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piecrust-php/piecrust
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A lightweight CMS and static website generator.

091PHP

Since Jan 29Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare

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PieCrust is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that's all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels. Simple, beautiful, and yummy.

For more information, along with the complete documentation, visit [the official website](http://bolt80.com/piecrust/).

Quickstart
==========

[](#quickstart)

If you want to quickly give it a spin:

```
bin/chef init mywebsite
cd mywebsite
../bin/chef serve

```

It should create a new empty site in a `mywebsite` folder, and then start your default browser to show it to you. Use `chef prepare page` and `chef prepare post` to create pages and posts, and edit those in your favorite text editor.

When you're happy, run `../bin/chef bake` to generate the final static website, which you'll find in `_counter`.

Branches
========

[](#branches)

There are 2 branches:

- `default` (in `mercurial`) or `master` (in `git`): that's the development branch. Everything in there is the very latest stuff, which means it may be broken, it may have backwards incompatible changes, and probably has secret undocumented features.
- `stable` (in `mercurial`) or `git-stable` (in `git`): that's the, well, stable branch. It has all the latest bug-fixes, but new features and breaking changes are only introduced after some time being tested in the main branch. Also, this branch has version tags whenever changes are committed.

Changes
=======

[](#changes)

Check out the CHANGELOG file for new features, bug fixes and breaking changes.

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 87.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/48d33fe722080d3b33af92bcef5942f2fc03a2ca1e53d0909035225f53139443?d=identicon)[giftnuss](/maintainers/giftnuss)

---

Top Contributors

[![ludovicchabant](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/470376?v=4)](https://github.com/ludovicchabant "ludovicchabant (982 commits)")[![giftnuss](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/64424?v=4)](https://github.com/giftnuss "giftnuss (115 commits)")[![tomaz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/77294?v=4)](https://github.com/tomaz "tomaz (8 commits)")[![cbenard](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/235748?v=4)](https://github.com/cbenard "cbenard (6 commits)")[![midnightmonster](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/57948?v=4)](https://github.com/midnightmonster "midnightmonster (3 commits)")[![olegcherr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3730074?v=4)](https://github.com/olegcherr "olegcherr (3 commits)")[![gerundt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/497880?v=4)](https://github.com/gerundt "gerundt (2 commits)")[![jmcastagnetto](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/364668?v=4)](https://github.com/jmcastagnetto "jmcastagnetto (1 commits)")[![sdsalyer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/596870?v=4)](https://github.com/sdsalyer "sdsalyer (1 commits)")

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