Zotonic is the content management system and framework for semantic data and high connectivity web sites.
Your data outlives your website. Share your data. Grow your data. Use Zotonic.

The Rationale of Zotonic
Zotonic is a modern and extensive content management system. It has its roots in systems before it and carries the…

Download Zotonic
Get the latest release Download the latest release of Zotonic from Github. Use git clone, so that you can easily…

The Zotonic data model
Zotonic’s data model is a pragmatic implementation of the Semantic Web: a mixture between a traditional database and a…

Support & Services
Community support - mailinglists Do you want to start a Zotonic based project? Then join our mailing lists and discuss…
The Zotonic content management system excels in managing structured data from multiple sources. It brings structure to your documents and makes semantic data manageable for normal humans.
Real time connectivity is deeply integrated using the Internet of Things publish/subscribe protocol MQTT.
Recent articles, cookbooks, release notes and video.

Zotonic Quick Intro
Presentation with an overview of Zotonic. Touches shortly the various parts to make yourself acquainted with the data model, code organization and other concepts.

Support & Services
Community support - mailinglists Do you want to start a Zotonic based project? Then join our mailing lists and discuss Zotonic with us, our developers and our users.
Other cookbooks
Create a custom action Create a custom filter Create a custom model Create a custom controller Custom pivots Create a custom tag Custom search Pivot Templates Writing your own module Overriding Zotonic Execute tasks asynchronously using…
Shell cookbook
Activate/deactivate modules Filter and convert characters Erlang tab completion Debugging db (query) issues Reset a user’s password Restore/upgrade content db from backup
Just enough…
These Cookbook items each represent a stage in some Zotonic users’ journeys to understand the workings of Erlang and related technologies in general.
Frontend cookbook
These cookbook entries contain valuable nuggets of information regarding the frontend development of a site.
Admin cookbook
Creating a custom widget on the edit page Customizing the layout of the admin edit page Customizing the style of an admin page Storing date/time fields Admin template specific things Automatically add new users to a user group…

Cotonic: browser coroutines with an universal MQTT message bus | Marc Worrell | Code BEAM V 2020
This video was recorded at Code BEAM V 2020 - https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-vCotonic: browser coroutines with an universal MQTT message bus |...
Create a custom controller
Zotonic comes with a large collection controllers that cover many use cases, so you’ll probably have to resort to custom controllers less often than you may be used to from other web frameworks. Still, the time may come when you need to…