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crankybearmedia/crankierkit
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An opinionated scaffold of a Kirby CMS PlainKit project using Composer for PHP dependencies.

v1.0.2(2y ago)118GPL-3.0PHPPHP >=8.0.0 <8.2.0

Since Aug 24Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

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CrankierKit: Another riff on Kirby Plainkit
===========================================

[](#crankierkit-another-riff-on-kirby-plainkit)

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

This was a quirky and opinionated version of [Kirby Plainkit](https://GitHub.com/getkirby/plainkit.git). It was intended to be used on shared hosting plans that allow the user to load files *outside* the public web root directory. It was configured to work on [Siteground](https://siteground.com) hosting out of the box, but can be easily adapted to other hosts. There are no symlinks; the only files in the public web root directory are those that absolutely have to be there. Everything else is safely outside the web server's gaze.

I've moved on to a new hosting platform for my stuff and there's no need for this. I'm archiving it rather than deleting it because I'm fundamentally a hoarder and there *might be\[!!!\]*\* something in here I'll regret deleting even though I have copies elsewhere.

### So, About Kirby CMS ...

[](#so-about-kirby-cms-)

I'm a big fan of [Kirby CMS](https://getkirby.com). It's a great piece of software backed by a great little company and a community of loyal users. I have no connection with them except as a happily *paying* customer. ***Kirby is not free software***. If you're going to use it in a public environment, you **must** buy a license either directly from them or through a Kirby plugin author's website (same price, just helps support the Kirby ecoystem). You can find [everything you'd ever want to know](https://getkirby.com/license) about licensing Kirby on their website.

Obligatory Disclaimer
---------------------

[](#obligatory-disclaimer)

This was made for my personal use and I don't have that use anymore.

###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 90.9% 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 ~17 days

Total

3

Last Release

1010d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9867009ad734899b0605e25310085378bc358635456d070543b38859dc23c8e7?d=identicon)[tom\_streeter](/maintainers/tom_streeter)

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Top Contributors

[![tomstreeter](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/284185?v=4)](https://github.com/tomstreeter "tomstreeter (20 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (2 commits)")

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Tags

kirbykirby-cmskirby3

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