A friendly and powerful open source CMS with an API that is a joy to use at any scale.

ProcessWire is a free content management system (CMS) and framework (CMF) built to save you time and work the way you do. With all custom fields, a secure foundation, proven scalability and performance, ProcessWire connects all of your content seamlessly, making your job fast, easy and fun. More

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Building websites with a CMS has never been more simple and fun

// Render your site’s primary navigation
echo $pages->get('/')->children->each('<li><a href={url}>{title}</a>');
// Find buildings: built before 1950, 10+ floors, sort by height
$pages->find('template=building, year<1950, floors>=10, sort=height');
// Output field “headline” when present or “title” if not
echo '<h1>' . $page->get('headline|title') . '</h1>';
// Get “email” field from /contact/ page and use it in link
<a href='mailto:<?= $pages->get('/contact/')->email ?>'>Email</a>
// Output first “images” field item on page at 90px width
<img src='<?= $page->images->first->width(90)->url ?>'>
// Set “headline” field value on page and save to database
$page->setAndSave('headline', 'Hello world');

Every bit of content in your site is never more than 1-line of code away. It doesn’t matter how large or small your site is, with ProcessWire all your content is connected, making it fast and easy to find, and incredibly simple to access, output and manipulate.

All fields in ProcessWire are custom fields that you easily define and edit in the admin. You can create as many of them as you want, and of any type. You can even bundle them in repeatable groups called Repeater fields. ProcessWire is built to adapt to your content needs.

Every field has a type and there are dozens of different types. It’s all here—text, rich text, numbers, files, images, multi-language, dates, page references, custom repeatable groups, and on and on… plus you can easily add more, since they are plugins/modules!

I just love the easy and intuitive ProcessWire API. ProcessWire rocks!” —Jens Martsch, Web developer

Clients love ProcessWire

“The end client and designer love the ease at which they can update the website. Training beyond how to log in wasn’t even necessary since ProcessWire’s default interface is straightforward.” —Jonathan Lahijani

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“Yesterday I sent the client a short documentation for their ProcessWire-powered website. Today all features already used with no questions. #cmsdoneright—Marc Hinse, Web designer/developer

ProcessWire Showcase

  • SPAIN arts & culture

    SPAIN arts & culture

    www.spainculture.us

    Jacques Maes (Arqyestudio)

    The official website for the promotion of Spain's arts and culture in the United States. SPAIN arts & culture features the most cutting-edge works of international renowned Spanish artists in fields such as design, urban culture, architecture…

  • Velvetyne

    Velvetyne

    velvetyne.fr

    Velvetyne

    Velvetyne is an association and collective dedicated to researching and disseminating typography and typeface creation. Our efforts manifest through collective creation workshops, public engagements, and the promotion of open, playful tools that…

  • Leonkoro Quartet

    Leonkoro Quartet

    leonkoroquartet.com

    Timo Hausmann

    Mobile-first musician portfolio with event calendar. ProcessWire acts as a headless CMS, providing data through a simple custom JSON API. Frontend is a SPA built with Svelte.

  • Trivium Art History

    Trivium Art History

    arthistoryproject.com

    RAWWAR

    Trivium Art History is platform for telling the violent, sexy stories of the inspiration, motivation, and politics behind human creativity.

  • 50 Jahre Spurensuche

    50 Jahre Spurensuche

    50-jahre-spurensuche.de

    Basics09 & Neue Rituale

    For the 50th anniversary of the Federal President's History Competition, we developed a microsite that presents outstanding contributions, people and backgrounds from 50 years of the competition. The website was designed by Basics09 and the basic…

  • Polish Volleyball Team

    Polish Volleyball Team

    chemik-police.com

    vxda

    Beautiful website for the Polish volleyball team, powered by ProcessWire.

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    “I am currently managing a ProcessWire site with 2 million+ pages. It’s admirably fast, and much, much faster than any other CMS we tested.” —Nickie, Web developer

    ProcessWire Blog

    New ProcessWire admin redesign

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    When you upgrade to ProcessWire 3.0.248 or newer (currently the dev branch), you’ll immediately notice something new and beautiful… More 

    ProcessWire 3.0.244 new main/master version

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    ProcessWire 3.0.244 is our newest main/master/stable version. It's been more than a year in the making and is packed with tons of new features, issue fixes, optimizations and more. This post covers all the details. More 

    Custom Fields Module

    This week we look at a new ProFields module named Custom Fields. This module provides a way to rapidly build out ProcessWire fields that contain any number of subfields/properties within them. More 

    “We were really happy to build our new portfolio website on ProcessWire! We wanted something that gave us plenty of control on the back-end, without any bloat on the front end - just a nice, easy to access API for all our content that left us free to design and build however we liked.” —Castus, web design agency in Sheffield, UK

    ProcessWire News & Community

    Latest news

    • ProcessWire Weekly #578
      The 578th issue of ProcessWire Weekly brings in all the latest news from the ProcessWire community. Modules, sites, and more. Read on!
      Weekly.pw / 7 June 2025
    • New ProcessWire admin redesign
      When you upgrade to ProcessWire 3.0.248 or newer (currently the dev branch), you’ll immediately notice something new and beautiful…
      Blog / 9 May 2025
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    “…building with ProcessWire was a breeze, I really love all the flexibility the system provides. I can’t imagine using any other CMS in the future.” —Thomas Aull