AsomeCMS — A modern self-hosted CMS for small business websites

Build a fast, professional website without learning to code. AsomeCMS gives you a polished public site, a friendly admin panel, and everything you need to publish pages, run a blog, collect leads, and look good doing it — all on your own hosting.

Try it before you buy

Open https://demo.asomecms.com/ and sign in at /admin/login with [email protected] / demo123. 

Build pages without writing HTML

8 ready-made block types out of the box:

• Content — rich text with headings, lists, quotes, images
• Cards — feature highlights with icons
• Images — single image or gallery with lightbox
• CTA — call-to-action banners with buttons
• FAQ — accordion-style frequently asked questions
• Pricing — clean pricing tables with "popular" badges
• Form — embed any custom form you've built into a page
• Separator — visual breaks between sections

Run a blog, collect leads, manage media

• Blog/news — modern Editor.js editor, drafts, scheduled posts, cover images, per-post SEO overrides.
• Forms — built-in contact form plus a custom form builder (six field types) with a submissions inbox in the admin.
• Media library — drag-and-drop uploads, automatic WebP conversion, alt text and captions, search.

Look good on Google and social media

• Per-page meta titles and descriptions
• Auto-generated Open Graph images for every page (no design work needed)
• Sitemap.xml and robots.txt out of the box
• Clean, slug-based hierarchical URLs

Brand it as your own

Upload your logo (light and dark), set a favicon, customize site name, footer, and meta tags from the admin panel. Light/dark mode toggle is built in.

Easy installation — no command line needed

1. Upload the ZIP to your server.
2. Open your-site.com/install in the browser.
3. Follow the 4-step wizard: requirements → database → admin user → done.

Server requirements

• PHP 8.2+ (with standard extensions)
• MariaDB 10.11+ or MySQL 8+
• Apache or Nginx
• ~50 MB disk space (excluding your media)

If you can run WordPress, you can run AsomeCMS.

Page builder

• Visual builder with split-view live iframe preview.
• 8 block types — content (Editor.js), cards, image gallery, CTA banner, FAQ accordion, pricing table, custom form embed, separator.
• Hierarchical pages with parent/child structure, drag-and-drop ordering, navbar/footer visibility toggles, draft preview.
• News/blog with publish/draft workflow, per-author attribution, paginated index, full Editor.js content.

Forms and engagement

• Form builder — six field types (text, email, textarea, select, checkbox, radio), per-form notification routing, submissions inbox.
• Contact form with honeypot, time-trap, and per-IP rate limiting.
• Captcha — Cloudflare Turnstile or Google reCAPTCHA v3, secret keys encrypted at rest.

Media

• Image library with automatic WebP conversion, alt text and captions, search.
• Lightbox with keyboard navigation and swipe gestures.
• Auto-generated OG images per page with optional logo watermark.
• Sized image variants for responsive use.

SEO

• Per-page meta title, description, and custom OG image overrides.
• XML sitemap (pages + news) at /sitemap.xml and robots.txt.
• Friendly hierarchical URLs that match your page tree.

Look and feel

• Light / dark / auto theme respecting prefers-color-scheme.
• Five built-in accent palettes — blue, amber, forest, rose, slate.
• Bootstrap 5 + Manrope, customizable from the admin without touching code.

• PHP 8.2, 8.3, or 8.4 with these extensions: ctype, dom, gd (with WebP support), iconv, json, mbstring, pdo, pdo_mysql, sodium, xml, zip.
• Database — MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.11+.
• Web server — Apache or Nginx. The web installer also works behind the built-in PHP server for local testing.
• A modern browser for the admin (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge — all current versions).

The install wizard's first step verifies every PHP extension is present before it lets you proceed, so a missing extension is caught at install time, not later as a runtime crash.

After purchase

1. Download the asomecms-xxx.zip archive from your Codester purchase page.
2. Let us know in DM your domain so we issue you a license key
3. Extract the archive on your local machine.
4. Upload the extracted contents to your web server's document root via FTP, SFTP, or your hosting control panel's file manager.
5. Point your web server's document root at the public/ subdirectory. On most shared hosts this is the default; for Apache/Nginx setups, confirm DocumentRoot (Apache) or root (Nginx) ends with /public.
6. Open your domain in a browser. The web installer takes over automatically on the first visit.

Web installer (3 steps)

1. Requirements check — confirms your PHP version and extensions.
2. Database connection — fill in your MySQL/MariaDB credentials. The installer creates the schema for you.
3. Admin user — set the email and password for your first admin account.

When you click Finish on step 3, the installer writes the configuration files, runs the database migrations, creates a starter Home and About page, and redirects you to the login screen.