Knowing together.
Your data outlives your website.
Grow your data. Share your data.
Zotonic is the content management system and framework for your semantic data and high connectivity web sites.
The Rationale of Zotonic
Zotonic is a modern and extensive content management system. It has its roots in systems before it and carries the…
The Zotonic data model
Zotonic’s data model is a pragmatic implementation of the Semantic Web: a mixture between a traditional database and a…
Download Zotonic
Get the latest release Download the latest release of Zotonic from Github. Use git clone, so that you can easily…
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.
Try out the editorial interface at our demo site.
Zotonic is licensed under the Apache 2.0 open source license.
This is a permissive license whose main conditions require preservation of copyright and license notices. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code. License on github (new window)
Release notes.
Release 0.89.1
Welcome to Zotonic 0.89.1, released on July 3, 2025.
Release 0.89.0
Welcome to Zotonic 0.89.0, released on July 1, 2025.
Recent articles, cookbooks and videos.
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 location of the page will be updated, so…
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.
Security, templates and XSS prevention
Ensuring that you don't fall victim to cross site scripting and other injection attacks takes vigilance, eye for details and especially some good naming habits.
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…
Zotonic - The tshirt!
Just a quick demo of a posible tshirt design. T-Shirt design by: http://www.mannschaft.org/ Get your erlang on at: http://zotonic.com Music by: https://soundcloud.com/illsound/radj-soulscript
Making it Fast - How Zotonic Maximizes Erlang's Power - Arjan Scherpenisse
Erlang User Conference 2013 More info and slides on the website. The talk will focus on the…
