Open-source cms software
601 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged cms, ranked by how closely cms is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
601 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| avitorio/outstatic Outstatic is a Git-based CMS that provides a dashboard for writing, editing, and publishing Markdown and MDX content stored in a GitHub rep… | 93 | 3169 | active |
| ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer ONLYOFFICE Groups (formerly Community Server) is a free, open-source self-hosted collaboration platform combining document management, proj… | 67 | 3168 | active |
| craigary/nobelium Nobelium is a static blog template built on Notion as a headless CMS and Next.js, designed for one-click deployment on Vercel. It offers fa… | 40 | 3151 | active |
| walinejs/waline Waline is a self-hostable comment system for websites and blogs, consisting of a lightweight JavaScript client and a backend server deploya… | 93 | 3125 | active |
| openRin/Rin Rin is an open-source, serverless blog platform built entirely on Cloudflare's developer platform (Workers, D1, R2, Pages), written in Type… | 66 | 3069 | active |
| CMB2 CMB2 is a PHP developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms in WordPress. It manages meta for posts, terms, users, a… | 98 | 3013 | stable |
| Silex Silex is a free/libre open-source visual website builder for creating static sites with dynamic data, built on GrapesJS. It exports standar… | 90 | 2986 | active |
| sveltia/sveltia-cms Sveltia CMS is a free, open-source, Git-based headless CMS for Jamstack sites, built as a modern rewrite and successor to Netlify/Decap CMS… | 95 | 2980 | active |
| Licoy/wordpress-theme-puock Puock is a high-quality, responsive WordPress theme written in PHP with light/dark mode, no-refresh (pjax) loading, and many built-in featu… | 97 | 2974 | active |
| 88250/symphony Symphony (Sym) is a modern open-source community platform written in Java that combines forum, Q&A, BBS, social network, and blog functiona… | 65 | 2944 | active |
| jekyll/jekyll-admin A Jekyll plugin that adds a CMS-style graphical admin interface for authoring content and managing Jekyll sites. It consists of a Ruby-base… | 30 | 2926 | active |
| iamxjb/winxin-app-watch-life.net An open-source WeChat Mini Program frontend that connects a WordPress site to WeChat, syncing posts, categories, comments, and media into a… | 52 | 2911 | active |
| magicblack/maccms10 Apple CMS (MacCMS) v10 is an open-source PHP+MySQL content management system built on the ThinkPHP 5 framework, designed for quickly buildi… | 92 | 2908 | active |
| Mavo Mavo is an HTML-based language and JavaScript library for building small-scale data-driven web applications by writing only HTML and CSS, w… | 27 | 2865 | active |
| ZKEACMS ZKEACMS is an open-source, WYSIWYG visual content management system built on ASP.NET Core (.NET 8/9) with drag-and-drop page and layout des… | 75 | 2842 | active |
| WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards A set of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) that enforce WordPress coding conventions in PHP code. It integrates with PHPCS, IDEs, and CI pipel… | 86 | 2834 | active |
| Misago Misago is a full-featured, modern forum application built with Django, Python, and HTMX, designed to be fast, scalable, and responsive. It … | 88 | 2777 | active |
| thechangelog/changelog.com The open source CMS that powers changelog.com, built with Elixir and the Phoenix framework on top of PostgreSQL. It is a production, in-the… | 75 | 2770 | active |
| Nikola Nikola is a Python-based static website and blog generator that turns content in formats like reStructuredText, Markdown, and Jupyter noteb… | 77 | 2750 | stable |
| JPressProjects/jpress JPress is an open-source, WordPress-like content management system written in Java, used to power 100,000+ websites including government ag… | 23 | 2733 | stable |
| Naccl/NBlog NBlog is a self-hosted, front-end/back-end separated personal blog system built with Spring Boot (Java) and Vue. It includes a public blog … | 47 | 2704 | active |
| flaskbb/flaskbb FlaskBB is a classic self-hosted forum software written in Python using the Flask framework. It provides community discussion features such… | 86 | 2667 | active |
| xLog xLog is an open-source, decentralized blogging platform built on the Crossbell blockchain, where posts are stored on-chain. It serves as a … | 10 | 2664 | active |
| Pintree-io/pintree Pintree is a self-hostable Next.js application that converts browser bookmarks into a searchable, navigable directory website. It supports … | 24 | 2594 | active |
