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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| shen100/mili Mili is an open-source community/forum system with an elegant interface, built with Vue and iView on the frontend and TypeScript, NestJS, a… | 32 | 2913 | maintenance |
| LavaLite CMS LavaLite is a multilingual open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework with a Bootstrap-based admin interface.… | 23 | 2889 | maintenance |
| jcc/blog PJ Blog is an open-source blog application built with Laravel and Vue.js, featuring an admin dashboard, article management, comments, roles… | 23 | 2851 | maintenance |
| logamee/lin-cms-vue Lin CMS is a front-end CMS development framework built with Vue 3 and Element Plus, part of a full front-end/back-end CMS solution with bac… | 55 | 2834 | maintenance |
| ComfortableMexicanSofa ComfortableMexicanSofa is a Ruby on Rails CMS engine that adds content management capabilities to Rails 5.2+ applications with minimal conf… | 23 | 2707 | maintenance |
| White Jotter White-Jotter is a simple content management system (CMS) built with a Vue.js frontend and Spring Boot backend, demonstrating a full front-e… | 23 | 2536 | maintenance |
| scullyio/scully Scully is a static site generator for Angular applications that pre-renders each route into plain HTML and CSS for fast, SEO-friendly Jamst… | 23 | 2527 | maintenance |
| alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor Aloha Editor is a JavaScript HTML5 WYSIWYG content editing library that allows editing of web content directly in the browser. It is plugin… | 76 | 2487 | maintenance |
| bergie/create Midgard Create is a browser-based HTML5 editing interface that makes RDFa-annotated content on any CMS-managed pages editable in place. It … | 10 | 2454 | maintenance |
| django-ckeditor/django-ckeditor A Django app that integrates the CKEditor 4 WYSIWYG rich text editor into Django admin and forms, providing RichTextField, RichTextUploadin… | 40 | 2451 | maintenance |
| eduardoboucas/staticman Staticman is a Node.js web service that receives form submissions (user-generated content) from static websites and commits them as data fi… | 23 | 2450 | maintenance |
| CannerCMS/cannercms CannerCMS is a content management framework for building custom CMS interfaces quickly using React and JSX, with support for data sources s… | 10 | 2406 | maintenance |
| shimh-develop/blog-vue-springboot A full-stack blog system built with Vue on the frontend and SpringBoot on the backend, featuring articles, categories, tags, archives, comm… | 32 | 2293 | maintenance |
| Valine Valine is a fast, simple, and lightweight client-side comment system for websites and static blogs, built on LeanCloud with no backend impl… | 23 | 2230 | maintenance |
| Plume-org/Plume Plume is a federated blogging engine built on ActivityPub, written in Rust with the Rocket framework and Diesel ORM. It lets users self-hos… | 26 | 2223 | maintenance |
| Fantomas42/django-blog-zinnia Django Blog Zinnia is a reusable Django application for managing a blog within an existing Django website. It provides blog publishing feat… | 32 | 2123 | maintenance |
| sav7ng/WeHalo WeHalo is a minimalist-style WeChat Mini Program client for the Halo blogging system. It renders posts from a self-hosted Halo blog inside … | 23 | 2095 | maintenance |
| kabukky/journey Journey is a self-contained blog engine written in Go that is compatible with Ghost themes. It ships as a single dependency-free binary wit… | 23 | 1985 | maintenance |
| pybbs (朋也社区) pybbs is a self-hosted community forum (BBS) application written in Java with Spring Boot. It provides a full front-end forum and an admin … | 41 | 1958 | maintenance |
| Jackblog Jackblog Vue is the Vue 2 client of the Jackblog personal blogging system, built with vuex, vue-router, vue-resource, vee-validate, and vue… | 23 | 1931 | maintenance |
| LyraVoid/Mizuki Mizuki is a feature-rich Material Design 3 blog theme/template built on Astro and Tailwind CSS, with search, RSS, comments, and many specia… | 74 | 1899 | maintenance |
| publify/publify Publify is a self-hosted, multi-user web publishing platform built on Ruby on Rails, formerly known as Typo and the oldest active Rails ope… | 66 | 1853 | maintenance |
| lincanbin/Carbon-Forum Carbon Forum is a high-performance open-source forum application written in PHP with a MySQL backend. It organizes discussions around tags … | 23 | 1837 | maintenance |
| ampproject/amp-wp The official AMP plugin for WordPress, supported by the AMP team, that generates AMP-valid markup and integrates AMP serving into the norma… | 66 | 1811 | maintenance |
| schn4ck/schnack Schnack is a tiny, self-hosted, open-source commenting system for static websites, serving as a Disqus-like drop-in widget. It offers OAuth… | 23 | 1811 | maintenance |
| ustwo/ustwo.com-frontend The front-end source code and build tooling for the ustwo.com corporate website, built as a React single-page application with server-side … | 32 | 1797 | maintenance |
| jaredly/hexo-admin An admin interface plugin for the Hexo static blog engine, providing a Ghost-style UI for authoring and editing posts. It runs alongside th… | 32 | 1788 | maintenance |
| TGMPA/TGM-Plugin-Activation TGM Plugin Activation is a PHP library for WordPress that lets theme and plugin authors require or recommend plugins, handling their instal… | 23 | 1755 | maintenance |
