PieCrust Alternatives

PieCrust is described as 'Static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels. Simple, beautiful, and yummy' and is a CMS tool in the business & commerce category. There are more than 25 alternatives to PieCrust for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best PieCrust alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PieCrust are Ghost, Jekyll, Grav and DEV Community.

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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.

    89 VuePress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Vue.js
     
  2. Metalsmith icon
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    An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator for NodeJS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Octopress icon
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    Octopress is a 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.

    80 Octopress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Jekyll
     
  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.

    248 Lavalite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  5. Flatpress icon
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    FlatPress is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to work. You don’t need MySQL because FlatPress stores all of its content on text files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Softaculous
     
  6. Craft CMS icon
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    Content management system built on Yii PHP Framework.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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.

    363 BlogMaker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Staticman icon
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    Static sites with superpowers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. blogstrap.py icon
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    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  10. 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
     
  11. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • RubyGems
     
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