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title: "Open Source Software - JHB Software"
description: "JHB Software develops and maintains Open Source projects around Payload CMS, templates, and plugins – because sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle of our work."
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# Open Source Software

Creating Open Source and supporting the community is a fundamental principle at JHB Software.

### Open Source as a principle

Creating Open Source software and supporting the community is not a secondary thought for us, but a fundamental principle at JHB Software. We believe that better software arises through open exchange and collaboration – and we want to actively contribute to that.

### Sharing knowledge

We develop Open Source software and make it freely available to the developer community. The open exchange of knowledge and solutions is important to us.

### Supporting the community

We actively engage in the Open Source community, answer questions, take in issues, and appreciate every contribution from the community.

### Quality through openness

Public code and community reviews lead to better, more robust software. We value transparency and external contributions as important quality factors.

## Our Open Source projects

All our Open Source projects are available on [GitHub](https://github.com/jhb-software).

## [Payload CMS Plugins](https://github.com/jhb-software/payload-plugins)

A collection of powerful plugins to extend Payload CMS. The repository contains plugins for admin search, AI-based alt text generation, geocoding, hierarchical page management, Cloudinary integration, content translation, and Astro RichText rendering.

## [Payload & Astro Website Template](https://github.com/jhb-software/payload-astro-website-template)

A complete template for building high-performance and scalable content-driven websites with Payload CMS and Astro. The template supports multilingual websites and includes SEO metadata, path generation, breadcrumbs, live preview, analytics, and automatic sitemap generation.

## [JHB Software Website](https://github.com/jhb-software/website)

The monorepository of this website is also open source! It contains the Astro frontend as well as the Payload CMS backend and serves as a real example of using the Payload & Astro website templates.