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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ming-soft/MCMS MCMS is a free, MIT-licensed open-source Java content management system built on SpringBoot 3 with a Vue 3 + Element Plus admin UI. It offe… | 67 | 1592 | active |
| WordOps/WordOps WordOps is a Python-based CLI tool that automates deploying and managing a high-performance WordPress server stack (Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB… | 80 | 1570 | active |
| drupal-composer/drupal-project A Composer project template that scaffolds a Drupal site with a standardized directory layout and dependency management. It installs Drupal… | 32 | 1562 | active |
| Carbon Fields Carbon Fields is a developer-oriented PHP library for creating custom fields in the WordPress admin panel, installable via Composer. It sup… | 93 | 1546 | active |
| Kirby CMS Kirby is a file-based PHP CMS that stores content in plain text files and folders, with a customizable Vue.js admin Panel. This repo is the… | 99 | 1535 | active |
| gitcoffee-os/postbot PostBot is an open-source multi-platform content synchronization assistant that publishes articles, notes, images, videos, and audio to man… | 62 | 1524 | active |
| Winter CMS Winter CMS is a free, open-source, self-hosted content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework, forked from October CMS in 202… | 96 | 1519 | active |
| zutrinken/attila Attila is a clean, content-focused responsive theme for the Ghost publishing platform. It supports light/dark mode, search, reading progres… | 59 | 1505 | active |
| pagekit/pagekit Pagekit is a modular, lightweight open-source content management system built with Symfony components and Vue.js. It provides a web-based a… | 10 | 5454 | maintenance |
| fictionco/fiction Fiction is a next-generation CMS and application framework for building AI-generated content, personal websites, marketing funnels, and new… | 40 | 1468 | active |
| bludit/bludit Bludit is a free, open-source flat-file CMS written in PHP for building websites and blogs in seconds. It stores content as JSON files, req… | 91 | 1466 | active |
| guardian/grid Grid is the Guardian's open-source image management system (digital asset management) built as a set of Scala/Play microservices with an An… | 77 | 1461 | active |
| code100x/cms An open-source content management system (LMS) that powers app.100xdevs.com, an online learning platform for coding cohorts and bootcamps. … | 65 | 1459 | active |
| Portable Text Portable Text is a JSON-based open specification for structured block content (rich text, images, code, custom types) that can be serialize… | 70 | 1446 | active |
| 3xxx/engineercms EngineerCMS is a self-hosted web-based knowledge management system for engineers, built in Go on the Beego framework. It manages personal a… | 80 | 1421 | active |
| MODX MODX Revolution is an open-source PHP content management system and application framework for building websites and web applications. It gi… | 74 | 1411 | active |
| nasirkhan/laravel-starter A CMS-like modular starter application built on Laravel 13.x and Livewire, providing authentication, role management, an admin backend, bac… | 96 | 1406 | active |
| google/site-kit-wp Google's official WordPress plugin that integrates Google services like Search Console, Analytics, AdSense, PageSpeed Insights, Tag Manager… | 99 | 1403 | active |
| yii-starter-kit/yii2-starter-kit A full-featured Yii2 application template designed to bootstrap advanced PHP websites quickly. It ships with a ready-made admin backend bas… | 51 | 1396 | active |
| VanOns/laraberg Laraberg is a Laravel package that integrates the WordPress Gutenberg block editor into Laravel applications. It handles the communication … | 23 | 1371 | active |
| danpros/htmly HTMLy is an open-source, databaseless PHP blogging platform and flat-file CMS that prioritizes simplicity and speed. It stores content as f… | 62 | 1365 | active |
| arterli/CmsWing CmsWing is a CMS and e-commerce website builder built on the Egg.js framework with Sequelize ORM and integrated GraphQL API generation. It … | 23 | 1355 | active |
| jazzband/django-tinymce A Django application providing a form widget and model field that renders the TinyMCE rich text editor. It integrates TinyMCE 7 with Django… | 67 | 1353 | stable |
| sulu/sulu Sulu is an open-source PHP content management system built on the Symfony framework, and this repository contains its core framework that a… | 96 | 1351 | active |
| otale/tale Tale is a lightweight, self-hosted blogging platform written in Java on the Blade MVC framework, using an embedded SQLite database so it ne… | 10 | 4819 | maintenance |
