Radiant – no-fluff content management system

Last Updated on July 12, 2021

Radiant is billed as a no-fluff, fairly friendly, easy to use and customize open source Content Management System (CMS). It is similar to Textpattern or MovableType, but is a general purpose content management system (not just a blogging engine).

Radiant is limited to basic functionality for a CMS. The intended users are small groups or teams and therefore the software leaves room for extensions. All of the content is stored inside a database (either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite).

Radiant depends, like every Ruby on Rails application, on the installed adapters for the database.

Features include:

• An elegant user interface.
• Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging language.
• Extension/plugin system.
• Simple user management and permissions.
• Simple admin interface centering around three key components: pages, snippets and layouts.
• Support for Markdown and Textile as well as traditional HTML.
• Custom text filters.
• Intelligent page caching which expires pages every 5 minutes.
• Built using Ruby on Rails.

Website: github.com/radiant/radiant
Support: GitHub
Developer: John W. Long
License: MIT

Radiant is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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