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  <a href="https://boltcms.io/"><img src="https://boltcms.io/theme/boltcms-2021/img/logo.svg" alt="Bolt logo" width="350">
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<h4 align="center">The starting point of your new website</h4>

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  <a href="#key-features">Key Features</a> •
  <a href="#how-to-use">How To Use</a> •
  <a href="#how-to-contribute">How To Contribute</a> •
  <a href="#credits">Credits</a> •
  <a href="#license">License</a>
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<img src="https://boltcms.io/files/homepage/2020/09/Schermafbeelding-2020-09-24-om-12-47-22.png" alt="Bolt screenshot" />

## Key Features

Bolt is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running modern websites. 
It's built on PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, Twig, API-Platform and more. Bolt can be used as a traditional 
CMS or headless/decoupled. It is fully multilingual, and extensible using custom code in your projects, 
or through extensions installed from the Composer ecosystem.

* **Built with Symfony**: fully extensible with Symfony 5 extensions
* **YAML configuration**: Adding new types of pages, new fields, new languages, etc. is all done in neat YAML.
* **Built-in internationalisation** and Editor available in 15 languages.
* **Out-of-the-box API**: RESTful and GraphQL
* **Dummy content** to test your site in development or show it to a client
* **Best rich content editors** Fully licensed Redactor and Article fields to fit any content, for free.

## How To Use

To create a new Bolt Project, check out the instructions in Bolt's
[distribution repository](https://github.com/bolt/project/).

For **development** of Bolt CMS itself, check out the [setup guide](./SETUP.md)

## How To Contribute

There are multiple ways to help the Bolt project going forward:

* Star this repository
* Learn how to [spread the word](https://docs.bolt.cm/other/contributing)
* Help by writing and [contributing code or documentation](https://docs.bolt.cm/other/contributing)
* [Sponsor Bob](https://github.com/sponsors/bobdenotter): Bolt's creator and chief developer


## Credits

The ongoing Bolt development takes place under the care of:

- [Two Kings - Artisinal Web Development](https://www.twokings.nl/)

## License

MIT

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