Octopress Alternatives

Octopress is described as 'Framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Octopress for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Octopress alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Octopress are Ghost, Jekyll, Blogger and Grav.

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  1. Frog icon
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    Frog is a static web site generator written in Racket.

    You write content in Markdown or Scribble. You generate files. To deploy, you push them to a GitHub Pages repo (or copy them to Amazon S3, or whatever).

    Posts get a variety of automatic blog features.

    You can also create n.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Gridsome icon
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    Gridsome is a free & open source Vue JS powered framework for building websites & apps that are fast by default.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. MiddleMan icon
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    Middleman is a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. Check out middlemanapp.com for detailed tutorials, including a getting started guide. You can also follow @middlemanapp for updates.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  4. Mixcore CMS icon
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    💮 Mixcore CMS is an open-source modular, multi-tenant application framework built on top of ASP.NET Core (Dotnet Core). It is a completed open source ASP.NET Core (Dotnet Core) CMS solution. https://mixcore.org.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5.  1 like

    PieCrust is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels. Simple, beautiful, and yummy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • PHP
     
  6. ButterCMS icon
     2 likes

    Butter is a headless CMS and Blog Engine built for developers. Add to your app in minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Gila CMS icon
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    Gila CMS is an open source content management system. Made with PHP7 and MySQL. You can use it for your blog, web store and personalise it for your business needs.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Hydejack icon
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    Hydejack is a Jekyll theme with JavaScript powers, combining the best of static sites and modern web apps. It features a suite of JavaScript that makes the page feel like an app, without sacrificing backwards-compatibility, page-load speed or SEO.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Jekyll
     
  9. Jas CMS icon
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    Jas CMS is a free, small website engine written in Java, licensed under GNU GPL 3. It produces static content without the need of any databases or server-side scripting languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Java Mobile
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  10.  1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Tclssg icon
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    Tclssg is a static site generator with template support written in Tcl. It is intended to make it easy to manage a small to medium-sized website with an optional blog, one with under about 2000 pages. Tclssg uses Markdown for content formatting, Bootstrap 3 for layout (with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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