PiranhaCMS/piranha.core

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Piranha CMS is a lightweight, decoupled, open-source content management system for .NET 8 built on ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. It can be used as an integrated CMS with Razor Pages/MVC or as a headless content API, with a Vue.js-based admin panel for editors.

Use cases

• build a website with a CMS on ASP.NET Core
• add a headless CMS API to serve content to apps
• set up a blog or content site in .NET
• give content editors a friendly admin panel with block editing
• manage a media library with image scaling and cropping
• create a small to medium .NET web application with content management

When to choose

• you're building on .NET/ASP.NET Core and want a lightweight, extensible CMS
• you need both integrated rendering and headless API delivery from one platform
• editor experience and a clean admin UI are priorities
• you want a MIT-licensed, package-based CMS with project templates

When to avoid

• you need an enterprise CMS with heavy out-of-the-box marketing features
• your stack is not .NET
• you require a large plugin/marketplace ecosystem
• you need a fully no-code hosted solution

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-framework templating api-framework image-processing cms web-development backend self-hosted cross-platform dotnet windows cms headless-cms asp-net-core entity-framework-core razor-pages content-management admin-panel decoupled-architecture web-server linux macos docker

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