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pennebaker/craft-architect
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CraftCMS plugin to generate content models from JSON/YAML data.

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Architect plugin for Craft CMS 3/4
==================================

[](#architect-plugin-for-craft-cms-34)

A plugin for importing and exporting content models from [Craft CMS](http://craftcms.com/) using JSON.

[![Screenshot](resources/img/the-architect.png)](resources/img/the-architect.png)

Related: [Architect for Craft 2.x](https://github.com/Pennebaker/craftcms-thearchitect)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3/4.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    ```
    cd /path/to/project

    ```
2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    ```
    composer require pennebaker/craft-architect

    ```
3. a. In the terminal run

    ```
    ./craft plugin/install architect

    ```

    ***or***

    b. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Architect.

Architect Overview
------------------

[](#architect-overview)

The architect can import and export just about anything in craft that needs to be configured. *ex. It can help with migrations by adding new fields needed by a structuring update and export existing fields for use on another website.*

Configuring Architect
---------------------

[](#configuring-architect)

There isn't much to configure in Architect right now.

JSON Schema
-----------

[](#json-schema)

The example / syntax schemas are located on the [Repo's Wiki](https://github.com/Pennebaker/craft-architect/wiki)

If you're using the [Atom text editor](https://atom.io/), you can download a [snippet library](https://github.com/Emkaytoo/craft-json-snippets) to help speed up your writing custom models for the plugin. *(Might not be updated for the Craft 3 version of architect yet)*

You can also use YAML if you prefer.

Build Order
-----------

[](#build-order)

This is used to process blueprint files in a specific order. The files path is in relation to `config/architect`. They can be either a json or yaml file.

```
{
  "buildOrder": [
    "assets.json",
    "blog.yaml"
  ]
}
```

Using Architect
---------------

[](#using-architect)

Visit architect in the admin CP for importing / exporting just about anything using JSON.

Current Working Imports:

- Site Groups
- Sites
- Routes
- Sections
- Entry Types
- Asset Volumes
- Asset Transforms
- Tag Groups
- Category Groups
- Field Groups
- Fields
- Global Sets
- User Groups
- Users

Current Working Import and Update:

- Fields

Current Working Exports:

- Site Groups
- Sites
- Routes
- Sections
- Entry Types
- Asset Volumes
- Asset Transforms
- Tag Groups
- Category Groups
- Field Groups
- Fields
- Global Sets
- User Groups
- Users

Architect Roadmap
-----------------

[](#architect-roadmap)

Some things to do and ideas for potential features:

\[2.0.0\] ***complete***

- Importing

\[2.1.0\] ***complete***

- Exporting

\[2.2.0\] ***complete***

- Importing Users
- Exporting Users

\[2.3.0\] ***complete***

- Importing Routes
- Exporting Routes
- YAML Support
- Command Line Importing
- Build order importing
- Import and Update Fields

\[2.4.0\] ***complete***

- Craft 3.5 Field Layout

\[x.5.0 and later\] ***brainstorming***

- Import and Update (Non Fields)
- Commerce Support
- Store for sharing blueprints

Brought to you by [Pennebaker](https://pennebaker.com)

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity43

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity75

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 99% 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 ~65 days

Recently: every ~228 days

Total

32

Last Release

1067d ago

Major Versions

2.4.3 → 4.0.02022-08-10

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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