Blogging platforms and static site generators in 2026

Commercial blogging platforms and static site generators

1. 1
   Wix Wix.com

   Israeli software company

   Complete system Production-ready A small business owner wants to build and manage a site themselves with many add-on features.

   4.3k readers a month Since 2006 Commercial
2. 2
   Medium A Medium Corporation

   Online publishing platform (founded 2012)

   Complete system Production-ready You want to write and reach readers without running a site, and do not need your own brand or domain.

   4.2k readers a month Since 2012 Commercial
3. 3
   Squarespace Squarespace

   Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.

   Complete system Production-ready A small business, creative or freelancer wants a good-looking site quickly and does not need custom code.

   1.4k readers a month Since 2004 Commercial
4. 4
   WordPress.com Automattic

   Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.

   Complete system Production-ready You want WordPress without managing hosting, and may later move to self-hosted WordPress.

   814 readers a month Since 2005 Commercial

Open-source blogging platforms and static site generators

Complete systems you can adopt 2

1. 1
   Ghost TryGhost

   Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

   Complete system Production-ready You publish content and want to run paid memberships or newsletters without taking a platform cut.

   ★ 56k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
2. 2
   Halo halo-dev

   Halo 是一款强大易用的开源建站工具，从个人博客、知识库，到企业官网、在线商城，Halo 都能助您轻松实现，一站式满足您的多样化建站需求。

   Complete system Production-ready You want a WordPress-style site builder with a strong Chinese community and plugin market.

   ★ 40k GPL-3.0 Java Active, pushed today

Frameworks and platforms to build on 1

1. 1
   Gatsby gatsbyjs

   React-based framework with performance, scalability, and security built in.

   Framework or platform Production-ready You maintain an existing Gatsby site; new projects are better served by Astro or Next.js.

   ★ 56k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 13 days ago

Building blocks for your own system 1

1. 1
   Decap CMS decaporg

   A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

   Building block Production-ready You have a Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy or similar site and want a free editing UI with content kept in Git.

   ★ 19k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 2 days ago

Developer tools 6

1. 1
   Hugo gohugoio

   The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

   Developer tool Production-ready You want a fast, dependency-free generator for docs, blogs or marketing sites with thousands of pages.

   ★ 90k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
2. 2
   Jekyll jekyll

   :globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

   Developer tool Production-ready You want a simple blog or project site on GitHub Pages with the widest theme selection.

   ★ 52k MIT Ruby Active, pushed 20 days ago
3. 3
   Hexo hexojs

   A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.

   Developer tool Production-ready You want a blog generator in the JavaScript ecosystem with many ready-made themes.

   ★ 42k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 7 days ago
4. 4
   Buildawesome 11ty

   A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

   Developer tool Production-ready You want a flexible, low-JavaScript site generator and prefer configuring things yourself over a framework's conventions.

   ★ 20k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed today
5. 5
   Zola getzola

   A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org

   Developer tool Production-ready You want a Hugo-like single-binary generator with simpler templates for a blog or docs site.

   ★ 18k EUPL-1.2 Rust Active, pushed today
6. 6
   Quarkdown iamgio

   🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

   Developer tool Usable You write papers, books or presentations and want Markdown with LaTeX-like layout control.

   ★ 16k GPL-3.0 Kotlin Active, pushed yesterday

All 30 open-source blogging and static sites projects

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Open-source licenses

• Permissive: 24. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
• Strong copyleft: 4. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
• Network copyleft: 2. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.

Languages

TypeScript 9, JavaScript 5, Python 3, Go 2, Ruby 2, Rust 2, HTML 2, Java 1, Kotlin 1, Astro 1, Jupyter Notebook 1 and C# 1.