Automad
Flat-file content management system and template engine, written in PHP, that stores content in text files without a database.
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Automad keeps pages in human-readable text files, so a site needs no database. Its browser-based dashboard includes a block editor and an in-page edit mode, and templates are written in Automad’s own template language and rendered on the fly. The getting started guide covers installation with Docker, with Composer or by uploading the distribution bundle, and asks for PHP 8.2 or newer with the gd, curl and zip modules. The dashboard is available in several languages.
Worth knowing
The repository license is the O’Saasy License Agreement, which forbids offering the software as a hosted or SaaS product where its main value is the software itself. The terms-of-use page says MIT and the homepage says open-source. The guide says version 1 is no longer supported, and its Composer command installs the 2.0 line, which is in beta and described there as stable and safe for production use. The terms of use state that a minimum of telemetry data is transmitted: the domain name, the Automad version and the server type.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Marc Anton Dahmen4
- Maintained by
- Individual
- First release
- 20135
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request3
- Rendering
- On a server1
- Install with
- composer create-project3
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-24: name, links, Categories, Content storage, Admin interface, Templating, Rendering
automad.org/ - 2026-10-24: links, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/marcantondahmen/automad - 2026-10-24: links, Written in, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Runs as, Install with
automad.org/getting-started - 2026-10-24: Maintainer, License
github.com/marcantondahmen/automad/blob/master/LICENSE.md - 2026-10-24: First release
api.github.com/repos/marcantondahmen/automad/commits/0.1 - 2026-10-24: Multilingual
automad.org/system - 2026-10-24: License
automad.org/getting-started/terms-of-use - 2026-10-24: Last release
repo.packagist.org/p2/automad/automad.json - 2026-10-24: Current major version
api.github.com/repos/marcantondahmen/automad/releases - 2026-10-24: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/automad/automad.json - 2026-10-24: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/marcantondahmen/automad/contributors - 2026-10-25: Packagist downloads a month
packagist.org/packages/automad/automad/stats.json