What are the best flat-file CMS?

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Free

MIT-licensed open source project and completely free to use.

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No external DB required

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Dynamic Content Types

Define unlimited custom fields for any of your entries.

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Built-in REST API

Provides APIs organized around Representational State Transfer (REST) for working with content.

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Version Control

It is easy to version control all content in Flextype with GIT or any other Version Control System.

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Tokenized API

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Flexible

Simple but powerful Core API's.

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Super Fast

Elegance architecture and built-in smart cache.

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Same CMS repackaged

Same CMS that got regurgitated over and over for years.

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One of the great advantages is that Flextype is a flat file CMS, if you need to change hosting providers you can simply zip up your website content and extract it somewhere else, without the messy database exports. It also means you can define custom fields for any of your entries and it is easy to edit goi...
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Recommended 8 months ago
In total it was hard to figure out how to use it in the beginning, but after you get hang of it, it gets very pleasant to work with
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Easy install, easy handling very minimalism but powerful.
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