Knowing together.
The CMS where people, content and rich data come together. Build connected websites that grow with your ideas.
The Rationale of Zotonic
Zotonic is a modern and extensive content management system. It has its roots in systems before it and carries the…
Understand pages and connections
See how resources, categories, predicates and collections fit together.
Get Zotonic
Choose a release or a development checkout and follow the installation guide.
Support & Services
Community support - mailinglists Do you want to start a Zotonic based project? Then join our mailing lists and discuss…
Reference documentation
Look up Zotonic modules, models, controllers, notifications, templates, and other extension points.
Latest releases
What changed, what was fixed, and how to upgrade.
Release notes
1.0.0_rc.17
Released on 2026-03-30.
Release notes
0.94.0
Welcome to Zotonic 0.94.0, released on August 25, 2026.
Articles and cookbook recipes
Practical explanations and solutions from the Zotonic team.
About collaboration groups
Working together on private content. Groups can organize and manage members without the complexity of the full access control system.
Building a live updating search page
Search pages are often simple forms that reload the page with new arguments. In this article we will show how you can make a search page that updates live whilst typing or selecting options. The…
Tracing templates for greater understanding
A picture tells a thousand words, so we added an exciting new development tool to explore which templates are used during page rendering. Our new tool gives a graph view of all templates.
Render template values safely
Choose escaping for the value and the output context.
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.
Rehearse a complete site restore
Restore into isolation and verify content, media, and access.
Inspect and export Zotonic metrics
Discover actual metrics before configuring subscriptions.
Update a preview from a selection
Validate a selection before rendering a resource preview.
Watch and read
Videos and PDF resources from the Zotonic community—an evolving collection of talks, presentations, handouts, and papers.
PDFs
Publications and downloadable material
Zotonic Quick Intro
Presentation with an overview of Zotonic. Touches shortly the various parts to make yourself acquainted with…
Cowmachine decision flow and callbacks
Overview of controller callbacks and decisions.
Videos
Talks, demos, and recorded presentations
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…
