Spinal
Best scheduled publishing for a Markdown marketing blog
What Spinal is
Spinal is a hosted CMS for the Markdown in a GitHub repository, built around written marketing content: a WYSIWYG editor, draft and scheduled statuses, and optional kanban and calendar power-ups. Team members sign up with email and password, and it lists Eleventy, Astro, Hugo, Jekyll, Docusaurus, and a dozen other generators.
It is one $39 per month plan with a five-member minimum, GitHub-only, and while Authors cannot publish, there is no approval flow beyond that role split. Copy outside Markdown is out of scope.
Why it is number 14
Scheduling and a content calendar for a Markdown blog. $39/mo with a five-member minimum.
Pros
- Scheduling and a content calendar for a blog team
- Editors sign in with email, no GitHub accounts
- Hosted in the EU, no CMS code in your site
Cons
Skip it if one of these is a deal-breaker.
- $39/mo with a 5-member minimum, card required for the trial
- Markdown content only, GitHub only
- Role split, but no per-edit review
Pricing
Pro $39/mo (5 members minimum, $4 per extra member; 1,000 entries, 10 collections); power-ups $9/mo each; 7-day trial, card required.
- Model
- Hosted Markdown CMS
- Setup
- Connect GitHub, pick folders
- Review flow
- Roles only, no approval
- Price
- $39/mo
Prices are what spinalcms.com printed on . Check before you buy.
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