Publii
Publii allows to you build, modify and manage an unlimited number of sites from the same app with instant switching; no databases or other credentials to remember.
Features
- Desktop Publishing
- Works Offline
- Static Site Generator
- No registration required
- Desktop bases
- Ad-free
- Privacy focused
- Support for MarkDown
- Support for Themes
- Live Preview
- WYSIWYG HTML Editor
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Git Support
- WYSIWYG Support
- Syntax Highlighting
- Dark Mode
- No Tracking
- No Coding Required
- Lightweight
- Security focused
- Flat File CMS
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I love Publii because it's a local/offline self-contained desktop app with Linux support.
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- 6,154 Stars
- 409 Forks
- 235 Open Issues
- Updated Sep 2, 2024
What is Publii?
Publii allows to you build, modify and manage an unlimited number of sites from the same app with instant switching; no databases or other credentials to remember.
A clean interface, easy-to-understand editor that simplifies text styling as well as adding images, tags and other content with instant changes and live previews for comfortable, relaxed writing. Advanced SEO options to help you climb search engine rankings and get noticed.
With support for modern hosting options like Amazon S3, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud and Netlify as well as SFTP, Publii will make keeping your site updated easy. Just enter your details once, and sync your changes at the click of a button.
Comments and Reviews
Easy to use, works on every web hoster without a database.
There are a lot of easy to use content management systems that work without a database, so this is nothing special. And what should be the advantage of a CMS that runs on your local PC and you have to upload every change you make?
Reply written Jul 11, 2021
Publii is a desktop based CMS, for Linux, Mac and Windows. It has several themes and a Wordpress Importer. You can do all kinds of websites and blogs, without uploading software to a server and without needing a Database. It supports WYSIWYG, writing in blocks or a markdown editor. Choose which you want to use. It is just a checkbox.
There is nothing similar on the market, which runs on all three big platforms. It is free and open source. It comes with a handful of useful themes. For some special-themes you have to pay. Costs are around 30 Euros. It is still in Beta state, but works fine. Even the pre-releases are stable and good to use for serious projects.
Some features are still missing, like contact forms and buttons. On the other hand, it has a tool to embed the newsletter account code. There are fields for ad and banner code. Also a complete cookie consent tool is implemented. No plugins needed. It is a real great software.
I made a landing page/ business site portal with that software. You also can upload the sites to google drive, Github and Netlify. It works on every modern webspace.
So before You pay a lot of money for marketing-suites or webdesign software, try Publii.
There are some alternatives, but these are limited to Mac or Windows.
The static site builders have a real comeback. For people who do not want to learn markdown language, Publii is also a Hugo Alternative.
[Edited by AndreasKandschur, May 24]
I love Publii because it's a local/offline self-contained desktop app with Linux support.
Publii started as a very promising CMS/Static Site Generator. But the versions 0.38.0 through 0.38.3 don’t work for me. My OS is GNU/Linux, distribution Xubuntu 21.10. I tried the DEB installation file and the AppImage.
When uploading my work to the server (Publii names this syncing), there are only empty folders created. No homepage, no post I wrote, no CSS file, nothing. After uploading, an error message tells me that not all files could be created. Reading the log file, I think that some server paths seem to be wrong, although I set everything correctly, in my opinion. –––
Addendum:
Version 0.45.2 from March 2024 works flawlessly. Publii has changed from a website builder to a blogging tool, which is fine. The themes can be customized with CSS from within Publii.
According to my attempts, the upload via FTP did not work with some web hosters. Finally, I found a web host that worked.
I don’t know how to create pages, only blog articles. This should be optimized.
What I see as an advantage is that you can write your posts without an internet connection and then upload and publish them at a later date.
Even with fast net, uploading/updating a web site through an online app is much slower than doing the same thing in an offline app
It's an excellent, straightforward app for creating a static website. It's very easy to use and was a good choice to use for my Rpi nginx site.
it's one of the most beautiful and most user friendly software under GPL license. It has limitations but also advantages over WordPress and similar CMS solutions.
Limitations, in deed. From version 0.36.0 to 0.38.1, there seems to have been some change of the structure. Anyway, after fresh install, I could not open my custom theme, all the posts were gone and so on. Fortunately, I had a recent upload to my server. Is that what you call user-friendlyness?
And what should be the advantages over a more popular CMS? You did not name one of them.
Reply written Jul 11, 2021