About Masthead
Masthead is an open-source publishing platform for blogs, websites, and people who just want a good place to publish.
It gives you a simple way to create and manage a website without having to build a CMS or maintain a server yourself. Write your pages and posts, choose a theme, connect your domain, and publish.
A different kind of CMS
Masthead is built around publishing content rather than building pages.
You can write in Markdown or HTML, organise your posts with tags, and manage your site’s content from one place. Your content stays separate from the way your site looks, so you can change themes without having to start over.
It’s deliberately simpler than a traditional CMS, while still giving you the flexibility to make your site your own.
Themes that do more
In Masthead, a theme isn’t just a collection of colours and fonts.
Themes control how your website looks, how its pages are structured, and how you work with your content. This means a theme can be designed specifically for a blog, a publication, a company website, a personal site, or something completely different.
You can use an existing theme or create your own.
Your own website
Masthead supports custom domains, so your site can live at your own address.
Masthead handles the publishing infrastructure, including HTTPS, while you focus on writing and maintaining your content.
Your site is yours to customise, and Masthead is designed so that the underlying content isn’t tied to a particular theme.
Open source
Masthead is open source and can be self-hosted.
Developers can create themes, customise the platform, and run Masthead themselves. If you’d rather not manage the infrastructure, you can use the hosted version instead.
Who is Masthead for?
Masthead is for anyone who wants to publish a website without taking on all the complexity that usually comes with running one.
That might be:
- A personal blog
- A small business website
- A developer or portfolio site
- An independent publication
- A documentation or content site
- A completely custom website
The idea is simple: publishing should be the easy part.