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. Glyph is a static site generator that uses Github issues and GitHub Pages. It essentially converts Issues into full-fledged blog posts which yields an advanced but accessible comment system hosted through GitHub with posts created using the very popular .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  2. 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
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  3. Zox icon
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    Zox.js is a web framework for static sites and GraphQL API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. valME.io icon
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    Customizable Content Management System where users financially reward each other for content via upvotes and tips. Offers custom domain support with SSL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Static Site Boilerplate is a free, open-source tool for developers that enables a better workflow for building modern static websites. Automated build processes, a local development server, production minification and optimizations, and the latest standards for static websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  6. The Apache Sling CMS is an intuitive, full-featured Content Management System. It supports rich text editing, a component-driven page builder, content insights, a full java app server stack for developing integrations and is 100% free and open source.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Awestruct icon
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    Awestruct makes it trivially easy to create non-trivial static websites using lightweight markup languages such as AsciiDoc, Markdown, and Textile, templating languages such as Slim, Haml, and Compass (Sass), as well as UI frameworks like Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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