falconcms

FalconCMS

Build your application. Not your CMS.
An open-source CMS foundation for Laravel — visual page builder, custom post types,
media, menus, SEO, e-commerce, security, themes, plugins, and a WordPress-like hook system.

Live Demo · Documentation · Website · Changelog

Why FalconCMS

Every Laravel project eventually needs the same building blocks — pages, posts, media, navigation, forms, SEO, users, permissions, custom fields, settings. Building them again for every project takes time away from the product you actually set out to build.

FalconCMS gives you that foundation as a Composer package, running inside your existing Laravel app alongside your own routes, models and service providers. You keep Laravel; you skip rebuilding the CMS.

🚀 Installation

Requirements: PHP 8.3+ · Laravel 13+ · MySQL 5.7+ / MariaDB 10.3+

Add it to an existing Laravel application:

composer require falconcms/falconcms
php artisan falcon:install

falcon:install runs the migrations, publishes assets and the default theme, links storage, and creates your admin user — the credentials are printed in the terminal. Then visit /admin.

📖 Installation guide · Configuration

🛠 Commands Summary

Falcon CMS comes with a set of automated commands to make development easier.

✨ What's in the free core

Everything below is MIT-licensed and needs no purchase.

📸 A Look Inside

Every screenshot below is the live demo site — sign in with admin@falconcms.demo / FalconDemo2025! and click through it yourself.

Falcon Builder

Drag-and-drop containers, columns and elements over a live preview of the real theme. The navigator on the left is the page structure; changes render exactly as the frontend will serve them.

Select any element to open its settings panel, and switch the canvas between desktop, tablet and mobile to set per-device values and visibility.

Element settings	Responsive preview

Content & Media

Posts & pages	Media library
Custom post types	Menu builder

E-commerce — in the free core

Products	Orders
Shop overview	Storefront

Appearance & Administration

Customizer	Themes
Roles & permissions	Plugins

Screenshots are regenerated from the live demo with node docs/scripts/screenshots.mjs. See docs/scripts/README.md.

🛡️ Falcon Security — Laravel CMS security in one plugin (Pro)

Falcon Security is the security suite that ships with FalconCMS Pro: two-factor authentication, passkeys, OTP by SMS and WhatsApp, a web application firewall, a malware scanner with signed release integrity, a Content Security Policy builder, spam protection, fake-order protection for cash on delivery, and an agency dashboard — configured from the admin, no code.

Fake-order check & courier history	Risk on the orders list
OTP by SMS & WhatsApp	Sign-in security
Content Security Policy builder	Phone check on an order

These screens are from the live demo. The demo has no courier account, so the delivery figures in the phone checks are sample data.

🛡️ Falcon Security guide

✨ Falcon Effects — animations for the Laravel page builder (Pro)

Falcon Effects brings motion to pages built with the Falcon Builder: text that reveals itself as the page scrolls, sections that move, borders that light up, buttons and pictures that react to the mouse, particle backgrounds, a 360° panorama viewer and a 3D / 360° view for shop products. No code: every effect is a switch in the Extra tab of a container, column or element, and it plays in the builder while you edit.

Every effect loads its script only where it is used, keeps still for visitors who ask for less motion, and can be switched per device.

Border Animation in the builder	360° product spin
360° panorama viewer

See it working on the demo: demo.falconcms.com/effects-showcase.

✨ Falcon Effects guide

💎 Core vs Pro

FalconCMS is open-core. The core above is MIT-licensed and stays free. Pro is a separate, proprietary package (falconcms/pro) that unlocks the commercial features.

Pro is a one-time license per site and includes 12 months of updates and support; renew only if you want to keep receiving them. Agency covers unlimited client sites.

💎 Pricing · Installing Pro

⚓ Hook System Examples

Adding a Filter

add_falcon_filter('falcon_general_settings_fields', function($fields) {
    $fields['my_custom_option'] = ['type' => 'text', 'label' => 'Custom Option'];
    return $fields;
});

Adding an Action

add_falcon_action('falcon_after_post_content', function($post) {
    echo "<div>Related Content Here</div>";
});

Registering a Custom Builder Element

add_falcon_filter('falcon_builder_elements', function($elements) {
    $elements['my_element'] = [
        'label' => 'My Element',
        'icon'  => 'star',
        'fields' => [],
    ];
    return $elements;
});

📖 Hooks API reference — all 109 hooks

📚 Documentation