| stephenmcd/mezzanine Mezzanine is an open-source content management platform built on the Django framework, offering an integrated, extensible alternative to Wo… | 61 | 4816 | maintenance |
| pronamic/advanced-custom-fields-pro A Git mirror of Advanced Custom Fields Pro, a premium WordPress plugin for adding custom fields and edit-screen controls to WordPress. It p… | 96 | 1348 | active |
| GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Markdown Laravel Markdown is a CommonMark wrapper for Laravel that integrates the league/commonmark parser into the framework. It ships with integra… | 65 | 1347 | active |
| bolo-blog/bolo-solo Bolo is a Java-based self-hosted blogging system for programmers, deeply customized from the Solo blog platform. It ships with polished the… | 55 | 1344 | active |
| prose/prose Prose is a web-based content editor for GitHub that provides a simple authoring interface for CMS-free websites. It lets users create, edit… | 23 | 4777 | maintenance |
| mozilla/bedrock Bedrock is the open source Django codebase that powers www.mozilla.org, Mozilla's main website. It uses Jinja templating, Mozilla's Protoco… | 92 | 1337 | active |
| GrandNode GrandNode is an open-source, headless, multi-tenant e-commerce platform built on ASP.NET Core and MongoDB (with support for AWS DocumentDB … | 99 | 1334 | active |
| sshwsfc/xadmin Xadmin is a drop-in replacement for the Django admin interface with a Twitter Bootstrap-based UI, plugin extensibility, and features like b… | 45 | 4746 | maintenance |
| saysky/ForestBlog ForestBlog is a personal blog system built with the SSM stack (Spring, SpringMVC, MyBatis) plus JSP and MySQL, managed with Maven. It is ai… | 75 | 4710 | maintenance |
| XWiki XWiki Platform is a generic open-source enterprise wiki platform written in Java that offers runtime services for collaborative application… | 94 | 1314 | stable |
| eddiesigner/liebling Liebling is a free, beautiful and clean theme for the Ghost publishing platform, optimized for Ghost 5. It includes dark mode, built-in sea… | 23 | 1308 | active |
| 10up/ElasticPress ElasticPress is a WordPress plugin that integrates WordPress with Elasticsearch to provide fast, relevant search and querying of site conte… | 92 | 1301 | active |
| contentful/contentful.js The official JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for Contentful's Content Delivery and Preview APIs, letting applications fetch structured content fr… | 93 | 1296 | stable |
| blogifierdotnet/Blogifier Blogifier is an open-source, self-hosted publishing platform written in ASP.NET and Blazor WebAssembly. It lets individuals or groups quick… | 52 | 1292 | active |
| postlight/headless-wp-starter A starter kit from Postlight that spins up a headless WordPress backend exposing data via the WP REST API and GraphQL, alongside sample Rea… | 23 | 4549 | maintenance |
| colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter A Next.js starter template that turns WordPress into a headless CMS, generating a static, SEO-friendly site via WPGraphQL. It ships with bl… | 77 | 1281 | active |
| themeum/kirki Kirki is a WordPress plugin/framework that extends the native WordPress Customizer with over 30 custom controls, automatic CSS and postMess… | 71 | 1273 | active |
| Sir Trevor Sir Trevor is a browser-based rich content editor for the web built around intuitive block-based content creation. Content is stored as str… | 32 | 4481 | maintenance |
| Beacon Beacon is an open-source content management system built on Phoenix LiveView in Elixir, designed for fast rendering of content-heavy pages … | 78 | 1261 | active |
| btw-so/btw btw is an open source personal website and blog builder that lets users set up a blog, notes, and profile page in minutes without coding. I… | 71 | 1255 | active |
| uasoft-indonesia/badaso Badaso is an open-source headless CMS and admin dashboard built on Laravel and Vue.js, providing a CRUD generator, API builder, and user/ro… | 42 | 1254 | active |
| Meta Box Meta Box is a WordPress plugin and framework for creating custom fields and meta boxes for posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, use… | 66 | 1250 | active |
| mybb/mybb MyBB is a free and open source PHP-based forum (bulletin board) application for hosting online communities. It includes an admin control pa… | 85 | 1242 | stable |
| owen2345/camaleon-cms Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system built on Ruby on Rails, designed as a flexible alternative to WordPress fo… | 92 | 1237 | active |
| Hopetree/izone izone is a personal blog system built with Django, MySQL, Redis, and Celery, also usable as a documentation site. It ships with full-text s… | 66 | 1230 | active |
