Key Features • How To Use • How To Contribute • Credits • License
## Key Features
Bolt is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running modern websites.
It's built on PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, Twig, API-Platform and more. Bolt can be used as a traditional
CMS or headless/decoupled. It is fully multilingual, and extensible using custom code in your projects,
or through extensions installed from the Composer ecosystem.
* **Built with Symfony**: fully extensible with Symfony 5 extensions
* **YAML configuration**: Adding new types of pages, new fields, new languages, etc. is all done in neat YAML.
* **Built-in internationalisation** and Editor available in 15 languages.
* **Out-of-the-box API**: RESTful and GraphQL
* **Dummy content** to test your site in development or show it to a client
* **Best rich content editors** Fully licensed Redactor and Article fields to fit any content, for free.
## How To Use
To create a new Bolt Project, check out the instructions in Bolt's
[distribution repository](https://github.com/bolt/project/).
For **development** of Bolt CMS itself, check out the [setup guide](./SETUP.md)
## How To Contribute
There are multiple ways to help the Bolt project going forward:
* Star this repository
* Learn how to [spread the word](https://docs.bolt.cm/other/contributing)
* Help by writing and [contributing code or documentation](https://docs.bolt.cm/other/contributing)
* [Sponsor Bob](https://github.com/sponsors/bobdenotter): Bolt's creator and chief developer
## Credits
The ongoing Bolt development takes place under the care of:
- [Two Kings - Artisinal Web Development](https://www.twokings.nl/)
## License
MIT
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