About PocoCMS: Build fast websites, fast

PocoCMS is the fastest way to turn your words and pictures into a full-featured informational or documentation website. It is a static site generator, a command-line program specializing in creating high-performance, secure sites that don't require database interactivity.

There are a lot of very good static site generators. Only PocoCMS can generate complete SEO-enabled site with header, navbar, sidebar, and footer with no previous knowledge. after you've written

PocoCMS advantages

• Near-zero learning curve: None of the other static site generators we've used let you do this: Create a simple Markdown file, then instantly create a full website from it. They all seem to need you to know Ruby or Python or NPM. A lot of them require some kind of odd _index.md file or build a theme from scratch before you can get anything done. All PocoCMS needs is a directory with one or more Markdown files in it.
• Free and open source PocoCMS is free and MIT-licensed. It costs nothing to try.
• Extremely high performance web pages using the PocoCMS theme framework have very little overhead. That makes them fast to load, which helps SEO and your customers's sanity.
• Military-grade security: Because a PocoCMS site is pure HTML and has no database, it is as safe as a site can be.
• Keep your themes! You may not know this, but many web hosting sites own the look and feel of your site. They won't allow you to use their themes if you choose to move to another provider.
• PocoCMS is single executable file: Just download the Poco executable file, put it on your path, and you're good to go. No installer is required.
• Built-in SEO: You don't need plugins or any special knowledge to supercharge your site's SEO. PocoCMS has it right out of the box.
• Nothing else to install: Many static site generators won't work without Ruby or Python installed. PocoCMS is completely self-contained.
• Old-school simplicity: PocoCMS doesn't require Javascript frameworks, elaborate build systems, CSS preprocessors, or package managers. Just Markdown and, if you want to edit themes, some CSS and HTML.
• Lightweight pages that work on older web browsers: PocoCMS was designed to make a free press more accessible to everyone, including people with limited bandwidth or whose phones are a couple generations behind. Most themes made using the theme framework work well without Javascript and on older browsers.
• Markdown works on all parts of the page You can create themes, including headers and footers, using Markdown.
• Scriptable: Because PocoCMS is a command-line utility, you can mass-produce sites or mass-update pages using shell scripts.

PocoCMS limitations

No self-updating PocoCMS doesn't include a database. That means it doesn't natively support comments, data entry forms of any kind, or any other way for users to update information. Only you can change the site. It is pure HTML; there's no PHP running it like WordPress or Python like Django or PY4WEB.

Content editing is manual For the moment, there's no web interface to create, edit, and format articles. You upload a Markdown file, period.

No admin interface You make changes to PocoCMS themes simply by editing files. So your boss won't see you twiddling knobs and dials behind an impressive user interface.