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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
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eleventy 🕚⚡️
A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
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Directus
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
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gutenberg
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
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WriteFreely
A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community.
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Bolt
Discontinued Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL. (by bolt)
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Apple is increasing my cortisol levels
I don't even track the clicks, at this point the shortener is just an Apache2 container with a long config file and some shell scripts for me adding new links: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/sometimes-dropbox-is-just-ftp-b...
Previously it was YOURLS but now it's the simpler setup, the whole reason for me adding it was that Grav (which is otherwise a lovely flat-file CMS) was really bad at handling query strings in Markdown: https://getgrav.org/
Not sure if it's been patched since, will probably look into it at some point. Might either migrate from the shortener to direct links at some point, or add an intermediate page: "You are about to go to: " with some buttons.
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The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS
For a while flat-file CMSs where all the rage. I've been using Grav for a while, it is based on (markdown) files as well but also has a GUI and a comparatively large community. https://getgrav.org/
"Voted "Best Flat File CMS" in 2017, 2019, 2020 & 2021!" :-)
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Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation
If you're hell-bent on headless, I can personally recommend 11ty (https://www.11ty.dev/) and hugo (https://gohugo.io/). That said, for non-technical admins, you probably want a user interface. For that, Ghost (https://ghost.org/) and Grav (https://getgrav.org/). Or Wordpress!
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A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web
Migrating to SSG is definitely one of the options!
I do wonder what other CMSes people do enjoy, though. My blog runs on Grav, a flat file CMS that still allows me to easily keep the content in Git, while also having some dynamic content and search (and optionally an admin UI): https://getgrav.org/
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Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way
> Aether sits in the sweet spot: simple enough for content creators, flexible enough for developers, fast enough for users.
A thing that most other developers miss is that non-technical people, like (and especially) content creator,s shy away from a terminal as if it were such a plague.
Some of them don't even have the mind concept of a directory tree, from a root drive to nested ones.
Therefore, if you have to `cd` to a directory and then `npm run build` it, yeah: the CMS is developer-oriented no matter what you claim. Once your Windows customer tries to run that command (assuming they know what `cmd.exe` is) they'll run into `'npm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.`. If it's a Linux person, they may find `node` and `npm` installed, but then it's closer to a developer than the pure content creator this is trying to target.
These products seriously need to compete with the 5-minute WordPress installation. I'm no WP fan, I really don't, but I give credit to its low-friction onboarding.
> Aether stores everything as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter.
Yeah, just like GravCMS[0]. Full disclosure: I'm a Grav user.
Except that Grav has a web admin interface: now, that is more approachable to a non-technical content creator than typing commands in a terminal.
I really don't want to make my comment feel like a rant, but it's very hard to ignore that some devs entirely miss the target public they intend to approach.
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[0]: https://getgrav.org/
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My blog doesn't need quality, it needs to look like it's from the 90s
Perhaps "polish" or "a sleek, modern UI" would have been slightly better wording on my part in regards to the look, but otherwise I'm quite happy that I settled on Grav and also the idea of versioning everything in Git, alongside a CI/CD pipeline, instead of one long lived instance on the server.
Grav is pretty cool: https://getgrav.org/
- Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?
- WordPress Is in Trouble
- Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts
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Building a Simple Grav CMS Theme with Twig, PHP, and CSS
But there is a content management system that makes it easier and simpler. And this is especially true for frontend developers. It's Grav CMS.
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