Using BoltCMS to Build a Small Business Website

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As the web continues to mature and the demand for the efficiency of content delivery increases, more and more slim and trim CMSs are coming into the fray. Developers (front-end and back-end) are branching away from the heavy-hitters like WordPress and Drupal, and into the likes of more streamlined, tailor-made solutions. Bolt CMS is one of these CMSs, and prides itself on being a dream for designers, developers, and content editors alike.

Bolt CMS Logo

On the front-end side of things, Bolt uses the increasingly popular Twig templating language, allowing front-end devs to quickly and neatly generate templates the way they want, and how they want. On the back-end side of things, custom types and fields give us the freedom to organise things the way we want. Bolt is also built upon Silex with Symfony components, making it stable, powerful, open source, and free. Twig, Silex, and Symfony are all under the Sensio Labs umbrella, so you’re guaranteed one will never leave the other in the dust. It’s a great combination!

Bolt has a really nicely laid out documentation on their site, as well as a Stack Overflow tag with an increasing number of posts. Other ways to raise points or get support include the GitHub issue tracker. Read up on the community page for more info.

Building With Bolt

In this article, we’re going to take a look at the following key points which should set us up nicely for building our first project with Bolt:

  1. Requirements, setup and installation
  2. Main configuration and theme set up
  3. Splitting up files into templates
  4. Introducing and creating content types
  5. Retrieving content from database records

From now on, I recommend you keep the docs open in your browser, because we’ll reference it a lot. Alright, let’s dig in!

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