EaglePress
The facts below are what the maker publishes about EaglePress, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From EaglePress's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| EaglePress | Free | Self-hosted · Python 3 · PostgreSQL · Apache or Nginx with CGI support · Open-source CMS distributed as a downloadable ZIP |
The facts
Each one read from EaglePress's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- The maker describes EaglePress as using a single CGI router and no web framework.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Blog analytics
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Content editing
- The editor supports Markdown with live preview, auto-save, media selection, custom slugs, and revision history.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Dependencies
- The core requires psycopg2; pyquery is optional for the multilingual translation system.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- It runs on Apache or Nginx servers with CGI support.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The web installer guides users through language selection, database setup, and administrator account creation in a browser.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended deployment
- The maker describes EaglePress as self-hosted and says a single PostgreSQL database can host multiple independent EaglePress sites.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The installer offers 135 languages, with 13 described as fully translated out of the box and 122 as opt-in translations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Plugins
- The admin panel includes a plugin marketplace with one-click installation; the post describes a Polling & Voting States plugin.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- EaglePress is a self-hosted, open-source CMS and blog platform built with Python 3 and PostgreSQL.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Publishing features
- The post editor supports posts and pages, categories, tags, featured images, comments, and a publishing status workflow.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Roles
- EaglePress describes five roles: admin, editor, author, contributor, and subscriber, with different permissions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The product page describes PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 password hashing, parameterized database queries, and escaped user content.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The programmer and site owner says paid support is available by request and provides an email address for support and feature requests.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Theme customization
- custom codechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Themes
- The admin panel includes a theme marketplace with previews and one-click installation and removal.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Themes and plugins
- Users can browse and install themes and plugins from the admin panel, and preview themes before installing them.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Updates
- The dashboard updater downloads releases, verifies their SHA-512 checksum, deploys files, and runs pending database migrations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Upload limits
- The page specifies a 10 MB request-body limit and a 5 MB per-file upload limit.checked 12 Oct 2026
- What it does
- EaglePress is a self-hosted, open-source CMS and blog platform built in Python 3 with PostgreSQL.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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