Welcome!
BoltWire is an easy to use web development engine with surprizing flexibility and power. It has the various strengths of a CMS, a wiki, a search engine, and more, all rolled together into a software system of ground-breaking design. Best of all it's free!
Download & Install
To begin exploring BoltWire right now, just extract the zip file below to your web space, double check your permissions, and go. (Installation tips). It runs on just about any server with PHP4 (PHP5 recommended) and it's a snap to upgrade. The download is less than 100k and should take just a second or two. Here's the license. Latest stable release (below) is Version 3.4. See the downloads page for the latest, cutting edge release.
Our Secret
The secret behind BoltWire's small size, yet robust capabilities, is its amazing ZAP engine, that allows EASY form generation and processing. Create fully interactive sites without having to learn a line of programming. Better still, you can completely control how EVERY aspect of BoltWire works--from right within your browser. It is just tweaking some form. With BoltWire, you do more than build content, you build applications!
Key Features
Some of BoltWire's main features are listed below. For a more complete list, visit our features page:
- Easy to install and upgrade
- Run multiple sites off one installation
- Built in member and group management
- Easy to use wiki markup system
- Powerful search engine capabilities
- In-browser editing of skins & CSS
- Standards compliant
- UTF-8 and multi-lingual support
- One click installation of plugins
- Innovative developer help system
- Strong session-based security
- Active development community
Extensions Galore
BoltWire is designed to extend easily--and virtually everything is configurable. Plus there are more than 150+ plugins, skins, and language files in our extensions area, ranging from instant messaging to e-commerce, forums to blogs, and newsletters to RSS... Better yet, create your own. BoltWire let's you build your site, bolt by bolt, and connect your users wire by wire. Give it a try!
Cheers,Development Team