Minimalist CMS in PHP 8.2+ and MySQL
A truly flexible CMS, built to give rhythm to the ideas that move your business. You describe it, the AI installs Velk, writes the site.json and the panel appears — running on any PHP host.
Paste into Claude Code — the AI downloads and installs Velk for you:
Install the Velk skill from skill.velkcms.com into ~/.claude/skills/velk
Create a blog with categories and an author field.
Adding the post type to site.json…
{
"item_types": {
"post": {
"label": "Blog",
"slug": "blog",
"template": "single-post.php",
"taxonomies": ["categoria"],
"fields": [
{ "name": "content", "type": "richtext" },
{ "name": "autor", "type": "text" }
]
}
}
}
velk
$ ./bin/velk schema:validate
✓ Valid schema — panel updated.
Why Velk
Three architecture decisions explain almost everything — and they are what make the AI work so well with Velk.
Pages, content types, taxonomies, fields, forms, members: all declared in a single file. The admin panel is generated from it — change the schema, change the panel.
No template language, no hooks, no plugin tree. Helpers like field() and items() — if you know PHP, you already know Velk. And your AI knows PHP.
You never edit the core. Upgrades swap the whole engine and preserve theme, content and uploads — updating the CMS stops being a risky project.
Vibe coding
The official skill teaches Velk to the AI — which installs the framework, writes the schema and runs the site for you.
Talk it through: sections, content types, fields. In plain language.
It writes the site.json and the templates, and validates with schema:validate.
SSH, FTP, cPanel. On the first request Velk runs the migrations by itself.
The panel only shows what the site has. No config screens, no broken plugins.
Paste into Claude Code to install:
Install the Velk skill from skill.velkcms.com into ~/.claude/skills/velk
Features
No plugins to hunt, no pro version. The essentials come ready — and organized.
From plain text to ACF-style flexible content — with galleries, repeaters and relationships between content.
The editing screens come from site.json: the client only sees what the site actually has.
Meta title, description and og:image on every page and item, plus an automatic sitemap.
CSRF + honeypot, submissions saved to the database and sent by email.
URLs with a per-language prefix, per-content translation and configurable fallback.
Everything the panel does, bin/velk does over JSON — create content, publish, validate the schema. It is what lets the AI run the site end to end.
$ ./bin/velk item:create post --json-stdin
Site logins — clients, students, leads — separate from admin users, with their own types and fields.
And more: media with automatic sizes, global options, alternate templates, auto-migrate…
Todos os recursosFor devs — and their AIs
A Velk template is a PHP file that prints content with half a dozen helpers. Nothing to memorize, nothing to compile — what you read is what renders.
<?phpwith_context($item, function () { get_header(); ?> <article class="post"> <h1><?= e(the_title()) ?></h1> <?= field('content') /* trusted */ ?> </article> <?php get_footer();});?>single-post.php — a complete, real template.
Elleven
Elleven is the agency that created and maintains Velk. If you need a professional team to build and evolve your site, get in touch and see our cases and services.
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