Say Hello to Grav 2.0!

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Congratulations! You have installed the Base Grav 2.0 Package that provides a simple page and the new default Quark 2 theme to get you started — built on Blades CSS (the actively maintained successor to Pico CSS), Font Awesome 7, and a refined typographic system with light/dark/auto appearance.

Warning

If you see a 404 Error when you click Typography in the menu, please refer to the troubleshooting guide.

Find out all about Grav

Learn about Grav by checking out our dedicated Learn Grav site.
Download plugins, themes, and Grav skeleton packages from the Grav Downloads page.
Follow the Grav Development Blog to keep up with the latest happenings in the Grav-verse.
Browse the source on GitHub and file issues or pull requests there.

Tip

If you want a more full-featured base install, check out the Skeleton packages available in the downloads — several have already been updated for Grav 2.0.

Edit this Page

To edit this page, navigate to the folder you installed Grav into, and browse to the user/pages/01.home folder. Open default.md in your editor of choice. You'll see the content of this page written in Markdown format.

Create a New Page

Creating a new page is a simple affair in Grav. Follow these steps:

Navigate to your pages folder — user/pages/ — and create a new folder. In this example, we'll use explicit default ordering and call the folder 03.mypage.

Launch your text editor and paste in the following sample content:

---
title: My New Page
---
# My New Page!

This is the body of **my new page** and I can easily use _Markdown_ syntax here.

Save this file in user/pages/03.mypage/ as default.md. That tells Grav to render the page using the default template from Quark 2.
Reload your browser to see your new page appear in the menu.

Note

The page will automatically show up in the menu after the Typography item. If you want a different label, add menu: My Page between the dashes in the front matter — this is the YAML header block, where all per-page options are configured.

What's new in Grav 2.0

Grav 2.0 is the biggest release in the project's history — a modernized core, a rebuilt admin, a fresh default theme, and an updated dependency stack. Most of what you already know still works, but everything underneath has been sharpened.

PHP 8.3+ baseline, with a modernized core and typed internals throughout.
Symfony 7 + Twig 3 dependency stack, bringing the latest framework improvements and long-term support.
Quark 2 as the default theme — Blades CSS, Font Awesome 7, auto/light/dark mode with localStorage persistence, locally-hosted Cal Sans + Inter fonts, and a refined Cal.com-inspired design system.
Admin 2.0 — a fully API-powered SPA interface that's dramatically faster, more responsive, and decoupled from page renders. Navigation, form saves, and media operations no longer trigger full reloads.
Public REST API — the same endpoints that power Admin 2.0 are available to your own tools and integrations.
GitHub Markdown Alerts — the legacy markdown-notices plugin has been replaced by github-markdown-alerts, using the familiar > [!NOTE] / [!TIP] / [!IMPORTANT] / [!WARNING] / [!CAUTION] syntax.
Refined caching and asset pipeline — cleaner invalidation, faster cold starts, and smarter dependency fingerprinting.
Hardened security defaults — tightened CSP headers, modern session handling, and improved input sanitization across core plugins.
Better developer ergonomics — stricter type hints, cleaner event signatures, and clearer deprecation paths.

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