Understand AnQi CMS - System Overview

What is AnQiCMS

AnQi Content Management System (AnQiCMS) is a usageGoLangOpen source enterprise-level content management system developed. Its predecessor is the GoBlog blog system (launched in 2019), after multiple重构 and functional expansion,May 2022Officially renamed AnQiCMS, gradually developed into a content management system for enterprise-level applications.

The AnQi CMS is easy to deploy, secure software, with an elegant interface, compact, and runs extremely fast. It is built with many common features for enterprise websites, SEO-friendly, and can effectively improve website management efficiency and corporate competitiveness.

Brand vision: Make the world a safe website.

❓ I don't understand Go language at all, can I use AnQi CMS?

Absolutely.AnQi CMS isCompile typean application, the official directly provides executable files for Linux / Windows / MacOS (anqicmsoranqicms.exe), unzip and run directly. YouNot requiredInstall the Go language environment, and you don't need to write any Go code. Its user experience is the same as PHP CMS——the background operation interface is a web page, and adding content, switching templates are all done in the browser.

You only need the Go language environment when you want to modify the underlying system code or develop new features. For the vast majority of users, AnQi CMS is just a 'unzip and use' software.

Applicable scenarios

AnQi CMS is suitable for various types of website construction:

❓ Can AnQi CMS only be used for corporate websites? Can it also be used for forums, video stations, question and answer communities?

The core positioning of AnQi CMS isContent ManagementNot a social/community system, suitable for主要以 content displaytype of website. Its strengths are in creating corporate websites, marketing sites, blogs, and knowledge bases of this kind.

The following types are not very suitable:

unsuitable scenarios	Reason
Forums/BBS	Lacks post replies, private messages, points, and other social functions
Video sites/podcasts	No special video upload, transcoding, or player management
Question and answer communities	There is no Q&A process, acceptance of answers, or reward mechanism
SaaS platform	The multi-tenant system is not a design goal of this system

You can understand it as: AnqiCMS ≈ corporate website building tool, not a comprehensive community platform. If you need forum functionality, you can deploy Discuz! and other forum systems separately next to AnqiCMS, and jump to them through navigation links

Technical architecture

Core dependency libraries:

• gorm— ORM framework
• iris— Web framework
• golang-jwt— JWT authentication
• sego- Chinese word segmentation
• goquery- HTML parsing
• chromedp- Browser automation
• gomarkdown/markdown- Markdown parsing
• robfig/cron- Task scheduling

❓ What is the Iris framework? Is it still active? Will it affect the security of Anqi CMS?

Iris is one of the most well-known web frameworks in the Go language ecosystem, known for its high performance and rich middleware ecosystem. Although the community activity is not as high as that of frameworks like Gin, it is a mature open-source project (released for 12+ years) with stable core features and security. AnQi CMS has been using Iris since version v0.5 and has encapsulated its own routing, middleware, and security logic on top of the framework.

For users,what the underlying framework is does not affect your use.——You see are the background web pages, template tags, API interfaces, which are unrelated to the underlying framework. The author of AnQiCMS will continue to follow up on the security updates of the framework, and users do not need to worry.

Comparison advantages with PHP CMS

AnQiCMS as a GoLang compiled application has significant advantages compared to traditional PHP CMS (such as DedeCMS, WordPress, PbootCMS):

❓ How is the ecosystem compared to Anqicms and WordPress? Are there many themes/plugins?

This is a very realistic problem. To be honest, Anqicms'sThe scale of the ecosystem is far less than WordPress. WordPress has accumulated for 20+ years, with more than 60,000 plugins and tens of thousands of themes, which Anqicms cannot compare to.

But Anqicms's strategy isBuilt-in featuresNot dependent on plugin ecosystem:

Feature	WordPress method	Anqicms method
SEO Optimization	Install Yoast SEO and other plugins	System integrated — Sitemap, push, structured data and one-stop integration
AI Writing	Install AI plugins	System integrated — Direct access to OpenAI/DeepSeek/Xinghuo
multilingual	Install WPML and other paid plugins	System integrated — All three modes are native supported
Mall	WooCommerce (additional configuration required)	Built-in - Products/SKU/Cart/Order/Payment
Security protection	Install Wordfence and other plugins	Built-in - IP restriction/Frequency control/Prevention of scraping

So the positioning of Anqi CMS is:Ready to use, fully featuredNo need to look for plugins everywhere. For enterprise website building scenarios, built-in functions are completely sufficient. If you need a special feature (video site, forum, etc.), choosing WordPress or a dedicated system may be more appropriate.

Open Source License

Anqi CMS usageGNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0)Open source protocol.

The AGPL-3.0 protocol requires that if you modify the code and provide services on the network (i.e., through Web interaction), you must provide the complete source code modified to all users. This design is specifically for network server software to ensure that improvements are returned to the community.

❓ Does the AGPL-3.0 protocol mean that if I use AnqiCMS to do a commercial website, the source code of my website must also be made public?

This is the most easily misunderstood part of the AGPL license. Please distinguish between two concepts:

Concept	Do you need to open source
The content of your website(Articles, product introductions, images, etc.)	❌ No, the copyright of the content belongs to you
The template code of your website(Template file)*.html)	❌ No, the template belongs to the content layer
Your modifications to the AnqiCMS source codeAlteredcontroller//model/and core code	✅Need to open sourceModified source code
The system you connect through API	❌ Not needed, independent systems are not affected by the protocol infection

通俗理解: The AGPL-3.0 license restricts the distribution and modification of the Anqicms software itself, not the content and presentation of your website. As long as you do not distribute/modify the source code, use the official binary package by default, everything is normal.

Full text of AGPL-3.0 license in the project root directoryLicensefile.