| liukuo362573/YiShaAdmin YiShaAdmin is an open-source admin management system built on .NET Core MVC with a clean Bootstrap/jQuery UI. It provides role-based permis… | 32 | 2578 | active |
| WordPress Update System A PHP library that adds custom automatic update checking to WordPress plugins and themes hosted outside the official WordPress.org reposito… | 79 | 2567 | stable |
| getgridea/gridea Gridea is a cross-platform desktop client for writing and managing static blogs, built with Electron and Vue. It provides a Markdown editor… | 23 | 10229 | maintenance |
| estruyf/vscode-front-matter Front Matter is a headless CMS implemented as a Visual Studio Code extension, letting users create, edit, preview, and manage Markdown cont… | 95 | 2547 | active |
| OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter Open Live Writer is an open source fork of Windows Live Writer, a WYSIWYG blog editor for composing, previewing, and publishing blog posts … | 81 | 2537 | active |
| Squidex/squidex Squidex is an open-source (MIT) headless CMS and content management hub built with ASP.NET Core and CQRS, exposing content and assets throu… | 93 | 2507 | active |
| owen0o0/WebStack A WordPress theme that turns a WordPress site into a WebStack-style navigation/bookmark directory site. It supports two-level categories, a… | 26 | 2474 | active |
| frappe/builder Frappe Builder is a low-code, Figma-like visual website builder that lets users design and instantly publish fast, responsive web pages. It… | 94 | 2432 | active |
| Thinkmill/keystatic Keystatic is a Git-based content management system with a first-class admin UI and a fully typed TypeScript API for defining content models… | 75 | 2428 | active |
| nanxiaobei/hugo-paper Paper is a simple, clean, and customizable theme for the Hugo static site generator, written primarily in CSS. It offers light/dark modes, … | 73 | 2415 | active |
| react-page/react-page ReactPage is a highly customizable WYSIWYG content editor for the browser, built with React and TypeScript. It lets developers define custo… | 78 | 9537 | maintenance |
| drush-ops/drush Drush is a command-line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal, providing commands for managing Drupal sites such as installing modu… | 97 | 2376 | stable |
| primocms/primo Primo is an open-source, self-hosted visual CMS that represents entire sites as both a database and a folder of plain files (Svelte compone… | 98 | 2371 | active |
| Gmeek Gmeek is an ultra-lightweight blog framework that runs entirely on GitHub, using GitHub Issues for writing posts, GitHub Actions for buildi… | 46 | 2371 | active |
| cnodejs/nodeclub Nodeclub is an open-source community/forum system built with Node.js, MongoDB, and Redis, powering the CNode Chinese Node.js community. It … | 53 | 9278 | maintenance |
| Artalk Artalk is a self-hosted, open-source comment system for blogs, websites, and web applications, with a lightweight Vanilla JS client and a G… | 83 | 2344 | active |
| Locomotive CMS Locomotive is an open-source Ruby on Rails CMS platform for creating, publishing, and editing websites, with native multi-site support and … | 44 | 2321 | active |
| suyalcinkaya/onur.dev A personal website and blog built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui, serving writings, journey pages, and bookmarks. Content is man… | 76 | 2311 | active |
| morethanmin/morethan-log morethan-log is a Next.js static blog template that uses Notion as a headless CMS, letting users publish posts and resume/portfolio pages w… | 50 | 2283 | active |
| brianlovin/briOS briOS is the source code for Brian Lovin's personal website, built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Apollo/GraphQL, and Prisma on PlanetSca… | 82 | 2270 | active |
| vue-json-schema-form A Vue 2/Vue 3 library that dynamically generates fully validated HTML forms from JSON Schema definitions, with adapters for ElementUI, Elem… | 57 | 2267 | active |
| liferay/liferay-portal Liferay DXP (formerly Liferay Portal) is a Java-based digital experience platform combining a CMS, DAM, portals, commerce, search, personal… | 75 | 2266 | active |
| zoujingli/ThinkAdmin ThinkAdmin is a minimal admin management system built on ThinkPHP 6/8 with annotation-based RBAC permissions, async multi-process tasks, an… | 71 | 2264 | active |
| oqtane/oqtane.framework Oqtane is an open-source CMS and modular application framework for building modern .NET applications using Blazor, supporting Server, WebAs… | 96 | 2258 | active |
| SpinaCMS/Spina Spina CMS is a Ruby on Rails gem that adds an easy-to-use content management system with a clean, distraction-free admin interface to Rails… | 78 | 2257 | active |
