Kirby 3.0 - The file-based content management sytem
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Some of the highlights in Kirby 3:
- Fully customizable, Vue-based admin interface
- Headless CMS option to use Kirby with your SPA, mobile applications or static site generators.
- Generate pages from any data source, such as databases, APIs, JSON files or anything else that's parseable by PHP.
- Brand new plugin system
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I've started using Kirby 2 two years ago for a non-profit organisation and instantly fell in love with it. Since that I've learned a lot through Kirby's detailed documentation and its awesome community. Nowadays I'm building all my clients websites with Kirby.
Pros:The possibility to adapt Kirby to your needs Beginner friendly The new Vue based panel The community
Cons:No cons for me. Sorry!
erxes Inc
I‘m a Kirby user since v1, never looked back
Pros:Simplicity and great performance
Cons:Hm, hard to tell, I‘m really happy with it. The docs are nicely done, but they could be more detailed
Our agency uses Kirby for almost every website that goes on shared hostings. Kirby 3 puts the thing on a whole new level with the (more) customizable panel and the ability to include custom data sources. Security: we never had a Kirby powered website hacked. Power: as a developer you can control all aspects of your website. Simplicity: you don't have to control all aspects. Structured content: no "blog entries with meta fields". You save "articles", "art pieces", "bananas", "whatevers". All have the properties you decide. Deployment: drag a folder into filezilla. Composer and git workflows are supported too. Performance: getkirby.com (runs on Kirby): TTFB is ~20ms. That's what you get as ping in FPS games. Flexibility: simple websites, large websites, PWAs. with or without databases. headless CMS or any templating engine in PHP. Friendly, healthy, community: lots of people are willing to help you out on the forum. You need to have a minimum of coding experience: it's not enough to just click on stuff to create your website. It's not wordpress, wix or squarespace.
Pros:- Security - Power - Simplicity - Structured content - Deployment - Performance - Flexibility - Community
Cons:- Developer experience required
Kirby has increasingly become our CMS of choice, due to its flexibility, gentle learning curve, incredible speed, and outstanding community. If you haven't tried it, you're missing out.
Pros:- Amazingly flexible and full-featured - 'Flat-File' means FAST - plays nicely with CDNs - Secure and stable - Great docs, awesome community
Cons:- because it is such a pleasure to use, it will 'spoil' you, and make you less likely to use other CMSs
Product Hunt
I've been using Kirby 2 for well over a year on projects big and small. I've developed plugins for it too, the most powerful one of which allows you to translate your content via the popular TMS, Memsource. Kirby is that flexible, yes. You can make it work the way you need it to. I can't wait to get into Kirby 3!
Pros:- Active community - Nested structured fields - Vue running the admin panel - Flexible - Easy to understand - Well documented
Cons:- When I type "kirby" in Google, the first result is the video game character