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Craft vs Kirby CMS: What are the differences?
What is Craft? A CMS built to do one thing and do it well: manage content. Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.
What is Kirby CMS? A file-based CMS with a beautiful web interface. It is a file-based CMS, you can version control all content with Git or any other VCS. Deployments, backups and synchronization of multiple stages are a breeze. Multi-language support is baked right into the core, so you don’t depend on plugins or frameworks to translate your site.
Craft and Kirby CMS belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Craft are:
- Relations
- Matrix
- Assets
On the other hand, Kirby CMS provides the following key features:
- High-performance PHP template engine
- Powerful chainable PHP API
- Drag & Drop installation via FTP
Pros of Craft
- Quick bespoke CMS8
- Easy to use CMS7
- Clean slate approach to templating6
- Has it's own StackExcange2
- Clean templating markup (twig)2
- Great support2
- Free licence available for single user account version2
Pros of Kirby CMS
- Most flexible CMS5
- Great, helpful community4
- No database4
- Good documentation3
- Stunning support3
- Friendly company2
