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This is excellent. It's a good frontend for gathering content to deploy on static sites. Getting non-techies to write Markdown is still somewhat of a pain.

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Thought the same, but it doesn't seem like it exposes a REST API for getting at the content during a build of a static site. Seems like it's just meant as the content management part of a dynamic PHP site.

Would be interesting to see an open-source alternative to content API's like Prismic or Contentful.

you should be able to access content via API - http://getcockpit.com/docs#!api/cockpit-js

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