README

Pubvana CMS

Pubvana is a flexible, full-featured, shared-host friendly CMS (Content Management System) for personal blogs, small to medium business websites, company intranets and more. v3 offers the flexibility of a CMF (Content Management Framework) to build your own custom plugins faster than starting from scratch. Version 3 has a new administration panel, plugin extensions, faster internals, and more features than you'd expect in a free, open source CMS.

v3

v2

v1 (Includes Open-Blog and Open-Blog3)

Installation

See Install

Features

• Publishing with drafts, scheduling, revisions, categories, tags, and WYSIWYG editing (Jodit)
• RSS/Atom feeds, media library with image processing, video posters, embeds
• Nested moderated comments with captcha and sanitization
• AI assistant with fact-checking workflow
• Content blocks in regions with drag-and-drop placement and per-block on/off toggles
• Vision templates for public pages (no PHP execution)
• Theme system with per-theme options
• Nested navigation menus, plugin system with enable/disable
• Admin dashboard with plugin cards
• Role-based access control (Shield), user bans, forced password resets
• Optional email 2FA and email activation
• Activity log audit trail, site health checks, public-side flash messages
• SMTP email with encrypted credentials, cron scheduler
• Full-site backup and restore, core update flow
• Marketplace, digital store with products, orders, and payment webhooks
• Trust Service: plugin, theme, and release safety from the Pubvana trust service, shown as admin trust badges
• Stand-alone JSON API for integrations and addon services
• Security headers, CSRF protection, rate-limited login
• Search across content types, SEO (sitemap, schema, robots, Open Graph)
• Redirect manager with 404 tracking and broken-link scanning
• Form builder, server-side analytics with daily rollups
• Public user profiles, site-wide social links, dark mode admin UI

Project Structure

pubvana/
  app/                  - Core, like Admin, necessary services, etc
    config/             - Bootstrap, routes, services, env handling
    Controllers/        - Admin, Public, and API controllers
    Database/           - Core migrations and seeds
    Models/             - Core models
    Services/           - ExtensionRegistry, PluginLoader, PluginView, etc.
    Views/admin/        - Admin templates (.php)
  plugins/              - Extend functionality
  themes/               - Theme folders with Vision templates
  vendor/               - software from others we use
  writable/             - Automated writing to files from the site

Stack

Security

Reporting a Vulnerability

See Security Report at GitHub Security Advisories to report them privately.

Production Hardening

See HARDENING.md for the production checklist (env, HTTPS, headers, auth, logging, backups).

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

Use the Issues Tracker.

Links

pubvanacms.com

License

MIT. LICENSE

Contributors

• Enliven Applications

• Your Name Here

• FlightPHP: While the good folks over at flightPHP haven't contributed code to this project directly, they have provided the basis of the project with core, active record and others. Consider using FlightPHP for your next project!

Legacy

• Orginally brought to github by Kami as Open Blog around 2010 built on Codeigniter v(2-ish).
• Dec. 2016 Kami released Open Blog to Enlivenapp along with domains.
• Enlivenapp brought about Open Blog 3 updated with Codeigniter3 and more functionality.
• Mar 2018 some copyright considerations caused the renaming of Open Blog to Pubvana and was release under Enlivenapp/pubvana built on Codeigniter4 from Feb 2026 until Aug of 2026.
• Aug 2026 Pubvana was moved to it's own organisation(github) where Pubvana v3 replaced Codeigniter with FlightPHP with updated and modern coding style, security, and a larger feature set. This is a completely different codebase and is not backwards compatable to previous versions of Pubvana and Open Blog.