PageBrick

Business websites your clients can’t break.

PageBrick is a small, open-source CMS for company websites. Owners edit texts and photos in a panel that fits on one screen. Developers keep full control of the front end. Updates check every page and undo themselves if anything breaks.

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PHP 8.2+ · MySQL or MariaDB · Any cPanel hosting · GPL-3.0

The PageBrick panel, editing the home page of a site

For the people who run the business

Everything a company site needs, and nothing to learn.

Edit like a form

Each page is a short form: a title, some text, a photo. The layout stays exactly as designed, whatever gets typed.

Hide a section, bring back a version

Sections switch off with one click. Every page keeps its last ten versions, ready to restore.

Contact form and blog included

Messages arrive by e-mail and stay in the panel. Spam stays out, with no captcha.

More than one language

English, Portuguese and Spanish, for the panel and for the site. Each page can have its translations.

For the people who build the sites

The front end is yours. PageBrick adds nothing you didn’t ask for: no CSS, no JavaScript, no cookies. Write plain PHP templates with any build tool, replace any plugin’s markup from your theme, or skip PHP entirely and read the content as JSON.

Build a theme 

<!-- templates/home.php -->
<h1><?= $page->hero->title ?></h1>
<?php foreach ($page->services->items as $item): ?>
    <h2><?= $item->title ?></h2>
<?php endforeach ?>

# or headless, from Next.js, Astro or an app
curl https://example.com/api/v1/pages/about

Updates that never break a site

Clicking Update in the panel is safe. Five guarantees, each one checked by automated tests on every release.

  1. 01

    A frozen API

    Everything themes and plugins use is listed and versioned. Within a version, nothing is removed or changed.

  2. 02

    A frozen site

    A real agency site built on 1.0 must deliver the same HTML, byte for byte, on every new release.

  3. 03

    Checked before

    If an active plugin or the theme isn’t ready for the new version, the panel says which one and waits.

  4. 04

    Checked after

    The first visit after an update renders every page. If one fails, the previous version comes back on its own.

  5. 05

    Your files untouched

    Updates replace the core only. Themes, plugins, photos and settings stay exactly as they are.

Try it

  1. Pick a button to see what happens during an update.

Installed in five minutes

Upload, open the site, answer four short screens. No terminal, no command line.

  1. Step 1

    Download

    Get the latest pagebrick zip from GitHub.

  2. Step 2

    Upload

    Send what is inside its pagebrick folder to your hosting, with the cPanel file manager or FTP.

  3. Step 3

    Create a database

    In cPanel, the MySQL Database Wizard creates the database and its user in one go.

  4. Step 4

    Open your site

    The installer checks the server, connects to the database and creates a finished example site.

Download PageBrick

Free and open source

Licensed under the GPL-3.0. Made in Brazil and built in the open on GitHub.

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