67b5db547bb5730abb36e682d71aea955ff27308fd585/68747470733a2f2f626f6c74636d732e696f2f66696c65732f686f6d65706167652f323032302f30392f53636865726d61666265656c64696e672d323032302d30392d32342d6f6d2d31322d34372d32322e706e67)

Key Features
------------

[](#key-features)

Bolt is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running modern websites. It's built on PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, Twig, API-Platform and more. Bolt can be used as a traditional CMS or headless/decoupled. It is fully multilingual, and extensible using custom code in your projects, or through extensions installed from the Composer ecosystem.

- **Built with Symfony**: fully extensible with Symfony 5 extensions
- **YAML configuration**: Adding new types of pages, new fields, new languages, etc. is all done in neat YAML.
- **Built-in internationalisation** and Editor available in 15 languages.
- **Out-of-the-box API**: RESTful and GraphQL
- **Dummy content** to test your site in development or show it to a client
- **Best rich content editors** Fully licensed Redactor and Article fields to fit any content, for free.

Supported versions
------------------

[](#supported-versions)

Only the latest minor release of Bolt is officially supported, which currently is Bolt 6.x!

Repository state
----------------

[](#repository-state)

Sadly, the previous main maintainer Bob den Otter has passed early 2024 (rest in peace). Since then new maintainers have been found which means that this project will continue to be developed and maintained!

How To Use
----------

[](#how-to-use)

To create a new Bolt Project, check out the instructions in Bolt's [distribution repository](https://github.com/bolt/project/).

For **development** of Bolt CMS itself, check out the [setup guide](./SETUP.md)

How To Contribute
-----------------

[](#how-to-contribute)

There are multiple ways to help the Bolt project going forward:

- Star this repository
- Learn how to [spread the word](https://docs.bolt.cm/other/contributing)
- Help by writing and [contributing code or documentation](https://docs.bolt.cm/other/contributing)

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

Bolt development has benefited from:

- [Bob den Otter](https://github.com/bobdenotter)
- [Two Kings - Artisinal Web Development](https://www.twokings.nl/)

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

---

> [boltcms.io](https://boltcms.io) · GitHub [bolt](https://github.com/bolt) · Twitter [@BoltCMS](https://twitter.com/BoltCMS)

###  Health Score

73

—

ExcellentBetter than 100% of packages

Maintenance83

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity55

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community49

Growing community involvement

Maturity93

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50.1% 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 ~10 days

Recently: every ~21 days

Total

254

Last Release

53d ago

Major Versions

4.2.5 → 5.0.52021-10-24

4.2.x-dev → 5.2.0-beta.12022-05-24

5.1.x-dev → 6.0.0-beta.12025-12-04

5.2.4 → 6.0.02026-01-01

5.2.5 → 6.0.12026-01-12

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0-alpha1PHP ^7.1.3

4.0.0-alpha3PHP &gt;=7.1.3

4.0.0-beta.4.4PHP &gt;=7.2.9

6.0.0-beta.1PHP &gt;=8.2

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1835343?v=4)[Bob van de Vijver](/maintainers/bobvandevijver)[@bobvandevijver](https://github.com/bobvandevijver)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3901745?v=4)[Tobias Feijten](/maintainers/tobias-93)[@tobias-93](https://github.com/tobias-93)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1833361?v=4)[Bob den Otter](/maintainers/bobdenotter)[@bobdenotter](https://github.com/bobdenotter)

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/78ae1389d35ad7a4cda25bce02c73b64994823df39bc8bd023eea17dd4a54dc9?d=identicon)[I-Valchev](/maintainers/I-Valchev)

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Top Contributors

[![bobdenotter](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1833361?v=4)](https://github.com/bobdenotter "bobdenotter (4403 commits)")[![I-Valchev](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7093518?v=4)](https://github.com/I-Valchev "I-Valchev (2244 commits)")[![nestordedios](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6607455?v=4)](https://github.com/nestordedios "nestordedios (338 commits)")[![Joossensei](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/40595903?v=4)](https://github.com/Joossensei "Joossensei (316 commits)")[![bobvandevijver](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1835343?v=4)](https://github.com/bobvandevijver "bobvandevijver (263 commits)")[![jackiboy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16835243?v=4)](https://github.com/jackiboy "jackiboy (250 commits)")[![simongroenewolt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3960?v=4)](https://github.com/simongroenewolt "simongroenewolt (168 commits)")[![JarJak](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4981490?v=4)](https://github.com/JarJak "JarJak (112 commits)")[![xiaohutai](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4630335?v=4)](https://github.com/xiaohutai "xiaohutai (84 commits)")[![LordSimal](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9105243?v=4)](https://github.com/LordSimal "LordSimal (81 commits)")[![rixbeck](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/761149?v=4)](https://github.com/rixbeck "rixbeck (57 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (50 commits)")[![Blepeian](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/72384461?v=4)](https://github.com/Blepeian "Blepeian (46 commits)")[![stellakasabova](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/36966722?v=4)](https://github.com/stellakasabova "stellakasabova (44 commits)")[![sbonardt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5597447?v=4)](https://github.com/sbonardt "sbonardt (35 commits)")[![mcdennem](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49211363?v=4)](https://github.com/mcdennem "mcdennem (33 commits)")[![WellinqScience1337](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/130479210?v=4)](https://github.com/WellinqScience1337 "WellinqScience1337 (30 commits)")[![macintoshplus](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/814683?v=4)](https://github.com/macintoshplus "macintoshplus (29 commits)")[![TomasVotruba](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/924196?v=4)](https://github.com/TomasVotruba "TomasVotruba (28 commits)")[![Spomsoree](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14187981?v=4)](https://github.com/Spomsoree "Spomsoree (23 commits)")

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Tags

apiapi-platformboltcmsdoctrinehacktoberfestheadlessmultilingualphpsymfonytwigvue

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan, Rector

Code StyleECS

Type Coverage Yes

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