Built to support the work
Pages, posts, menus, comments, media, and reusable blocks live in a system that aims to feel steady and understandable instead of noisy and over-automated.
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Hudson
A code-first publishing system with real editorial intent.
Welcome to Hudson
For people who still want to build websites with purpose.
Hudson is a calm publishing system for writers, designers, and developers who want structure, readable templates, and a site that keeps its shape instead of dissolving into a page-builder canvas.
What Hudson Is
A publishing system that stays inspectable.
Hudson is designed for people who want a durable content system without surrendering the character of the site. It keeps content management practical while leaving design, markup, and structure in the hands of the people shaping the experience.
The site keeps its shape
Hudson respects the idea that a website should have intentional structure. Presentation is not something to be negotiated every time content changes.
Templates stay close to HTML
The goal is not to invent a clever language. The goal is to make common publishing tasks feel natural to the people actually building the site.
What It Is Not
Hudson has a point of view, and that means it says no to some things.
The intent here is not nostalgia for its own sake. It is a deliberate attempt to protect clarity, authorship, and design from tools that flatten everything into the same experience.
Layout is not the editor's job by default
Hudson does not try to replace frontend development with drag-and-drop composition.
You should be able to understand your site
Themes, content, and structure are meant to remain legible to the people responsible for them.
It protects presentation by giving it boundaries
Hudson treats strong visual systems as something worth preserving, not something to dissolve into endless controls.
The direction is already clear
Hudson is still growing, but the ambition is concrete: stronger workflows, better themes, thoughtful plugins, and durable publishing tools.
Templates With Intent
Simple enough to read, structured enough to trust.
Hudson templates are meant to feel familiar if you already think in HTML. They focus on the publishing concerns a real site needs, without trying to bury the structure underneath abstraction.
Basic post output
<article>
<h1>{{post.title}}</h1>
<p>Published {{post.date}} by {{post.author}}</p>
{{post.content}}
</article>
Recent posts
<section>
<h2>Latest Notes</h2>
{{posts last="5"}}
</section>
Reusable blocks
<aside class="signup-note">
{{block sidebar-signup}}
</aside>
Menus
<nav aria-label="Primary">
{{menu primary-navigation}}
</nav>
Why This Direction Matters
There is still room for publishing systems with taste.
Hudson is built around the belief that authors, structure, strong themes, sensible admin tools, and good markup still matter. It wants to be editorial without becoming precious, flexible without becoming shapeless, and modern without forgetting why people loved making websites in the first place.