cmsmgmt

Content Management System Management (cmsmgmt) is a command-line tool written in Go for inspecting and managing local installations of WordPress and Joomla. It can detect the CMS type in a given directory, extract the database configuration from the CMS configuration file, connect to the database, list user accounts, edit user details, and show general or version information.

Features

• Automatic CMS detection – Point cmsmgmt at the root of your CMS installation using the -p/--path flag (or run it in the CMS directory), and it will determine whether you are working with WordPress or Joomla by looking for wp-config.php or configuration.php.
• Database configuration parsing – Reads your CMS configuration to determine connection details for MySQL/PostgreSQL (Joomla) or MySQL (WordPress), including host, port, username, password and database name.
• List users – Enumerates all user accounts in your CMS. For WordPress it reports the username, e-mail, role and other metadata; for Joomla it shows ID, username, name, email and roles.
• Edit users – Allows you to update user information (name and e-mail) for both WordPress and Joomla. Run cmsmgmt users edit <username> and follow the prompts.
• CMS information – Displays general information about the CMS and version number. The info db command prints the database name, database user and detected table prefixes. info version prints the WordPress or Joomla version (and release for Joomla).
• Cross-database support – Joomla installations can be backed by MySQL or PostgreSQL. WordPress support currently assumes MySQL.

Installation

This project is written in Go. To build from source you need Go ≥ 1.24:

git clone https://github.com/earentir/cmsmgmt.git
cd cmsmgmt
go build -o cmsmgmt

Alternatively, you can install the latest version into your $GOBIN using:

go install github.com/earentir/cmsmgmt@latest

The resulting binary can be copied anywhere on your PATH.

Usage

Run cmsmgmt --help to see top-level usage. The basic pattern is:

cmsmgmt [--path /path/to/cms] <command> [subcommand] [flags]

If --path is omitted, cmsmgmt assumes the current working directory is the root of your CMS installation.

List users

# From within the CMS root directory
cmsmgmt users list
# Or specify the CMS path explicitly
cmsmgmt --path /var/www/html users list

Show CMS information

# Display DB information such as DB name, DB user and table prefixes
cmsmgmt info db
# Show CMS version (and release for Joomla)
cmsmgmt info version

Edit a user

# Edit the user with username "admin"
cmsmgmt users edit admin

When you edit a user, cmsmgmt will connect to the database and update the user's name and e-mail address.

Roadmap

Future enhancements may include:

• Changing passwords for Joomla and WordPress users.
• Additional CMS support beyond WordPress and Joomla.
• More detailed reporting on CMS configuration and security settings.

Authors

• @earentir

License

This project follows the Linux Kernel licence (GPL v2). If you require another open licence, please open an issue and we will try to accommodate it.