# anchorcms/anchor-cms

A lightweight blog CMS for PHP

Repository: https://github.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/anchor-cms
Homepage: http://anchorcms.com/
Language: PHP
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: anchor, anchor-cms, php, cms, blog, framework, content-management
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-05-19T13:31:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5601, "days_push": 2297, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3297, forks 560 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:55.613303+00:00)

## What it is
Anchor CMS is a super-simple, lightweight blog CMS written in PHP, designed to let users write and publish posts with minimal overhead. The project has been officially archived and is no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- run a simple self-hosted blog
- lightweight CMS for personal writing
- publish blog posts with custom per-post styles
- simple content management without heavy plugins
- host a blog on shared PHP hosting

## When to choose
- you need a minimal PHP blog engine and accept unmaintained software
- you want a very simple CMS with custom per-post styling
- you're studying a small legacy PHP CMS codebase

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready or security-patched CMS
- you require modern PHP versions or active community support
- you need features like headless APIs, plugins, or multi-user workflows

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, templating, self-hosted
- domain: cms, web-development
- platform: php, self-hosted
- tags: blog-engine, content-management, lightweight-cms, unmaintained, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- anchorcms/anchor-cms (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:55.613303+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:42:57.771853+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/anchorcms/anchor-cms (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:55.613303+00:00, sha 20a1dcc48239)
  - homepage: http://anchorcms.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:35:33.050760+00:00, sha 87d1116fc96f)
  - site_page: http://anchorcms.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:35:33.059722+00:00, sha 4c9baf780ca4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.