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Direct alternatives

They do this job.

GHTryGhost/Ghost

A publishing system with newsletters and paid memberships built in.

★ 55.5kFree
PApayloadcms/payload

A full content database with a generated admin screen and API, for content that has real structure rather than being blog posts.

★ 45.3kFree
HAhalo-dev/halo

A self-hosted website and blog platform, written in Java, with a marketplace of themes and plugins.

★ 39.9kFree
DIdirectus/directus

It wraps an existing SQL database with an automatic web interface and an editing screen.

★ 38.5kFree
EL11ty/eleventy

Turns a folder of templates into a plain website with nothing running behind it.

★ 20kFree
DEdecaporg/decap-cms

An editing screen for a website whose pages live as files in a repository, where every save becomes an ordinary commit.

★ 19.4kFree
ZOgetzola/zola

One downloaded program that turns a folder of writing into a website.

★ 17.5kFree
TItinacms/tinacms

An editing panel for websites whose content lives as files in a code repository.

★ 13.8kFree
WRwritefreely/writefreely

A small self-hosted blog in one downloaded program.

★ 5.3kFree
PAhunvreus/pagescms

It is an editing screen for a website whose content lives in a git repository.

★ 4.1kFree
TOtolgee/tolgee-platform

Self-hosted localisation platform with in-context editing — the way a second-language version of an app stops being a forked codebase.

★ 4.1kFree
SVsveltia/sveltia-cms

A drop-in admin page for a file-based site that works on a phone, and reads Decap CMS's own config file — Decap has not cut a release since June 2024.

★ 3kFree
VSestruyf/vscode-front-matter

A content manager inside VS Code: every post in one list, a publishing calendar, and a health check on the post in front of you.

★ 2.5kFree
KEThinkmill/keystatic

A writing screen for the Markdown blog posts that already live in the website project, saved back as files with no database.

★ 2.5kFree
LUlumeland/lume

A static site builder with no local dependency folder.

★ 2.3kFree

Related alternatives

A second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.

HUgohugoio/hugo

Turns a folder of Markdown files into a complete website in seconds.

★ 90.1kFree
ASwithastro/astro

A web framework for content-heavy sites that produces plain HTML pages and sends almost no JavaScript.

★ 63.2kFree
MKsquidfunk/mkdocs-material

Turns a folder of Markdown files into a searchable documentation website, with every formerly sponsor-only feature now included.

★ 27.6kFree
MKmkdocs/mkdocs

Turns a folder of Markdown files into a documentation website, controlled by one settings file.

★ 22.4kFree
MDrust-lang/mdBook

Turns a folder of Markdown chapters into a searchable book-style website.

★ 22.2kFree
PEChocobozzz/PeerTube

Self-hosted video with an ActivityPub feed — the copy of your tutorials whose delivery you control.

★ 15.4kFree
PUGetPublii/Publii

A desktop program that builds a whole website on one computer and uploads the finished files.

★ 7.3kFree
QUquarto-dev/quarto-cli

One source file rendered into a web page, a PDF and a slide deck, with Python code executed inside the document.

★ 6.1kFree
REumputun/remark42

A small self-installed comment engine that adds a comment box to any page.

★ 5.6kFree
LIKovah/LinkAce

A self-hosted archive of links that tags them, searches them, and notices when one stops working.

★ 3.3kFree
FU0x2E/fusion

A small feed reader that one person runs on a machine of their own.

★ 2.2kFree
INopral/inlang

A translation system for websites that compiles each language into plain code.

★ 2kFree
ZUzuplo/zudoku

Builds a documentation site for a web service from the description it already produces.

★ 604Free
OPJonasHiltl/openchangelog

Easy to configure & self hostable Changelog Website

★ 341Free

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