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This is the development page for the little flat file content management system "Gravitron", running on — you already guessed it:
This is not production ready yet. Development is live here, so expect a little hickup from time to time. For details see version info.
Think of Gravitron as Gravs very little (and very ugly) brother: It comes with many core features borrowed from its older sibling, but is slimmer and by far not as feature rich.
I love Grav, don't get me wrong — But if you ever wanted to "set up that little low-feature 5-page site before going to sleep in 15 minutes", this might be just the right CMS for you.
Gravitron comes bundled with:
- Twig 3.22.0: The flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP (MIT License)
- Parsedown 1.80: The better Markdown Parser in PHP (MIT License)
- Parsedown Extra 0.8.0 (optional): An extension to Parsedown that adds support for Markdown Extra (MIT License)
- SimpleLightbox 2.13.0 by Andre Rinas: A touch-friendly image lightbox (MIT License)
- The Manrope font (SIL OFL)
I've kept, slimmed down, neutered, pimped, tuned and adopted:
- The pages' folder structure
- Markdown and Twig syntax for pages (at least a most of it...): An existing Grav page file works instantly
- Media file support (images, PDF documents, etc.) in pages
- Theme support: A Grav theme almost™ works out ot the box
What you will miss (or actually not miss), compared to Grav:
- An admin panel
- Mail features
- Modular pages
- Form processing
- Automated CSS/JS pipelining, minifying and asset management: You'll have to minify CSS & JS yourself
- Fancy blogging things like prev/next, ordering and taxonomy filters
- Search functions
- Complex debugging tools
- Complex error handling: A) There are no errors and B) Every hickup is routed to the error page
- Some Twig features
Admit it: After all, how many percent of the complete feature set do you actually use?
Check the current project status or see more detailed features at the showcase.
Version information
- Version: 0.7 alpha
- Codename: Wanking Weasel
- Timestamp: 2025-11-29 10:21:15 CET