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Jekyll Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Jekyll
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AppSignal
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React
Discontinued The library for web and native user interfaces. [Moved to: https://github.com/react/react] (by facebook)
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WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.
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pages-gem
A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages
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SaaSHub
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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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gutenberg
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better Jekyll alternative or higher similarity.
Jekyll discussion
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-10-03.
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Managing private data from the web securely on AWS
My bookmarks have been public since 1998, and the previous version, bookmarks-v3.0, was a static site generated by Jekyll and published on GitHub Pages: it cost nothing, and for a list of public links it was good enough. The criterion stayed the same, spending as little as possible, but with a new constraint: the data has to stay private. Keeping it private takes two things: pages that ask for the data only after the login, and hosting that protects those pages. v3.0 has neither:
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Setting up a hugo static site hosted with Porkbun
This is a static site generated with hugo with the PaperMod theme. I wanted an easy to use static site generator. I considered Jekyll and believe it to be a good choice for static sites. There seemed to be slightly more themes I liked with hugo so I went with that. That's a pretty superficial choice but I also don't plan on hacking on the site generation itself so I was agnostic to the Go versus Ruby choice.
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So, you want to vibecode a linkblog?
First of all, I modified my publishing programs to keep a (local) copy of each link published modulePublicationCache and then I thought about using it for my linkblog. I like very much jekyll for a blog and I requested to some AIs (mainly Qwen and Gemini) to help me to develop a blog based on the links I has posted the previous day, prepare a list with them, and prepare a Jekyll post. I also requested to set up a site, following my 'corporative' look and feel from my other sites and, voilà!
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Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo... or not
I started this blog on WordPress. After several years, I decided to migrate to Jekyll. I have been happy with Jekyll so far. It's based on Ruby, and though I'm no Ruby developer, I was able to create a few plugins.
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Introducing Ⓜ️ Meddler! A Medium Export Converter
So, I created Ⓜ️ Meddler, a command-line tool and website that will take the .ZIP of your export that Medium gives you and turn it into clean, portable Markdown formats for Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, or Astro.js.
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Introducing: Postwave
After writing your posts in Markdown you can then display them however you'd like on your site through the built in Postwave Ruby client. This is where Postwave differs from static blog engines like Jekyll or Hugo which take the Markdown posts and generate a site for you.
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Create your own personal website for free — A guide to using GitHub Pages
Jekyll Official Website
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How to Build a Python MCP Server to Consult a Knowledge Base
But that's not the case. The blog is a simple static generated website using Jekyll, it is built and served through GitHub Pages. With that in mind it makes more sense to use tools and leverage tool calling.
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Front up with front matter
And apparently it's front matter, not frontmatter?
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I Tried 15 of the Best Documentation Tools — Here’s What Actually Works in 2025
Jekyll is one of the oldest and most established static site generators. It’s tightly integrated with GitHub Pages, making deployment super easy.
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A note from our sponsor - AppSignal
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Jekyll is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Jekyll is Ruby.
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