Back in 2008, I started developing applications for clients in CakePHP. And most of the projects required basic CMS features like pages, blog, contact forms, user management, etc. I realized I was spending extra time by coding the same thing for every project. So I decided to develop a CMS of my own that I can use as a starting point for my future projects.
I started developing Croogo in early 2009, but I made it open source in October hoping it would benefit the CakePHP community as well as the project itself.