Jekyll Alternatives

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. Vontigo icon
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    Vontigo is an open-source CMS built with SvelteKit, featuring AI-powered (ChatGPT) content generation. With fast page loads and seamless routing, Vontigo offers a user-friendly interface with customizable themes and templates.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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  2. shokunin icon
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    A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator written in Rust 🦀.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
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  3. Verless icon
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    verless (pronounced like serverless) is a Static Site Generator designed for Markdown-based content with focus on simplicity and performance. It reads your Markdown files, applies your HTML templates and renders them as a website.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Bedrock icon
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    Bedrock is a tool to efficiently work together, document HTML/CSS components, and provide a single source of truth for what an application should look like.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Pika.page icon
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    Pika is a pretty good blogging platform by the people at Good Enough. It’s pretty and easy and pretty easy. You should try it!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  6. 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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  7. PureBlog icon
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    Pure Blog is a simple, flat-file blogging platform with a Markdown-first editor and a lightweight admin area. It stores posts and pages as Markdown files on disk—no database required.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  8. ORCHID icon
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    ORCHID is a tool that allows you to quickly write simple but powerful websites and applications. Provided as a package for Laravel, you can easily integrate it as a third-party component using Composer.

    278 ORCHID alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Laravel
    • PHP
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  9. WP2Static icon
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    Static site generator for WordPress.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
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  10. Hyde icon
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    Hyde is a static website generator powered by Python & Django. Hyde supports all the Django template tags & filters and even has a few of its own. The built-in web server + auto-generator provide instant refresh and unlimited flexibility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    yst is a tool for generating a static website by filling string templates with data taken from YAML or CSV text files or SQLite3 file based databases. This approach combines the speed, security, and ease of deployment of a static website with the flexibility and...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haskell
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  12. CMS.js icon
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    CMS.js is fully client-side, Javascript site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol' HTML, CSS and Javascript to generate your website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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