Grav

Grav is an easy to use, yet powerful, opensource CMS that requires no database. In a nutshell, installing Grav is a matter of unzipping the file. It is fast, has sophisticated caching, and a light footprint for optimal performance.

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Open Source
Web
Self-Hosted
PHP
Markdown

Grav is an easy to use, yet powerful, opensource CMS that requires no database. In a nutshell, installing Grav is a matter of unzipping the file. It is fast, has sophisticated caching, and a light footprint for optimal performance. Content is just simple markdown files in folders, with no complicated databases to deal with. A powerful API and extensive hooks allow for plugins to extend Grav. Flexible Twig templating allows easy realization of your designs.

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Features

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions MarkDown support Self Hosted Feature Two factor authentication Flat File CMS No database needed Twig Templating

The Best 56 Grav Alternatives

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WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

Freemium Open Source

IFTTT integration Dedicated Server Hosting Facebook integration Google Plus integration Social media integration Easy importation Multi Site Management Self deployment VPS hosting
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Drupal

Content-Management Framework (CMF), Content Management System (CMS), Community and Blog software.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet Web Blackberry

Multiple languages Data export/import
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Tumblr

Micro-blogging. Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be.

Free Android iPhone iPad Web Kindle Fire Windows Phone

IFTTT integration Photo Sharing Larger character limit and archives
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Blogger

Blogger is a blog publishing service. Create your blog. Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world. Easy to use. It’s easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone. Flexible.

Freemium Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Chrome OS Web

Ad free IFTTT integration
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Ghost

Ghost is a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online publication. We power blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.

Commercial Open Source
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ProcessWire

ProcessWire is a friendly and powerful open source CMS and CMF with an exceptionally strong foundation.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted PHP

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple languages Community based Development API Custom templates Plugin API Shell integration Custom data fields Front End live editing
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Boostlog

It is a programmer's platform for programmers. You can become a member of Boostlog with the GitHub account and discuss with the developers on Boostlog by outputting the technology stack.

Free Web
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Textpattern

Textpattern is an elegant content management system that is free, open source software. Web designers, developers, publishers and bloggers love its flexibility and extensibility.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted
37 Like

Fork CMS

Fork CMS is dedicated to creating a user friendly environment to build, monitor and update your website. We take great pride in being the Content Management System of choice for beginners and professionals.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted PHP
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GetSimple CMS

GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with its best-in-class user interface, we have loaded it with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn't.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted
13 Like

Craft CMS

Craft gives you the tools to sculpt a content management experience precisely tailored to your site’s needs. Craft doesn’t make any assumptions about your content.

Freemium Web Self-Hosted

Auto update Dynamic content
10 Like

Kirby

Installing Kirby means uploading some files to your server and that's it. Blog articles, galleries, simple pages or complex product sheets – with Kirby you are not limited to a fixed data structure.

Commercial Web Self-Hosted PHP
9 Like

Websites for Trello

If you like to use Trello for personal organization (as they say, organizing everything), you will also like to have a website and control its content with Trello.

Freemium Web
7 Like

ZeroBlog

ZeroBlog - For a distributed, self publishing blogging platform ( and centralized authentication ). Source code : https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroBlog

Free Open Source Windows Linux Web Mac Python JavaScript NameCoin ZeroNet

Decentralized Distributed Html as document format
7 Like

Pagekit

A modern open source CMS. Intuitive. Modular. Flexible.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted
7 Like

October

October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. A simple and modular CMS that grows with you, with a precise and beautiful interface that comes as second nature.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac Self-Hosted PHP Laravel

Plugin API Based on Laravel
7 Like

Postleaf

Open source blogging platform with inline editing, handlebar templates and intuitive interface.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted PHP GitHub Handlebars
7 Like

Bloopist

Bloopist is a simplified blogging platform. Preview your posts as your create them. Publish to your custom domain. Drag and drop image uploads. Schedule and queue posts for publication.

Free Web
7 Like

Silvrback

Founded in 2013, Silvrback sought to provide users with a potent, minimalist writing experience that was easy to use, well-supported, and distraction-free – all at a modest price. That remains our aim today.

Commercial Web

MarkDown support WYSIWYG Support Syntax Highlighting Responsive design GitHub integration Social media integration
5 Like

Automad

Automad is a file-based flat CMS and template engine. It is designed to be fully portable without any dependencies on databases or fixed locations and doesn't require any complicated setup process.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted PHP

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The Best 56 Grav Alternatives

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