| pronist/hello hELLO is a popular open-source skin (theme) for the Tistory blogging platform, built with the Tidory framework using Pug templates, Node.js… | 54 | 2257 | active |
| PiranhaCMS/piranha.core Piranha CMS is a lightweight, decoupled, open-source content management system for .NET 8 built on ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. … | 78 | 2196 | active |
| Gridsome Gridsome is a Vue.js-powered Jamstack framework and static site generator that builds fast, CDN-ready websites from any headless CMS, APIs,… | 32 | 8464 | maintenance |
| EasyEngine/easyengine EasyEngine is a command-line control panel that provisions and manages Nginx-based WordPress, PHP, and HTML sites using Docker containers, … | 98 | 2176 | active |
| humanmade/S3-Uploads A lightweight WordPress plugin that stores media uploads on Amazon S3 instead of the local filesystem. It includes WP-CLI commands for IAM … | 67 | 2162 | stable |
| ThinkCMF ThinkCMF is an open-source content management framework built on ThinkPHP 8, supporting both PHP-FPM and Swoole modes. It provides a multi-… | 43 | 2158 | active |
| litten/hexo-theme-yilia Yilia is a simple and elegant theme for the Hexo static site generator, built with JavaScript and webpack. It emphasizes minimalism, fast l… | 32 | 8340 | maintenance |
| Laravel Filemanager A Laravel package providing a media gallery and file manager with upload, validation, cropping, and resizing, built on the Laravel file sys… | 87 | 2148 | stable |
| Surmon.me Blog Surmon.me is the author's open-source personal website and blog, built with Vue 3 and server-side rendering, powered by the NodePress RESTf… | 73 | 2127 | active |
| go-sonic/sonic Sonic is a lightweight, high-performance blogging platform and CMS written in Go, inspired by the Halo project. It ships as a small single … | 23 | 2109 | active |
| sanluan/PublicCMS PublicCMS is an open-source Java content management system built on Spring Boot, FreeMarker, and Hibernate Search, designed to support tens… | 95 | 2097 | active |
| miantiao-me/BroadcastChannel BroadcastChannel is an Astro-based application that turns a Telegram channel into a SEO-friendly microblog website with zero client-side Ja… | 80 | 2096 | active |
| zorlan/skycaiji SkyCaiji (蓝天采集器) is an open-source, PHP+MySQL based visual web scraping system where users define collection rules by point-and-click in a … | 75 | 2095 | active |
| CaliCastle/cali.so The open-source codebase for Cali Castle's personal website (cali.so), built with Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS v4. It… | 67 | 2025 | active |
| vriteio/vrite Vrite is an open-source, collaborative developer content platform for creating, managing, and deploying product documentation, technical bl… | 64 | 2004 | active |
| Yoast/wordpress-seo Yoast SEO is the most popular WordPress plugin for search engine optimization, handling meta tags, XML sitemaps, OpenGraph/social metadata,… | 98 | 2000 | active |
| coralproject/talk Coral is an open-source commenting platform from Vox Media that provides embeddable comment streams, moderation tools, and community featur… | 91 | 1999 | active |
| docker-library/wordpress The Docker Official Image packaging for WordPress, maintained by the Docker Community. It provides ready-to-run container images of the Wor… | 76 | 1984 | stable |
| davidmerfield/blot Blot is an open-source publishing platform that turns a folder of files into a website, powering the hosted service blot.im. It supports Ma… | 76 | 1983 | active |
| WordPress Playground WordPress Playground runs a full WordPress site entirely in the browser (or Node.js) using PHP compiled to WebAssembly, with no server or d… | 98 | 1972 | active |
| Qexo/Qexo Qexo is a fast, powerful, and beautiful online manager/editor for static blog frameworks such as Hexo, built on a Django backend. It can be… | 88 | 1954 | active |
| lenve/VBlog VBlog (V部落) is a multi-user blog management platform built with Vue on the frontend and Spring Boot with Spring Security, MyBatis, and MySQ… | 32 | 7403 | maintenance |
| django-wiki/django-wiki django-wiki is a wiki system built as a reusable Django application, storing articles as Django models with Markdown editing and a plugin a… | 81 | 1940 | active |
| fastadminnet/fastadmin FastAdmin is a rapid backend admin development framework built on ThinkPHP and Bootstrap (with AdminLTE). It provides one-click CRUD genera… | 77 | 1929 | active |
| Thecosy/IceCMS IceCMS is an open-source, self-hosted content management system built with a decoupled Spring Boot backend and Vue/Nuxt3 frontends, plus a … | 48 | 1922 | active |
| neocities/neocities The open-source backend for Neocities.org, a free static web hosting service and social network for personal websites. It provides the full… | 75 | 1909 | active |
