What is SanityPress?

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Mitchell Christ
Mitchell Christ

SanityPress is a modern starter template, with a CMS built right in, to help you get a website up and running in no time.

Like WordPress, but... you get the idea 😉

Origin Story

As a developer at a digital marketing agency, my role demands the creation of scalable and maintainable websites that can adapt to rapidly changing environments. Additionally, the ability to build and replicate websites swiftly is crucial.

After numerous iterations and rounds of feedback, SanityPress was born.

a newborn wearing a Deadpool suit diligently typing on a Macbook in an old cluttered dirty New York apartment room, stacks and piles of paper surrounded by him, a black grandma wearing sunglasses sleeping on the couch in the distant background, neon signs "Web Dev" in the background, IMAX 4k film still from a Marvel movie

Superpowers of SanityPress

Visual Editing (No-code!)

Easily add new sections and preview edits side-by-side—all without having to write a single line of code.

SEO-Friendly

Built-in SEO optimization ensures your site ranks high on search engines, bringing more traffic to your content.

Responsive Design

Automatically adapts your site to look great on any device, providing an optimal viewing experience for your visitors.

Customizable Building Blocks

Choose from a wide variety of pre-designed components to quickly craft beautiful pages. Dig into the code to further customize to your desired designs.

The Tech Stack

Frontend: Next.js and Tailwind CSS

Built with Next.js (App router) and Tailwind CSS, SanityPress includes a number of pre-built components that are fully responsive and fully customizable.

Did I mention, how fast? Perfect Lighthouse scores on desktop? (And nearly perfect on mobile, too)

Perfect Lighthouse scores on desktop
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Backend: Sanity and Vercel

Sanity is used as the backend to store all content—anything from navigation menus, to blog posts and redirects. Also fully customizable.

The Villains The Competition

There are a number of other similar Sanity starter templates built on the Next.js framework that offer slightly different solutions and approaches.

HULL

Probably one of the most well-known projects with built-in Shopify integration.

Unfortunately, this project hasn't been updated since 2022 and is already collecting some dust.

Definitely worth checking out, though.

Personal Website

A beautiful website and very close contender to SanityPress, this starter template comes included with both Visual Editing and an embedded Studio.

Would be nice to see some screenshots of the Studio, but nonetheless enough to get a website up quickly.

For screenshots of SanityPress's studio, take a look here 👀

Clean Next.js + Sanity app

Although a simpler alternative, this official template is featured on Sanity's template directory listing.

However, it too is yet to update to the Next.js App Router. The Sanity Studio is also still on an outdated version (v3.28.0).

Start Building Next.js Websites Now

Ready to try out the latest SanityPress? Head on over to the repo, give us a star 🌟, and get SanityPressin'.

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