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