Vvveb Overview
Vvveb is an open-source CMS designed for the modern web. It brings together visual editing, content management, and ecommerce in a single, cohesive platform. Its goal is to remove the traditional barriers between design, development, and publishing by offering a clean interface, powerful tools, and full extensibility.
Vvveb includes a drag-and-drop page builder that works on any page or template, allowing users to visually edit layouts, content blocks, and components without touching code.
Advanced publishing tools, ecommerce capabilities, and a flexible custom fields system make it suitable for everything from simple websites to complex online stores.
The CMS also includes an integrated marketplace for plugins and themes, enabling one-click installation of new features or designs.
This makes it easy to extend functionality, integrate external services, or adapt the system to specialized use cases.
The mission behind Vvveb is to empower anyone, designers, developers, and non-technical users, to build professional websites and ecommerce stores using a visual interface, while keeping the platform free, open, and extensible.
Installation
Installing Vvveb is intentionally simple.
The process requires only a standard PHP hosting environment and a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite).
- Download the latest Vvveb release.
- Unzip the archive.
- Upload the files to your server.
- Visit your website in a browser and follow the installation steps.
The installer guides you through database configuration, admin account creation, and initial setup. A complete installation typically takes only a few minutes.
More detailed instructions and environment requirements are available in the installation guide.
First steps after installation
Once the installation is complete, continue with the initial configuration guide to set your site name and description, choose a theme, enable languages and currencies, and prepare your site for content.
Documentation map
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| Page builder | Visual editing with sections, components and blocks |
| Posts & pages | Creating and managing blog posts, pages, categories and tags |
| Products | Managing products, options, attributes and inventory |
| Orders | Processing orders, returns, coupons and subscriptions |
| Themes | Installing themes, fonts and using the theme code editor |
| Plugins | Installing and configuring plugins from the marketplace |
| Custom fields | Extending posts and products with custom fields |
| Media | Media library management |
| Sites | Multi-site management |
| Users | Site users and customers |
| Admin users | Administrator accounts and roles |
| Tools | Backup, import/export, cache and updates |