Octopress Alternatives

Octopress has been discontinued. Similar apps include WordPress, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Ghost, Blogger, Jekyll and Grav. You're spoiled for choice with CMS Tools like Octopress: we list more than 50 alternatives for self-hosting, the web, Windows, Linux and Mac.

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  1.  2 likes

    This is a simple self-hosted, lightweight, singe-user PHP blog, where you can create your own Facebook-like feed. Give read access to other people, and you can share rich text with photos including highlighted code or links.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  2. Backdrop CMS icon
     11 likes

    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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. Craft CMS icon
     16 likes

    Content management system built on Yii PHP Framework.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Lavalite icon
     6 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  5. blogstrap.py icon
     12 likes

    blogstrap.py is a simple, no frills blog content management system powered by Twitter's Bootstrap and web.py. It features most things you would come to expect from a simple blogging platform. You can browse posts by category or subcategory, see recent posts, and mark...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  6. Umbraco icon
     12 likes

    Umbraco is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
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  7. Sculpin icon
     2 likes

    Sculpin is a static site generator written in PHP. It converts Markdown files, Twig templates or standard HTML into a static HTML site that can be easily deployed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  8. uCoz icon
     22 likes

    uCoz is a free website-builder that includes hosting and a website management system. uCoz works according to the principles of Web 2.0 and allows creating of the most complicated projects with extraordinary simplicity and speed.

    281 uCoz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Staticman icon
     3 likes

    Static sites with superpowers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Moopato Website Builder is an Offline Content Management System (CMS). It runs on your local machine and not on a server. You create your content locally, build the whole site with the push of a button and then you can upload it to your hosting provider.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. Bridgetown icon
     2 likes

    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)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • RubyGems
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  12. BardCanvas icon
     2 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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