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PyroCMS is an open source content management system originally developed by Phil Sturgeon. PyroCMS is a simple, flexible, community driven Content Management System built with the PHP framework CodeIgniter.

History
The CMS was originally developed by Phil Sturgeon in 2008 for various personal and commercial freelance projects and over the course of a few years got to be a very useful system for quickly making simple sites. In 2009 this CMS was released open-source under the name PyroCMS, taken from Phil's forum handle at the time "thepyromaniac". It was welcomed by the community and by 2010 it had an active core development team.

Since those early days PyroCMS has grown rapidly to be translated into more than 22 languages, accepted code from over 120 contributors and had more 43,000 installations since v1.0. Even more recently PyroCMS has evolved into two logical branches: Community (free) and Professional (paid). The Professional edition has two features not found on the Community edition (PyroStreams and Multi-Site Manager) and is also available as a hosted service.

Features
Ease of use and extensibility are two themes at the core of the philosophy behind PyroCMS. Its developers have taken the approach that users of PyroCMS should be able to create simple websites out of the box and 80% of anything more complex. To fill the remaining 20%, PyroCMS can be extended by anyone proficient in PHP and CodeIgniter. In addition, the PyroCMS Add-ons Store also offers a range of third party modules some of which are available free of charge. Key features include:


 * PyroStreams allows you to structure your data in the PyroCMS control panel using field types like text, date/time, images, choice, or relationship (Professional only)
 * Multi-Site Manager allows developers to manage all of their sites from a single interface (Professional only)
 * Simple to create themes
 * A Range of powerful add-ons to extend the base functionality
 * Has automatic SEO built in
 * Simple WYSIWYG editor
 * More technical users can add their own SEO, CSS and JavaScript

Development Status
As of early November 2012, PyroCMS is under active development on GitHub and version 2.2 is imminent. The developers have stated that the core of version 2.3 (due mid-2013) will be based on CodeIgniter 3.0 but its app area will be re-written in Laravel version 4.