A super-slick CMS - no plugins needed.

SetSeed is a self-hosted CMS which lets you rapidly build and deploy complete websites and online stores for your clients.

The CMS interface is beautiful, easy and lets your clients control their content without breaking your design. Use your own logo on the CMS and even in our training videos for your clients.

A single installation powers all your sites, so everyone’s always up to date. Breath life into your front-end code with the flexible Smarty template system and full CSS/Javascript control.

Pay a one off low-cost fee per site (from $40) - no expensive monthly payments.

Free download now Complete application, runs in demo mode without Domain Keys. Required: Linux web server, PHP 5.2+, Apache 2, MySQL 5+.

Sites running in demo mode are limited to 5 pages and 5 blog articles, but are otherwise fully functional. Demo limitations can be removed with a Domain Key.

SetSeed comes with all these features right out of the box

Gone are the days of relying on third party plugins to add basic functionality to your clients' sites.

Task Based Interface

Pages

Blog

Password protect pages

e-Commerce

Images

Contact Forms

Calendars

Newsletter email list

Video

Galleries

Livechat

Multi-Language

Version Control

iOS CMS UI (soon)

Multi-admin users

Preview System

RSS

Sitemap

Search

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Great for content editors

SetSeed's CMS interface is like no other

Because SetSeed is fully-featured out of the box, all controls use an intuitive, consistent interface which is revolutionary in it's balance between power and simplicity.

New heights of resilience

Lets face it, your clients aren't web savvy. Why should they be? Unlike most CMS's, SetSeed doesn't give them too much control; it lets them edit their content without any risk of breaking your design. No more reminding clients of their design's style guide!

Bye bye WYSIWYG

Almost every other CMS out there will always use a third-party WYSIWYG editor to actually handle text entry. SetSeed uses a completely custom-built text editor to make editing content simple, fast and robust and suffers from none of the vulnerabilities normally associated with WYSIWYG editors. Paste from anywhere, nothing will break.

Your clients train themselves

We created a comprehensive set of training videos which will show your clients exactly how to use the CMS without any input from you. Any CMS with a comprehensive feature-set will require client training; we've just stopped you having to do it. Plus, our videos have a very neat trick up their sleeve.

“With SetSeed he gave us a means of editing and updating that is flexible and easy to use.”
Simon Foxall - focusonsound.com

“[SetSeed] is a dream to use”
Andrew Robinson - www.evolutioncreationsemiotics.org

“You don't have to be a trained website administrator to make changes as it is extremely user-friendly.”
Bridget Rendal - www.shillingfordorganics.co.uk

“SetSeed is really good and easy to use!”
Owen Lane - www.limitedcompanyband.co.uk

“SetSeed is flexible and straight forward to use and enables us to change site content immediately. ”
Angus Ramsay - www.ramsay-maunder.co.uk

“It is a dream, simple, straight forward and good value.”
Dan Haygarth - www.fantasticilluminations.co.uk

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Great for designers and developers

Create fully featured sites

Offer your clients amazing features like a full shop with stock control, a blog, images galleries, contact forms, video, calendars, email newsletter, livechat, multiple languages, password protection and much more. All features are ready to go - no plugins or add-ons needed; just style it up and go.

One installation, all your sites

A single installation on your server powers all your clients' sites. This means you can keep all your clients on the latest version just by updating once. We can't tell you how great it feels knowing you'll never have to update multiple installations with the same update again.

Great development workflow

SetSeed can be installed locally as well as on your live server. This means you can easily develop a site locally before simply exporting to your live server. No need to edit templates in a browser or upload over and over. It also has a preview URL system for further pre-launch flexibility.

Powerful Smarty templates

SetSeed uses a proper, logical (and documented) Smarty template system to let you build exactly the site you want. No longer will you have to poke around in PHP files to build your site's themes. Style almost everything with full control over CSS/XHTML and Javascript / jQuery.

Host it yourself

Because SetSeed is hosted on your own server, you have full control over quality of service and short and long term availability. Power hundreds of sites without worrying about what happens if your hosted CMS provider goes out of business and eliminate monthly fees.

Rapid site deployment

Deploy new sites without installing software and setting up plugins. SetSeed lets you deploy new sites from a central control panel, called the Hub, then you can start editing templates using your favourite text editor.

“The most promising CMS I've seen in a long time. Check out the UI from the future.”
@avenirdesign

“Visually amazing #CMS”
@avenuefactory

“wow, one of the more promising CMS's that I have seen”
@brewern

“SetSeed is a REALLY powerful CMS. - I know what I'm going to use from now on.”
@MMarklund

“new cms on the block @setseed has an interesting menu /input concept executed”
@brilliantjessup

“HOLY FRICKING COW HOW COOL IS YOUR CMS! WOW”
@cssgareth

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SetSeed powered websites

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Get started today

Download SetSeed now Complete application, runs in demo mode without Domain Keys. Required: Linux web server, PHP 5.2+, Apache 2, MySQL 5+.

Or checkout the documentation and FAQs.

Full support for developers

Get in direct contact with Ben Vallack, SetSeed's developer, who will gladly help you with installation, working with templates or using the CMS.
Twitter: @SetSeed
Facebook: SetSeed
LinkedIn: Ben Vallack
Email: Contact form

 

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