| Innei/Shiro Shiro is a minimalist personal website/blog frontend theme built with Next.js, designed for the Mix Space ecosystem. It features real-time … | 74 | 4253 | maintenance |
| TYPO3/typo3 TYPO3 CMS is an open-source, PHP-based enterprise content management system and content management framework, developed since 1999 and gove… | 76 | 1213 | stable |
| ldqk/Masuit.MyBlogs Masuit.MyBlogs is the source code of a high-performance personal blog/CMS system built with ASP.NET Core (.NET 9) MVC, Vue 3, Blazor Server… | 91 | 1189 | active |
| wa8n/wblog wblog is a self-hosted personal blog application written in Go, built on the Gin web framework and GORM ORM with SQLite or MySQL storage. I… | 70 | 1187 | stable |
| Bolt CMS Bolt is a lightweight, open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP, built on Silex and Symfony components with Twig templati… | 10 | 4134 | maintenance |
| Laravel File Manager A file manager package for Laravel with a Vue.js frontend, built on Laravel Flysystem to support local, S3, FTP, and Dropbox disks. It prov… | 56 | 1185 | active |
| Air-light Air-light is a minimalist, dependency-free WordPress starter theme under 20 KB, based on Underscores. It follows the original WordPress way… | 93 | 1175 | active |
| forkcms/forkcms Fork CMS is an open source, user-friendly content management system built on Symfony components and Doctrine, written in PHP. It ships with… | 34 | 1173 | active |
| strapi/foodadvisor FoodAdvisor is the official Strapi demo application, pairing a pre-populated Strapi headless CMS backend with a Next.js client that consume… | 10 | 1154 | active |
| processwire/processwire ProcessWire 3.x is an open source content management system (CMS) and framework (CMF) written in PHP, built around a hierarchical page tree… | 75 | 1153 | stable |
| ContentTools ContentTools is a JavaScript library for building WYSIWYG editors for HTML content, providing a fully functional page editor that can be em… | 23 | 3975 | maintenance |
| dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) is an open-source web content management platform (CMS) built on the Microsoft/.NET ecosystem, used to build comm… | 99 | 1141 | active |
| WordPress REST API The WordPress REST API, originally developed as the WP-API plugin and merged into WordPress core since version 4.7, exposes WordPress site … | 10 | 3918 | maintenance |
| idno/idno Idno (also known as Known) is an open-source social publishing platform written in PHP that lets individuals and groups share stories and m… | 85 | 1125 | active |
| FixIt FixIt is a clean, elegant, and feature-rich blog theme for the Hugo static site generator, based on the LoveIt, KeepIt, and LeaveIt themes.… | 89 | 1120 | active |
| pods-framework/pods Pods Framework is an open-source WordPress plugin and development framework for creating, extending, and managing custom content types, tax… | 96 | 1119 | active |
| ijjk/notion-blog A Next.js example site that uses static-site generation (SSG) with Notion's private API as a blog backend. It renders blog posts authored i… | 32 | 3856 | maintenance |
| flowershow/flowershow Flowershow is an open-source platform for publishing folders of Markdown (including Obsidian-flavored syntax) as hosted websites, docs, wik… | 99 | 1108 | active |
| zhangyd-c/OneBlog OneBlog is a self-hosted Java blog system built with Spring Boot and Bootstrap, featuring a full admin backend and responsive public-facing… | 24 | 1105 | active |
| DSpace DSpace is an open-source digital asset management system that powers institutional repositories, providing durable access to digital resour… | 98 | 1102 | stable |
| diyhi/bbs Xunyun Light Forum is a self-hosted community forum and Q&A system built on JDK 21 and Spring Boot 4.x with a decoupled Vue 3 frontend. It … | 72 | 1086 | active |
| cofess/hexo-theme-pure A pure, clean blog theme for the Hexo static site generator, built with CSS and Bootstrap styling. It supports multiple languages, comments… | 45 | 1085 | active |
| lqez/django-summernote A Django app that integrates the Summernote WYSIWYG rich-text editor into Django projects via widgets and admin mixins. It supports attachm… | 23 | 1084 | active |
| ttttonyhe/ouorz-mono A Turborepo monorepo containing the Next.js/React source code and Docker images that power the author's personal website and academic profi… | 66 | 1082 | active |
| gantry/gantry5 Gantry 5 is a PHP-based theme/template framework for building CMS themes for Joomla, WordPress, and Grav. It provides a visual drag-and-dro… | 94 | 1062 | active |
| piharpi/jekyll-klise Klisé is a minimalist Jekyll theme for running a personal site or blog, with light and dark mode support. It ships with SEO optimization, r… | 23 | 1061 | stable |
| pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS pH7Builder (formerly pH7CMS) is a self-hosted, open-source PHP 8.2+ CMS for building white-label dating sites, matchmaking communities, and… | 97 | 1059 | active |
| imranhsayed/aquila Aquila is an advanced WordPress theme built with Bootstrap, custom Gutenberg blocks, and a modern webpack/Babel/Sass asset pipeline. It dou… | 23 | 1058 | active |
| aimeos/ai-cms-grapesjs A GrapesJS-based CMS extension for Aimeos that adds a visual drag-and-drop page editor for building content pages from extensible component… | 76 | 1055 | active |
| D0n9X1n/hexo-blog-encrypt A Hexo plugin that encrypts blog posts with passwords so only readers with the correct password can view the content. It works with the Hex… | 94 | 1051 | active |
| Backdrop CMS Backdrop CMS is a free, open-source, PHP-based content management system forked from Drupal 7, designed for non-technical users to build an… | 97 | 1049 | active |
| Vimux/Mainroad Mainroad is a responsive, simple, clean and content-focused Hugo theme based on the MH Magazine lite WordPress theme. It provides configura… | 32 | 1049 | active |
| pkp/ojs Open Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source PHP web application developed by the Public Knowledge Project for managing and publishing scho… | 77 | 1042 | stable |
| alphagov/whitehall Whitehall is a Ruby on Rails application used by UK government publishers to create and manage content published on GOV.UK. It provides an … | 94 | 1033 | active |
| Extended CPTs A PHP library that extends WordPress custom post types and taxonomies with improved defaults, declarative admin columns, filters, and front… | 72 | 1027 | active |
| Public Lab Plots2 plots2 is the Ruby on Rails content management system powering PublicLab.org, combining a research blog, wiki, Q&A portal, and tagging-base… | 44 | 1023 | active |
| danielcgilibert/blog-template OpenBlog is an open-source blog template built with Astro, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, pre-configured with Tina CMS for in-repo content e… | 20 | 1018 | active |
| xiaopanglian/icefox Icefox is a modern, responsive theme for the Typecho blogging platform styled like WeChat Moments, built with Bulma CSS and Alpine.js. It s… | 10 | 1017 | active |
| yrccondor/mdx MDx is a Material Design WordPress theme written in PHP, offering multiple layout styles, color schemes, night mode, and built-in features … | 23 | 1012 | active |
| roots/acorn Acorn is a framework that integrates Laravel components into WordPress projects, providing access to Illuminate packages like routing, cach… | 93 | 1005 | active |
| sehmaschine/django-filebrowser A Django admin extension for browsing server directories and managing media files (upload, delete, edit, rename). It integrates with Grappe… | 72 | 998 | active |
| wp-bootstrap/wp-bootstrap-navwalker A custom WordPress nav walker class that formats WordPress menus with the markup and CSS classes needed for Bootstrap 4 dropdown navigation… | 23 | 3317 | maintenance |
| qiubaiying/qiubaiying.github.io A Jekyll-based personal blog theme/template designed for hosting on GitHub Pages. It provides a ready-to-fork blog with sidebar, tags, comm… | 32 | 3311 | maintenance |
| thoughtbot/high_voltage High Voltage is a Rails engine that makes it easy to serve static pages like 'About us' or marketing pages from an app/views/pages director… | 59 | 3234 | maintenance |
| Dynalon/mdwiki MDwiki is a 100% client-side CMS/wiki implemented as a single HTML file that renders Markdown pages entirely in the browser with no server-… | 23 | 3191 | maintenance |
| chrisdiana/cms.js CMS.js is a fully client-side JavaScript Markdown site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that renders Markdown content into a complete sing… | 23 | 3049 | maintenance |
| mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog A CLI tool that migrates a Medium blog to a self-hosted Gatsby-based blog in minutes. It exports Medium content into Markdown/MDX and scaff… | 32 | 3001 | maintenance |
| Notion API A fast React renderer that displays Notion pages as React components, letting developers use Notion as a headless CMS. It renders a block m… | 23 | 3000 | maintenance |
| DocHub DocHub is an open-source document library (wenku) system inspired by Baidu Wenku, built with Go and the Beego framework. It converts Office… | 23 | 2954 | maintenance |
| themsaid/wink Wink is a Laravel package that adds an elegant admin UI for managing a publication with posts, pages, tags, and authors. It is faceless, me… | 23 | 2926 | maintenance |