Folder Tour

Take a walk through the wonderful world of Statamic.

Statamic’s base folder structure looks like this:

_add-ons/
_app/
_cache/
_config/
_content/
_logs/
_themes/
admin/
assets/
admin.php
index.php

What Each Folder Does

• _add-ons is where you keep add-ons that you want to use in Statamic. Installing an add-on is simply a matter of dropping the add-on folder into your _add-ons folder.
• _app is where all of our core files are kept. You shouldn’t need to touch anything in here.
• _cache is where Statamic’s core and other add-ons can store files for data management. You probably don’t need to touch anything in this folder either, the system will do that for you.
• _config is where you configure Statamic and set global variables.
• _content is where all of your content files are. Simple as that.
• _logs is where messages are logged to by default. This can be changed in your configuration.
• _themes is where you’ll put the files defining how your site looks and feels. If you’re using a theme that someone else made, you would drop their theme folder in this folder.
• admin holds all of the Control Panel files. If you don’t want to use the Control Panel, you can delete this folder.
• assets is where we recommend putting site images, scripts, and downloadable files, but this folder isn’t used by system files at all. Just a helper to get you started.

What Each File Does

• admin.php powers the Control Panel. If you don’t want to use the Control Panel, you can delete this file as well.
• index.php powers the public-facing part of your site. You shouldn’t need to touch this file, but it needs to be there.