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title: 'CMS Choice'
url: 'https://bluepants.dev/blog/cms-choice'
markdown: 'https://bluepants.dev/blog/cms-choice.md'
date: '2023-03-02'
description: "This ain't WordPress Eagle-eyed nerds will notice this isn't another WordPress blog. What is 'Grav'? It is billed as a flat-file CMS. Unlike WordPress, where you have to have a DB running behind the app, Grav only used Markdown files. So for simple, placeholder sites, it is perfect. I'll be trying …"
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## [CMS Choice](https://bluepants.dev/blog/cms-choice)

    2nd Mar 2023  

# This ain't WordPress

Eagle-eyed nerds will notice this isn't another WordPress blog. What is '[Grav](https://getgrav.org/)'? It is billed as a flat-file CMS. Unlike WordPress, where you have to have a DB running behind the app, Grav only used Markdown files. So for simple, placeholder sites, it is perfect. I'll be trying it out to see where it excels and fails.

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