IndigoPress

The CMS that works for you

The publishing platform for the people mainstream tooling forgot — independent journalists, local newsrooms, trade press, niche magazines, single-expert analysts, business owners, law firms, and everyone else tired of crippling bloatware hammering their Core Web Vitals.

  • Lightning-fast pages out of the box — because SEO is how you survive.
  • Small attack surface — because you're a target.

Your hosting, your data — the minimum viable CMS for maximum impact.

Built for people who have outgrown WordPress

See it in action

A look at the administrator and two live sites running on the same database.

Why IndigoPress

WordPress compatible

Works with the WP database out-of-the-box.

Newsletter built-in

No extra fees, no third-party access to your subscriber list.

First-party analytics

Built-in stats. No cookie banners, no third-party trackers. GA still works - if you really need it.

Ready for AI

Enforce your house-style, rewrite, translate, similarity check, headline suggestions.

Edition archive

Daily snapshots of your site as a historical record.

Static-HTML speed

Pages are written to disk and served with zero PHP. CDN-class performance without caching infrastructure.

Install in three steps

Download and unzip into your webroot

Grab the latest ZIP and extract it on your server.

Run the installer from your browser

https://[your-site]/ingp/install.php

Open ingp/admin/ and sign in

Feel right at home with the familiar dashboard.

Requirements

  • PHP 8.1 or newer
  • MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.4+
  • Webserver Nginx or Apache (shared hosting OK)
  • Disk ~20 MB for IndigoPress itself + your content
  • Extensions pdo_mysql, mbstring, gd
  • Writable media/, p/, project root