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pando_cms — HTML Admin dashboard Template

By roymasad

pando_cms is a PHP 5-based custom CMS for portfolio websites, offering a customizable admin dashboard for CRUD operations and a demo frontend.

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PHP 5-based custom CMS for portfolio websites

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Customizable admin dashboard template with CRUD operations

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Includes a portfolio demo frontend

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Provides .sql files for database import

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MIT-licensed, allowing free use, modification, and distribution

Template Details

pando_cms is a PHP 5 custom content management system developed and continuously used by the author between 2009 and 2012, primarily for portfolio websites. It includes a templated admin dashboard for CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations and comes with a portfolio demo frontend. The project structure is simple, but it lacks many features compared to modern frameworks such as Laravel and Yii. The repository provides .sql files for database import, and some libraries or extensions (such as a Flash video player) may not work properly. The project is MIT-licensed and may be used, modified, and distributed free of charge.

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Is it right for your project?

Use Cases

  • Building a personal portfolio website that needs simple backend content management
  • Learning how early PHP 5 custom CMS implementations were built
  • Using it as a base for small projects, modifying the admin and frontend templates as needed

Suitable For

  • Individual developers who need a lightweight PHP portfolio CMS
  • Learners interested in the structure of custom CMSs from the PHP 5 era
  • Those who want to build small portfolio sites through secondary development based on existing code

Getting started & customization

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    Requires a PHP 5 runtime environment

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    Import the .sql files provided in the repository to initialize the database

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    Some libraries or extensions (such as a Flash video player) may not work properly

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    Before use, verify the licenses of third-party assets such as demo images, fonts, and icons

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Free to use · keep license notice

This entry covers the free version in the public repository under the MIT license; the free scope applies to that version's code and does not mean that external services or third-party assets are free.

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  • The code of this version may be used, modified, used commercially, and distributed free of charge.
  • When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
  • The code is provided as is; warranties and limitations of liability are governed by the original license and applicable law.

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  • Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked against their respective licenses; the code's MIT license alone is not sufficient to determine this.
  • External services such as domains, hosting, databases, payments, or AI may incur separate charges.
  • Some libraries or extensions (such as a Flash video player) may not work properly; confirm whether the relevant functionality is available before use.
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Some libraries/extensions wont work like the flash video player

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Template Information

Source platforms
GitHub
Documentation and maintenance reference score
Partly documented · 61 / 100
Technologies
HTML
Website type
Admin dashboard · Portfolio
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Repository update recorded
2023-10-11
Screenshot last checked
2026-10-12

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Source file / repository
# pando_cms
PHP 5 custom CMS for portfolio websites

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I built it and used it/updated it from 2009 to 2012

Simple but allowed to customize its template admin dashboard for CRUD operations

Comes with one of its demo frontends for portofolios

Missing alot of features compared to modern frameworks like Lavarel and Yii, but it did get the job done 

Import .sql

Some libraries/extensions wont work like the flash video player
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