# Carew

Static site and blog generator that builds Markdown pages into HTML with Twig layouts.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/carew/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://carew.github.io/
- repository: https://github.com/carew/carew
- docs: https://carew.github.io/documentation.html

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Grégoire Pineau
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2013
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: twig
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: composer create-project carew/boilerplate

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2017-05-24

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 86
- packagistDownloads: 853
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 8
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: 23
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 23
- dependentPackages: 8

### Sources

- status: https://github.com/carew/carew/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- status: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew (read 2026-10-23)
- status: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/carew/carew.json (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://carew.github.io/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/carew/carew/blob/master/doc/pages/documentation.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/carew/carew/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://carew.github.io/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://carew.github.io/ (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://carew.github.io/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://carew.github.io/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://github.com/carew/carew/blob/master/doc/pages/documentation.md (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/carew/carew/blob/master/doc/pages/documentation.md (read 2026-10-23)
- templating: https://github.com/carew/carew/blob/master/doc/pages/documentation.md (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew/tags (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew/tags (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew/tags (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/carew/carew/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/carew/carew.json (read 2026-10-23)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/carew/carew.json (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/carew%2Fcarew (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/carew%2Fcarew (read 2026-10-25)
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/carew/carew/stats.json (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Carew is a static site and blog generator written in PHP, forked from Balrog. Pages and blog posts are Markdown files that start with a YAML front matter block, and Twig layouts render them into HTML. The project is installed with Composer through a boilerplate project, and its build command fills a web directory that any static web server can host.

## Worth knowing

The [README](https://github.com/carew/carew/blob/master/README.md) states that the project is dead and suggests another static site generator instead. The repository is archived on GitHub, and the Packagist package is marked abandoned.

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