Gophenberg

Gophenberg is a content management system that runs as one Go binary beside a PostgreSQL database. Posts are written in the Gutenberg block editor inside a React admin at /admin, and the binary publishes them on the public site at the root. The published content is also readable through a read-only JSON API at /api/content/v1, which needs no authentication.

Themes are optional. A theme is an Astro project that reads that JSON API, and the built-in renderer serves the posts when no theme is active or the theme is down. Plugins are Go packages compiled into the binary, each with its own routes and database tables. A reference plugin serves the posts as an RSS feed.

The install guide runs the binary and PostgreSQL with Docker Compose behind a reverse proxy that holds the HTTPS certificate. The admin login cookie is marked secure, so the site needs HTTPS in front to be used.

Worth knowing

Gophenberg is below 1.0 according to its own pages. Built frontend artifacts bundle WordPress packages under GPL-2.0-or-later, so a built admin or theme carries those terms while the source stays Apache-2.0.