✅ Popular Platforms You Can Use

Platform	What it is / Highlights	How you'd use it with your static site
Ghost (self-hosted or Ghost Pro)	Ghost is a blogging platform that can act headless: you can host it somewhere and then fetch blog posts via its API. Wikipedia+2Next.js Templates+2	You write and manage posts in Ghost; then on your HTML site fetch JSON or HTML from Ghost’s API or RSS and render them.
Strapi	Open-source headless CMS (self-hosted) where you define content types and it gives you APIs. Strapi+2Medium+2	You host Strapi somewhere (a small server or cloud instance). Then your static site fetches posts via REST or GraphQL.
Netlify CMS	A free, open-source “CMS in your Git workflow” for static sites. DEV Community+1	It stores content (e.g. Markdown) in your Git repo, and you build your site from it.
Directus, Payload, Sanity, etc.	These are headless CMS platforms (some open-source) with free tiers or self-hosted options. Webstacks+3Hygraph+3Medium+3	Same pattern: manage content in the CMS, fetch via API, and render in your front end.

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⚠️ Considerations & Trade-offs

• Even “online” platforms often require hosting (for the CMS) if using self-hosted versions.

• The easier option is using a hosted CMS service (Ghost Pro, Sanity Cloud, etc.) so you don’t worry about server setup.

• You need to write a bit of front-end JavaScript (or use fetch/AJAX) to fetch and render blog data.

• You’ll have to map between CMS fields (title, excerpt, content, image) and your HTML layout.

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If you like, I can pick one platform (free or low cost) suitable for your setup, and build a demo code that shows how to fetch and show blog posts in your existing HTML site. Do you want me to suggest which platform is easiest and show you how?