Jekyll AlternativesBlog Publishing Tools & Static Site Generators like Jekyll

Jekyll is described as 'Simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server' and is a very popular Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Jekyll for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Jekyll alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Jekyll are Ghost, Drupal, Hugo and Astro Web Framework.

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  1. WordPress icon
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    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

    154 WordPress alternatives

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    • Cloudron
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
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  2. Ghost icon
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    The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.

    291 Ghost alternatives

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    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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  3. Drupal icon
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    Open source CMS with modular architecture, structured content support, and thousands of modules for extensibility. Offers custom themes, robust security, integration capabilities, starter distributions, active community support, and is free under the GPL license with no vendor lock-in.

    214 Drupal alternatives

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    • PHP
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  4. Hugo icon
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    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.

    118 Hugo alternatives

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  5. Grav icon
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    Grav is an easy to use, yet powerful, opensource CMS that requires no database. In a nutshell, installing Grav is a matter of unzipping the file. It is fast, has sophisticated caching, and a light footprint for optimal performance.

    197 Grav alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  6. EmDash CMS icon
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    Full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare featuring extensible architecture, sandboxed plugins in Worker isolates, WordPress migration, visual schema builder, role-based access, rich text editing, AI integration, media management, and open source deployment.

    58 EmDash CMS alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Typescript
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  7. WriteFreely icon
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    WriteFreely is an open-source, minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform. It was built for and by Write.as and can be used to power a similar community or just a single blog.

    55 WriteFreely alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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  8. Gatsby icon
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    Gatsby provides development teams an open source frontend framework for creating dynamic, optimized websites and a cloud platform for delivering them on a blazing fast edge network.

    112 Gatsby alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • React
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Simpler static site generator.

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    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • FreeBSD
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  10. Zola icon
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    Everything you need to make a static site engine in one binary.

    53 Zola alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Nuxt.js icon
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    Nuxt is an open source framework that makes web development intuitive and powerful.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Vue.js
    • Nuxt.js
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