Overview
Nick is a headless content management system (CMS) that is compatible with the [Plone](https://plone.org} REST API and can thus be used together with the Volto frontend. Nick together with Volto is well-known for its user-friendly interface and robust security features. With Nick and Volto, even non-technical users can easily create and manage the content for a public website or intranet using only a web browser. Nick and Volto’s intuitive interface and comprehensive set of features make it a popular choice for businesses, governments, universities, and any organization that needs a reliable and easy-to-use CMS.
Lots of customizations can be made through-the-web, such as creating content types, themes, workflows, and much more. A full file system based development workflow is possible and recommended for team work and deployment, backed by source code repositories. Nick can be extended and used as a framework on which to build custom CMS-like solutions.
Key benefits
Security is built into Nick’s architecture from the ground up. Nick offers fine-grained permission control over content and actions.
Nick is easy to set up compared to other CMSs in its category, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, websites, extranets, and intranets.
- Nick empowers content editors and web application developers. The Nick Team includes usability experts who have made Nick easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.
- Nick is international. The Nick interface has more than 35 translations, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.
- Nick follows standards and is inclusive. Nick carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility.
- Nick is open source. Nick is licensed under the MIT License. This gives you the right to use Nick without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.
- Nick is extensible. There is a multitude of add-on products for Nick to add new features and content types.
- Nick is technology neutral. Nick runs on many platforms, including Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.
High level overview for developers
Deployment
To run a public Nick website in production, you also need to configure and run a reverse proxy, arrange for SSL certificates (either from Let’s Encrypt or manually), guarantee persistence of the content database, and arrange backups. This is the domain of systems administrators and modern developer-operations professionals. Our documentation contains setup examples for these services, yet requires that the reader have some generic experience and knowledge of these domains.