Lektor
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Lektor, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Lektor's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Lektor | Free | Open source; freely available to download |
The facts
Each one read from Lektor's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Admin interface
- It provides a browser-based admin interface for editing website content on the user's computer.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Build features
- The homepage lists dependency tracking that rebuilds changed pages, image thumbnail and EXIF tools, multilingual sites, and a customizable admin interface.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Projects can be shared through version control, Dropbox, or network shares.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Content model
- Its flat-file database supports configurable content models and querying.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Native deployment targets listed in the documentation include rsync, FTP, and GitHub Pages; third-party plugins add other targets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment security
- For rsync deployment, the documentation recommends SSH configuration and an SSH agent for authentication.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Extensibility
- Lektor supports project-level plugins, and its build system provides a documented Python API for extension and integration with other apps.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The plugin catalog includes deployment options for Netlify, Qiniu, S3 with CloudFront, and Surge.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Lektor describes a workflow where developers set up the project structure and themes, while content creators fill in site content.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The project homepage describes Lektor as open source and licensed under the three-clause BSD license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Notable limitation
- The downloads page says Lektor is under heavy development and that platform support is not equally mature across platforms.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Lektor is a static website generator, content management system, and framework for creating websites.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The documentation says static sites do not run program code on the serving website, avoiding the need to keep that server-side code patched for security issues.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Static output
- Lektor runs on a local computer or build server and generates static HTML that can be uploaded to a web host or content distribution platform.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 22 Sep 2026
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