Squidex - an OpenSource Headless CMS, a CMS with an API

how modern companies manage their content

You don't need another system for your content. You need it on a single place. Centralized, structured and with seamless integrations to other systems. Available from everywhere and for all digital platforms, such as Apps, websites and server applications.

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Apps

Apps are like projects and hold all your content to be consumed by web apps, mobile apps and other services.

Schemas

Define the structure of your content with schemas. Use different fields, editors and validation rules for a great editorial experience.

Content

Manage your content directly within the Squidex Management UI using state of the art content editors.

Localization

Localize your content and setup as many languages as you want. Define optional languages when you enter new markets.

Workflows

Support your editor team with custom workflows to ensure that only high-quality content gets delivered.

Rules

Create rules to react to system events and publish your content to other systems or to notify content editors.

HTTP Endpoints

Access the content using the GraphQl or REST endpoint and choose the technology stack of your choice.

Core Features

We know, that there are dozens of headless CMS on the market.
But Squidex is Open Source and unique. Here is why:

Content Versioning

All changes in Squidex are handled by a versioning system. This makes it possible to compare different versions of your content and to roll back to a previous version. It also provides the audit log, so that you can see who did what and when.

Seamless Integrations

Every action creates an event. Therefore you can trigger an external system when an asset is uploaded or a content is changed and also post your blog to Medium or create a tweet automatically.

Workflow System

We know that companies can have very complicated rules who can create, review or publish content. With our compelling workflow system you can implement your rules in Squidex.

Powerful API

Everything in Squidex can be queried and altered using the powerful REST api. This allows a seamless integration to Continuous integration and automation of schema and content creation. The API is built on standards like OpenAPI and OpenId Connect and can be consumed from all programming languages.

GraphQL Endpoint

Query just the data you need from the GraphQL endpoint and get updates pushed to your website or mobile application using GraphQL subscriptions.

Quick and easy to host

You can host Squidex on any platform. It is available as a docker image or as binaries for all operation systems and can be easily added to your cloud setup. We provide ready to use Helm charts for your kubernetes cluster.

Built for performance

Squidex is based on .NET core 7, one of the fastest web frameworks according to TechPower and developed to provide great performance. It can handle 100.000 of content items with easy.

Administration Tools

The command line interface (CLI) provides function to synchronize your data and settings between instance or to import and export content items and assets.

Integrated Backup and Recover

The backup system and restore feature is directly integrated into Squidex. Therefore you can easily move from On-Premise the our Cloud offering and backr.

What Users say about Squidex

Open Source

Squidex is 100% open source software, built by passionated developers. With a high quality code base, and a welcoming community, it is easy to extend or tweak Squidex and therefore also used by large corporations with high standards around maintanbility, security and availability.

Checkout the source at Github

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Squidex 7.1 Released: GraphQL Subscriptions and Translation Status

I am happy to share a couple of new and improved features and give you some guideline how to leverage them.

Tuesday Oct 04
Squidex 7.0 Release Candidate 3 released

The hopefully last release candidate for 7.0 has been released and this is a good moment to introduce the new changes of this major version. This version has been battle tested with existing databases and a lot of new API tests that also covers areas of the product that have not been tested automatically yet.

Tuesday Aug 16
New Feature: Content Embedding

A new feature has just been landed that allows content embedding into text fields such as markdown or rich-text.

Monday May 23
Notifo is OpenSource now

Notifo is a general purpose notification framework. It has been developed for Squidex to be able to subscribe to changes for a single content item or schema, contributors or whatever you are interested in and to get push notifications when something changes. It is Open Source and available for everybody now.

Saturday Mar 12