PieCrust
Python static website generator that bakes text-file sites into HTML, with an optional flat-file CMS.
bolt80.com/piecrust/repositorydocs
PieCrust is a Python static website generator and flat-file CMS. Its homepage says all site content and configuration is kept in plain text files, with no databases. It is installed with pip, and the chef command bakes the site into static HTML files that can be published with an rsync, SFTP or shell command publisher.
PieCrust can also run as a dynamic CMS behind a WSGI server, and an optional administration panel starts with chef serve --admin. Content can be imported from WordPress and Jekyll sites.
Worth knowing
The GitHub repository the support page names as the source is archived, so this record is marked discontinued. The BitBucket repository named on the same page no longer resolves.
Identity
- Status
- Discontinued1
- Maintainer
- Ludovic Chabant4
- Maintained by
- Individual
- First release
- 20149
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Always on, Static files, Dev only267
- Rendering
- Static output, On a server6
- Install with
- pip install piecrust5
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-23: Status
github.com/ludovicchabant/PieCrust2 - 2026-10-23: links, Categories, Runs as, Templating, Content storage
bolt80.com/piecrust/ - 2026-10-23: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/ludovicchabant/PieCrust2 - 2026-10-23: Maintainer, License, License model
raw.githubusercontent.com/ludovicchabant/PieCrust2/master/LICENSE.rst - 2026-10-23: Runtime, Minimum runtime, Install with
bolt80.com/piecrust/en/latest/getting-started - 2026-10-23: Rendering, Runs as
bolt80.com/piecrust/en/latest/docs/deploying - 2026-10-23: Runs as
bolt80.com/piecrust/en/latest/docs/deploying/deploy-with-werkzeug - 2026-10-23: Admin interface
bolt80.com/piecrust/en/latest/docs/admin-panel - 2026-10-23: Current major version, Last release, First release
pypi.org/pypi/PieCrust/json - 2026-10-23: links
bolt80.com/piecrust/en/latest/docs/ - 2026-10-23: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/ludovicchabant/PieCrust2/contributors - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Downloads a month
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