# Jekyll Admin

Jekyll plugin that adds a CMS-style graphical admin interface for authoring content and administering Jekyll sites.


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

## Record

### Links

- home: https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/
- repository: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin
- docs: https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Mert Kahyaoğlu
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: admin-panel
- hosting: ruby
- language: javascript
- runtime: ruby
- runtimeMin: ruby 2.7
- basedOn: jekyll

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local, always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: Bundler gem in the Jekyll Gemfile

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-02-27

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2926
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: unknown
- contributors: 34
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 2128
- dependentPackages: 5

### Sources

- urls: https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- basedOn: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runtimeMin: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/jekyll-admin.json (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- adminUi: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- contentStore: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- headlessApi: https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/api (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/self-hosting (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/jekyll/jekyll-admin/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/jekyll-admin (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/jekyll-admin (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Jekyll Admin is a Jekyll plugin that adds a CMS-style graphical interface for writing content and administering a Jekyll site. It is added to the site's Gemfile in the jekyll_plugins group, and the interface is served at /admin by the local Jekyll server started with bundle exec jekyll serve. It has two parts: a Ruby HTTP API under /_api that handles Jekyll and filesystem operations, and a JavaScript front end built on that API.

## Worth knowing

The [self-hosting page](https://jekyll.github.io/jekyll-admin/self-hosting) describes running the admin on a live site behind an nginx reverse proxy, so a live site with the admin needs a process that keeps running. The API page says the HTTP API is pre-release and may change without notice until it reaches a 1.0 release.

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