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The best Static Site Generator alternative to WordPress is Grav, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to WordPress and nine of them are Static Site Generators so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Static Site Generator alternatives to WordPress are Jekyll, Hugo, Wagtail CMS and Site.pro.

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  1. Grav icon

    Grav

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    Grav is a powerful and easy to use open source CMS written in PHP and based on the Symfony web application framework. Compared to other content management systems, it is a fast, simple and flexible file-based platform. This means that Grav doesn't use a database like MySQL or MongoDB, but stores all the information in YAML files. This also means that the learning curve is pretty straightforward, there are less security risks, and the websites are usually pretty fast. There's also a marketplace with themes and plugins, but don't expect to see as many as for WordPress, Joomla or Drupal.

    191 Grav alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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    Jekyll

     128 likes

    Jekyll is a static site generator (SSG) created in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, the founder of GitHub. It's coded in Ruby and requires NodeJS. It's very different from WordPress on many points. For starters, it's a static site generator, which means it takes your text and generates static HTML pages for your site (with no database).

    Like Grav, it's pretty fast and simple to use, but it requires a bit more technical knowledge as you don't have access to an admin dashboard to manage your website. One advantage, though, is that you can use the free hosting provided by GitHub Pages with Jekyll.

    135 Jekyll alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Hugo icon

    Hugo

     93 likes

    Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages. Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more.

    109 Hugo alternatives

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    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    Site.pro

    White label tool for hosting providers and site owners featuring multilingual editing in 40+ languages, website import, modern templates, responsive layouts, drag-and-drop editor, billing panel support, blog and store builder, an...

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  6. Wagtail CMS icon

    Wagtail CMS

     11 likes

    Wagtail is a content management system built on Django. It's focused on user experience, and offers precise control for designers and developers.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Django
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  7. Site.pro icon

    Site.pro

     50 likes

    White label tool for hosting providers and site owners featuring multilingual editing in 40+ languages, website import, modern templates, responsive layouts, drag-and-drop editor, billing panel support, blog and store builder, and direct publishing capabilities.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Markdown Ninja icon

    Markdown Ninja

     4 likes

    Markdown Ninja is the easiest way to publish Markdown-based websites and newsletters. The days of hacking a static site generator, a broken theme, a complex CI/CD pipeline and a cloud platform with unlimited billing to publish a website are long gone!

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  10. Datenstrom Yellow icon

    Datenstrom Yellow

     11 likes

    Yellow is for people who make websites. It's a flat-file content management system. Everything is made of files and folders. You can create web pages, blogs, wikis. There's support for Dropbox, Markdown and static content generation.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    WebStacks

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    WebStacks is a CMS and Static Site Generator (SSG) that enables fast, secure website creation. With a drag-and-drop interface and Bootstrap integration, WebStacks helps developers, agencies, and small businesses build and manage static sites quickly without complex backends.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    kewt

     1 like

    A POSIX-compliant SSG.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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