Easy

Easy to install: just a single command from the console or a confortable web interface. Easy to use thanks to an improved Ajax interface!

Web design

Free to design your website as you want without any limitation on page structure, because AlphaLemon CMS is able to work with any type of design.

Extensible

Creating and adding new themes or blocks is as easy as changing the CMS behavior, due to a cohesive and robust API interface.

Quality

A strong and completed automated test suite assures the reliability and the quality of each release of AlphaLemon CMS.

AlphaLemon CMS Interface

AlphaLemon CMS interface has been designed to be as less obtrusive as possible. The toolbar is hidden and placed on top, while the control commands are on the left.

The toolbar

The toolbar, placed on top of the page, when it is opened.

Contents management

Editable contents are highlighted. To edit the content, just click into the content area.

Html contents

Html contents are edited inline.

Product content

This content inherits from thumbnails list content. To add a new product just click the blue button.

Product bundle

A new product has been added.

Combined contents

A product content is made by three different blocks: an image, an html content and a button, each editable on its own. Here the image block is edited.

Editing the image

Images are chosen using the integrated media library.

Included image

The image has been edited. You can change the Title and Alt attributes too.

Thumbnail width

The thumbnail width is selected.

Thumbnail width changed

The thumbnail width has been changed

Editing the button

We are editing the button

Button edited

The button has been edited.

The menu to add new blocks

A new block is added from this menu.

Editing a split dropdown button

The interface to edit a split button. You can change the buttons attributes, the button items, add a divider and more.

The split dropdown button edited

The split dropdown button has been edited

Pages manager interface

The pages manager interface let you add, edit or manage the website pages ant their attributes. Pages can be added to a sitemap.

Languages manager interface

The languages manager interface let you add, edit or manage the website languages.

Themes manager interface

The themes manager interface shows you the active theme and to activate a new one.

Users interface

The users manager interface let you add, edit and delete a user. Each user has a role which grants different rights on the website.

Roles interface

The roles manager interface let you add, edit and delete a role.

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News

AlphaLemon CMS meets Twitter Bootstrap from 1.1 release.

Watch how the new interface works: now everything is editable inline from html content to Twitter Bootstrap components.

There are several Twitter Bootstrap components available, like buttons, dropdowns, navbars, carousel, thumbnails, labels, badges and many other will be implemented.

Download now the Beta 4 and try it on your own.

Since this version, AlphaLemon CMS is quite stable and can be used in production.

AlphaLemon CMS

AlphaLemon CMS has been designed to offer a Content Management System as easy and powerful as possibile to manage a website.

This application is made to let anyone, without any programming skill, to build their own site with a quick learning curve, and also to give developers a robust and flexible framework to build awesome web applications and distributable extensions for AlphaLemon CMS

AlphaLemon CMS most important features are:

	Easy to configure		Extensible on steroids
	Edit contents in place		Free template design
	Unlimited pages		Server-side contents
	Seo friendly		Automated tests suite
	Multi languages		Decoupled
	Multi users environment		Interactive guide

AlphaLemon CMS is built on top of Symfony2 Framework and powered by Propel Orm.

It takes advantage of the latest Open Source technologies, like JQuery for the client side interface, Twig as template engine, Composer for packages dependencies and Git for code versioning.

See it in action!

A set of tutorial screencasts to see and learn how AlphaLemon CMS works.

Install AlphaLemon CMS

A screencast that shows the AlphaLemon CMS installation procedure.
Interactive Guide

A screencast that shows how the AlphaLemon CMS interactive guide works.
Pages browsing

A screencast that shows how to navigate through website pages.
Assets management

This screencast shows how to manage external assets with AlphaLemon CMS.

Contents management

This screencast shows how to manage website contents with AlphaLemon CMS.

This screencast has been taken on 1.0.x release and it is obsolete. Please watch this screencast to see how contents management will change with next release.
Pages management

This screencast shows how to manage the website pages with AlphaLemon CMS.

This screencast has been taken on 1.0.x release. While the working behavior is the same, the graphic has been changed. See the carousel on this page.
Languages management

This screencast shows how to manage the website languages with AlphaLemon CMS.

This screencast has been taken on 1.0.x release. While the working behavior is the same, the graphic has been changed. See the carousel on this page.
Themes management

This screencast shows how to manage themes with AlphaLemon CMS.

Apps

AlphaLemon CMS can be extended by adding new Themes and Blocks: both of them are called Apps.

An App is a Symfony2 bundle which has some extra configurations, which can be plugged-in and used in seconds.

For example, if you need an images gallery for your website, you only have to create a new App-Block with is own editor: AlphaLemon CMS provides many tools to make this task easy, like app generators, and it preconfigures classes to extend.

Each App can easily be reused in all websites, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel each time.

App-Themes

An App-Theme is a collection of templates which define the design of your website.

To make any html template usable with AlphaLemon CMS is terrifically easy, and there are no limits on the structure of your template.

This website takes advantage of the great 960 grid system and its layout has been freely designed choosing where to put each single element without any structure limitation.

Templates are written in Twig, an awesome template engine that helps to simplify the design of each template, providing several filters, functions, control structures and template inheritance.

App-Blocks

A Block is a small application able to manage a piece of content using a dedicated editor which will then display the content on the page.

AlphaLemon CMS comes with several basic built-in App-Blocks, which are the minimum tools needed to manage a website.

For example the text you are reading is generated by the default AlphaLemon CMS hypertextual block managed by the TinyMCE editor.

You may use this block to manage the text contents on your website but, if you want to use another editor, you simply create a new App-Block and plug-in into AlphaLemon CMS.