What makes oddCMS special?

It's fast.

oddCMS is very fast. I don't mean "database with a cache" fast, I mean "comparable to static pages" fast. It's designed to serve non-dynamically generated content as fast as possible, and it succeeds.

oddCMS doesn't depend on a database -- its use of flat files allows it to benefit from the disk caching of the server OS. The file structure is designed for fast access and minimal parsing, avoiding much the overhead found in other flat-file CMS packages.

It's simple.

The core engine of oddCMS is under 300 lines of PHP, including comments. You can read through the entire codebase in 15 minutes. Anyone with a knowledge of PHP can easily understand how it works. As a result, oddCMS is easy to extend and easy to modify.

It's secure.

The use of flat files means that there is no SQL to exploit. oddCMS doesn't require any write access. All content, all templates, and all stylesheets can be made read-only -- you could run a site using oddCMS from a read-only filesystem (if you wanted to.) Content can be stored in directories inaccessible to the web server -- as long as PHP can open the directory, oddCMS can read content from it. Requests are sanitized to prevent directory traversal attacks.

It's easy to extend.

oddCMS is released as open source under a very permissive license. It's easy to modify and easy to extend.

It's easy to integrate.

oddCMS was designed with the automated addition, modification, and removal of static content in mind. oddCMS's directory-based content management makes the programmatic management of content as simple as reading and writing plain text files. It's perfectly suited to automated publishing.