| typecho-fans/plugins A community-maintained directory of 131+ plugins for the Typecho blogging platform, indexed with download links and installable via the TeS… | 66 | 1906 | active |
| LetTTGACO/elog Elog is an open-source cross-platform blogging solution that syncs Markdown documents from writing platforms (Notion, Yuque, FlowUs, Feishu… | 74 | 1875 | active |
| django-cms/django-filer django-filer is a file and image management application for Django, providing an admin-integrated interface for organizing, uploading, and … | 93 | 1853 | stable |
| Automattic/jetpack Jetpack is a suite of WordPress plugins and packages providing security, performance, marketing, and site-management tools for WordPress si… | 68 | 1851 | active |
| kjk/notionapi An unofficial Go client library for Notion.so that uses a reverse-engineered API to download Notion pages as structured block data, with li… | 75 | 1840 | active |
| firekylin/firekylin Firekylin is a self-hosted blogging platform built on Node.js with ThinkJS 3 and ReactJS. It provides article and page management, themes, … | 100 | 1831 | active |
| lfb/nodejs-koa-blog A complete blog system built with Node.js and the Koa2 framework, providing REST API endpoints backed by MySQL, with companion Vue/Nuxt fro… | 32 | 1827 | active |
| moxi624/mogu_blog_v2 MoguBlog is a front-end/back-end separated blog system built on a Java microservices architecture (Spring Cloud + Spring Boot + MyBatis-Plu… | 29 | 1811 | active |
| michael/editable Editable is a Svelte-based website starter that lets editors change content directly on the live page, eliminating the need for a separate … | 94 | 1790 | active |
| WordPress/mcp-adapter The official WordPress plugin that bridges the WordPress Abilities API to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exposing plugin, theme, and cor… | 80 | 1784 | active |
| johnbillion/query-monitor Query Monitor is a WordPress and WooCommerce plugin that adds a developer tools panel for debugging database queries, PHP errors, hooks, bl… | 93 | 1779 | stable |
| Redux Framework Redux Framework is an extensible options and interface framework for WordPress themes and plugins, providing admin panels, metaboxes, custo… | 93 | 1778 | active |
| proelements/proelements A WordPress plugin that unlocks GPL-licensed features of Elementor Pro, including pro widgets, theme builder, dynamic content, forms, and p… | 96 | 1771 | active |
| 88250/solo Solo is a small, elegant Java-based blogging platform designed for programmers, part of the B3log distributed community network. It support… | 65 | 1746 | active |
| SonicJs-Org/sonicjs SonicJS is an open-source, edge-native headless CMS built for Cloudflare Workers using TypeScript, Hono, D1, and R2, with sub-100ms API res… | 95 | 1742 | active |
| souvikinator/notion-to-md A Node.js/TypeScript library that converts Notion pages, blocks, and databases into Markdown, MDX, HTML, LaTeX, and other formats via the N… | 59 | 1738 | active |
| Kunena/Kunena-Forum Kunena is a native Joomla forum component written in PHP that adds forums, bulletin boards, discussions, and comments to Joomla websites. I… | 100 | 1730 | active |
| GeoNode GeoNode is an open-source geospatial content management system (CMS) built on Django, GeoServer, PostGIS, and PyCSW for publishing, sharing… | 92 | 1721 | stable |
| bbc/simorgh Simorgh is the BBC's open-source React-based web application that renders World Service News websites and AMP article pages in 41 languages… | 94 | 1716 | active |
| YYsuni/2025-blog-public A deployable open-source blog application that lets users write and manage blog content through a web frontend without writing code. It use… | 59 | 1650 | active |
| Joe Theme Joe is a feature-rich, two-column blog theme for the Typecho publishing platform, written in PHP. It bundles a custom editor, code highligh… | 32 | 1647 | active |
| luangjokaj/wordpressify WordPressify is a Docker-based development tool that automates WordPress theme and plugin development workflows. It scaffolds a project wit… | 79 | 1642 | active |
| typicms/typicms TypiCMS is a modular, multilingual content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. It ships with modules for pages, news, eve… | 92 | 1619 | active |
| wpengine/faustjs Faust.js is a TypeScript toolkit of npm packages for building Next.js applications on top of headless WordPress. It provides data fetching,… | 93 | 1604 | active |
| lonekorean/wordpress-export-to-markdown A Node.js command-line tool that converts a WordPress export XML file into Markdown files with frontmatter, downloading images and updating… | 87 | 1603 | stable |