CMSflows

CMSflows is a web-based content management system designed to support complex publishing workflows and API-first content delivery. It emphasizes modularity and extensibility, enabling teams to tailor content processes and publishing pipelines to their organizational needs. The platform supports headless delivery via REST and GraphQL, allowing content to be consumed by websites, apps, and other services.

Key features include a workflow engine with customizable stages (such as draft, in-review, approved, and published), role-based access control, content versioning and auditing, content scheduling, and a rich media library. It provides multilingual and localization support, templating and theming capabilities, and a plugin or extension system to integrate third-party services such as search, analytics, and e-commerce tools.

Architecture and deployment: CMSflows uses a decoupled backend and frontend, with the backend handling content modeling, workflow rules, and storage, and the frontend consuming content via APIs. It commonly uses a relational database and supports containerized deployment via Docker. The platform includes an event-driven notification system, webhooks, and an API gateway for scalability.

Development and ecosystem: The project originated in the early 2020s and has grown through an open-source community and commercial offerings around hosting, enterprise features, and managed services. Community contributors provide connectors for popular platforms and integrations with static site generators and headless frontends.

Use cases: CMSflows is used by editorial teams, marketing departments, and digital agencies that require structured workflows, approval gates, and multi-channel publishing. It is suitable for newsrooms, corporate sites, product catalogs, and multilingual sites that need controlled release cycles and audit trails.