PluXml

PluXml is a lightweight content management system that stores all content in XML files rather than a database, aimed at blogs and small websites. It provides a user-friendly backoffice, multi-user roles, themes and plugins to extend functionality while remaining portable and easy to deploy.

Key Features

• Flat-file storage: content, configuration and metadata are stored in XML files (no database required)
• Multi-user backoffice with permission levels for collaborative editing
• Article, page, category, tag and archive management with RSS feeds
• Built-in comments management and moderation tools
• Media manager for images and documents with basic image resizing (GD required)
• Customizable themes and plugin system to extend features
• URL rewriting support for clean URLs (requires webserver rewrite support)
• Translations available in multiple languages

Use Cases

• Personal or family blogs that need a simple, low-maintenance CMS
• Small business brochure sites or microsites with basic content and media
• Portable or offline sites that must be moved or served from removable storage

Limitations and Considerations

• Not intended for very large sites: flat-file storage can slow with very large numbers of entries or heavy concurrent writes
• Limited advanced query, reporting, and scaling features compared to database-backed CMS platforms
• PHP version and extension constraints: specific PHP versions and PHP GD/XML extensions are required; URL rewriting depends on webserver configuration

PluXml is suitable when simplicity, portability and minimal hosting requirements are priorities. It provides a compact CMS feature set for blogs and small sites while remaining extensible via themes and plugins.