Documentation teams editing Markdown sites
Use Decap CMS to give writers a browser UI while keeping docs in Git and preserving review workflows.
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Skip if writers need Google Docs-style collaboration and comments inside the CMS.
Open source alternative to CloudCannon, Contentful and Sanity
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An open-source, Git-based content management system for static websites, offering a flexible editing interface.
Use Decap CMS to give writers a browser UI while keeping docs in Git and preserving review workflows.
Skip if writers need Google Docs-style collaboration and comments inside the CMS.
Content editors can update pages, blog posts, and images without learning Git commands.
Skip if your site needs complex personalization or high-volume multi-region content APIs.
Static-site teams often want non-developers to edit Markdown, frontmatter, and media without opening Git. Hosted CMS products solve the editing UI problem, but they move content into an external system and add API dependency, pricing, and migration concerns.
For documentation sites, marketing sites, and Jamstack projects, the repository is already the source of truth. The missing piece is an editor-friendly interface that writes clean commits.
Stores content changes in the project repository, so edits flow through commits, branches, and pull requests instead of a separate content database.
Defines editable content types, fields, media paths, and editorial workflows in configuration files alongside the site.
Adds a browser-based editing interface to static sites while preserving Markdown and frontmatter file formats.
Decap CMS and Contentful both give editors a content UI, but they store content in different places. Decap CMS writes to Git; Contentful stores content in a proprietary hosted platform and serves it through APIs.
Decap CMS is better for static sites where Git should remain the source of truth. Contentful is still better for large editorial teams that need advanced content modeling, roles, localization, and managed APIs.
Yes. Decap CMS is open source under the MIT license.
Decap CMS stores content in Git, usually as Markdown, frontmatter, and media files inside the site repository.
Contentful is a hosted headless CMS with APIs and enterprise content modeling. Decap CMS is Git-based and works best when the repository should remain the content source.
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