Expansive Alternatives

Expansive is described as 'Powerful web site generator that quickly creates compelling web sites with dynamic content. It uses powerful templating, scripting and tooling to provide a complete web site creation environment to accelerate your web application development' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Expansive for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Expansive alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Expansive are Ghost, Jekyll, Blogger and Grav.

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  1. VuePress icon
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    VuePress is a static site generator that uses markdown. It allows users to create content like blogs and documentation. Originally designed for Vue.js documentation, it now serves a wider user base. It emphasizes simplicity, with a minimal setup and markdown-centered structure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Vue.js
     
  2. Mataroa Blog icon
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    Blogging platform for minimalists.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. ZeroBlog icon
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    ZeroBlog - For a distributed, self publishing blogging platform ( and centralized authentication ).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • NameCoin
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • ZeroNet
    • CoffeeScript
     
  4. Lavalite icon
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    LavaLite is an open source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and Laravel web application framework. It currently supports MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB and PostgreSQL for the database backend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  5. Ucraft icon
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    Drag-and-drop editor offers customizable templates, free cloud hosting, and responsive design. Suited for landing pages, portfolios, blogs, or stores, it features e-commerce, media support, third-party integrations, SEO tools, SSL, and collaboration tools.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. BlogMaker icon
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    BlogMaker is a modern, no-code blogging platform built for creators, marketers, and businesses who want to grow their online presence. With a focus on speed, SEO, and simplicity, BlogMaker lets you launch and manage unlimited blogs under one subscription.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • BlogMaker is the most popular commercial alternative to Expansive.

    • BlogMaker is Paid and ProprietaryExpansive is Free and Open Source
  7. Staticman icon
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    Static sites with superpowers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. BardCanvas icon
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    BardCanvas is an Open Source CMS that fits perfectly for blogs/forums/social networks. It is fast (through several cache levels), heavily optimized (it wont collapse the server in high traffic conditions) and constantly improved.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Bridgetown icon
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    In a nutshell, Bridgetown is a static site generator. You give it text written in an author-friendly markup language like Markdown, and it uses layouts and templates to build a website and save the compiled HTML, CSS, and Javascript to an output folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • RubyGems
     
  10. liveSite icon
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    The enterprise website solution without the enterprise price tag. liveSite is a back-end website engine that can drive any front-end website design. It includes CMS, Blogging, eCommerce, Online Forms, Calendaring, and automated Email Campaign features all businesses and...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Backdrop CMS icon
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    Backdrop CMS is a simple, lightweight, and easy to use Content Management System used to build attractive, professional websites. Use it for everything from a single-administrator's personal blog site, to a complex, multi-role, business e-commerce platform.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. DocPad icon
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    DocPad is a dynamic static-site generator. That is a content management system that takes content from several sources, like files on your computer, and renders them into incredibly fast static output.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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