Vvveb CMS is an open source, AGPL-3.0 licensed content management system built in PHP that pairs a drag-and-drop page builder with blogging and ecommerce features, made for site owners, agencies and developers who want to build and run websites, blogs or online stores without hand-coding pages.

What it is

Vvveb CMS is a PHP content management system that lives in the traditional LAMP-style hosting ecosystem, requiring PHP 7.4 or newer (8.3 recommended) alongside MySQL 5.7+, MariaDB 10.2+, SQLite or PostgreSQL. It ships as a complete site-building stack: a visual drag-and-drop page builder, a blog engine, and an ecommerce module with products, variants and checkout. It is hybrid by design, working both as a traditional server-rendered CMS and as a headless CMS that exposes content over GraphQL and REST APIs. Themes and plugins install from a marketplace directly inside the admin dashboard, and the entire thing is packaged so that only a single PHP file is exposed to the public web.

The concrete problem it solves is fragmentation. Anyone building a small site, a blog and a shop normally ends up maintaining separate installations, or hand-writing HTML templates and then bolting a store onto a blog. Vvveb CMS replaces that with one admin, one page builder and one content model covering posts, custom posts, products and custom products, all editable through reusable custom fields. It also removes the setup step: installation runs without a separate configuration wizard, and the low resource footprint is intended to serve hundreds of requests per second on free shared hosting, with caching bringing it close to static-site speed.

Key capabilities

• Drag-and-drop page builder reached through /admin/?module=/editor/editor, with templates such as index.html edited visually.
• Hybrid delivery: same content served as a traditional CMS or headless via GraphQL and REST API.
• Ecommerce module covering one page checkout, subscriptions, digital assets, vouchers, coupons, product options, attributes, variants, reviews and product Q&A.
• Flexible content modelling with custom fields, custom posts and custom products.
• Themes and plugins marketplace with one-click install from the admin dashboard.
• Multi-site support, localization, multi-language content, revisions, media management and multi-user access with advanced role permissions.
• Bundled advanced SEO plugin with schema, open graph and hreflang support and sitemaps, plus a contact forms plugin with storage and email.

Who uses it and how

• Small businesses and bloggers running a single combined site, store and blog on cheap shared hosting, where hundreds of requests per second must fit inside tight resource limits.
• Agencies managing several client properties from one installation using multi-site support and per-role permissions.
• Store owners selling physical goods, subscriptions or digital assets, using one page checkout, coupons and product variants.
• Development teams using the headless mode, feeding a separate front end through GraphQL or REST while editors keep using the visual builder.
• Editors and non-technical staff doing day-to-day publishing through revisions, media management and the contact forms plugin.

Getting started

Install from the official site at vvveb.com and run the bundled installer on a PHP 7.4+ host with MySQL 5.7+, MariaDB 10.2+, SQLite or PostgreSQL, remembering that only one PHP file is exposed publicly. The README documents no Composer package name, Docker image or compose file, so deployment means the documented PHP installation path.

How it compares

No list of paid products this project replaces is provided, and the facts name no comparable tools. It stands alone in this registry as the only entry in this set.

When to use it — and when not to

A self-hoster must operate a PHP runtime with the required extensions (mysqli or sqlite3 or pgsql, xml, pcre, zip, dom, curl, gettext, gd or imagick), a supported database, and mail delivery for the contact forms plugin. The AGPL-3.0 licence is a strong copyleft, which matters if the goal is redistributing a modified closed-source product, and the repository carries 173 open issues with no released version numbers visible in the README. Teams that want a managed SaaS, a non-PHP stack, or a vendor-held upgrade path should look elsewhere.

#git 2.13+ 
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/givanz/Vvveb

# older git versions 
git clone --recursive https://github.com/givanz/Vvveb

git pull --recurse-submodules
git submodule update --recursive --remote

./build.sh

php cli.php install module=index host=127.0.0.1 user=root password=1234 database=vvveb admin[email][email protected] admin[password]=admin engine=mysqli