7.3k stars · GPL-3.0 · v.0.47.9-build-17481 (2026-07-23), read from /releases/latest; the date showed no year and falls in the past, so 2026 · Track this in Scout
A desktop program that writes, builds and uploads a static website, with no server to run at all.
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What it is
A desktop content management system. A content management system is the screen you use to write and organise the pages of a website. Publii keeps everything on your own machine, builds a static website from it, and uploads the result over FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, GitHub Pages, Netlify or Google Cloud. Static means the pages are ordinary files with no program running behind them. It ships themes, a menu editor, image handling, and built-in settings for search engines and for privacy notices.What it is good for. Anyone who wants a proper website but does not want to administer one. The problem it removes is the whole maintenance category: no updates to apply, no plugin to break, nothing to patch on a Tuesday. It is the right answer for a personal site, a documentation site or a small business site that changes a few times a month. Edition 14 gave you Sveltia CMS, which is a login page bolted onto a site kept in git, and Edition 3 gave you Astro, which is a framework you build with. This is the version with no git, no framework and no server at all.
- Nothing to attack and nothing to maintain. The published site is plain files.
- The editor runs on your machine, so you can write with no internet and publish later.
- It has real settings for search engines, image sizes and privacy notices built in, rather than as add-ons.
- GPL-3.0. Using it is completely free; building a product from its code means publishing your changes.
- Your site lives on one computer. Moving to a second machine, or working with another person, means copying a folder around.
- Anything that needs a server is out: no comments, no forms and no logins without a separate service.
sveltia/sveltia-cmsAdds a writing screen to a site whose files live in git, so it works from a phone and needs a git host rather than a desktop.
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The older and larger project that Sveltia was written to replace, with the same git-based idea and many more guides available.
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# There is no command. Download the installer for your system from: # https://getpublii.com # or take it from the releases page: # https://github.com/GetPublii/Publii/releases/latest # On a Mac you can also use Homebrew: brew install --cask publii # Then: create a site, choose a theme, write, and set up # "Server" in the site settings with your FTP or S3 details.