| Octopress Octopress is a Ruby CLI toolkit that scaffolds and manages Jekyll blogs, adding commands for creating posts, pages, drafts, and deploying s… | 32 | 1747 | maintenance |
| Qbian61/forum-java forum-java is an open-source modern community platform built with Java and Spring Boot, providing forum, Q&A, BBS, social network, and blog… | 32 | 1744 | maintenance |
| Smartstore Smartstore is an open-source enterprise eCommerce platform (shopping cart) built on ASP.NET (the legacy SmartStoreNET on ASP.NET MVC 5, suc… | 83 | 1722 | maintenance |
| birkir/prime Prime is an open-source, self-hosted headless CMS with a GraphQL interface, built in TypeScript with React and TypeORM. It supports schema … | 23 | 1717 | maintenance |
| radiant/radiant Radiant is an open source, general-purpose content management system built as a traditional Ruby on Rails application, aimed at small teams… | 61 | 1680 | maintenance |
| q2a/question2answer Question2Answer (Q2A) is a free, open-source PHP/MySQL platform for building question-and-answer websites, used by tens of thousands of sit… | 23 | 1669 | maintenance |
| Notion API A serverless API wrapper around Notion's private API that exposes Notion pages and tables as JSON via simple GET requests, deployable on Ve… | 50 | 1665 | maintenance |
| Raysmond/SpringBlog SpringBlog is a simple, clean-design blogging system built with Spring Boot, Hibernate, MySQL, Redis caching, and Bootstrap 4. It is primar… | 10 | 1644 | maintenance |
| zhisheng17/blog A self-hosted personal blog application built with Spring Boot, MyBatis, Thymeleaf, and MySQL, forked from My-Blog (itself derived from Tal… | 32 | 1642 | maintenance |
| johnroper100/dropplets Dropplets is a minimalist, self-hosted blogging platform written in PHP that publishes posts written in Markdown. It requires no database, … | 23 | 1611 | maintenance |
| Wizzercn/NutzWk NutzWk (new name BudWk) is an open-source enterprise-grade Java web development framework built on the Nutz/NutzBoot stack with a Vue.js + … | 23 | 1609 | maintenance |
| WeChat Public Account Management System wx-manage is an open-source admin dashboard frontend (Vue 2 + ElementUI) for managing WeChat Official Accounts, supporting multi-account ac… | 10 | 1609 | maintenance |
| fi3ework/hexo-theme-archer Archer is a modern Hexo blog theme featuring a sidebar for quick archive, tag, and category navigation, inspired by the yilia and huxpro th… | 23 | 1585 | maintenance |
| Molunerfinn/hexo-theme-melody A simple, beautiful, and fast theme for the Hexo static site generator, written in Stylus. It provides blog layouts, theming configuration,… | 23 | 1584 | maintenance |
| dwijitsolutions/laraadmin LaraAdmin is an open-source Laravel admin panel / CMS / CRM boilerplate that generates CRUD interfaces, migrations, and role-based access c… | 23 | 1583 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/blog.fossasia.org This repository serves as the issue tracker for the FOSSASIA Blog, a WordPress-powered site at blog.fossasia.org. It contains no applicatio… | 32 | 1530 | maintenance |
| Miniblog Miniblog.Core is a lightweight, full-featured blogging engine built on ASP.NET Core. It provides post authoring, comments, RSS/ATOM feeds, … | 57 | 1524 | maintenance |
| fossasia/loklak_wp_plugins A collection of WordPress plugins integrating Loklak social-media search, packaged with a WordPress + PostgreSQL (pg4wp) setup deployable t… | 32 | 1503 | maintenance |
| chakhsu/pinghsu Pinghsu is a Typecho blog theme built with a focus on front-end performance optimization while balancing design aesthetics and visual commu… | 23 | 1479 | maintenance |
| GitHub-Laziji/VBlog VBlog is a Vue-based blog system that runs entirely on GitHub Pages, storing posts in GitHub Gists and interacting with them via the GitHub… | 32 | 1472 | maintenance |
| elementor/wp2static WP2Static is a WordPress plugin that generates a static copy of a WordPress site and deploys it to static hosting. It improves security, pe… | 23 | 1470 | maintenance |
| welaika/wordless Wordless is a WordPress plugin and theme boilerplate that brings modern tooling (Pug templating, Sass/SCSS, Babel, WebPack, BrowserSync) to… | 23 | 1417 | maintenance |
| eshengsky/iBlog iBlog is an open-source personal blogging system built on Node.js with Nuxt, Vue, and TypeScript, backed by MongoDB. It offers a modern res… | 32 | 1378 | maintenance |
| shopware5/shopware Shopware 5 is an open-source e-commerce platform built on Symfony, Doctrine, and Zend Framework, providing a full online store solution wit… | 66 | 1309 | maintenance |
| nielsenramon/chalk Chalk is a free, customizable, and performant Jekyll blog theme written with SCSS and Liquid templates. It ships with dark/light modes, tag… | 23 | 1281 | maintenance |
| shuleisanshi/myblog A personal blog application built with the Java SSM stack (Spring + Spring MVC + MyBatis) and layui, featuring user registration, article p… | 32 | 1264 | maintenance |
| Themosis Framework Themosis is a PHP framework that wraps WordPress in a Laravel-inspired object-oriented structure, providing routing, controllers, views (Bl… | 23 | 1247 | maintenance |
| zhuzhuyule/HexoEditor HexoEditor is an Electron-based markdown editor tailored for writing Hexo blog posts, forked from Moeditor. It offers live Hexo-accurate pr… | 23 | 1227 | maintenance |
| jlongster/blog The source code for James Long's personal blog (jlongster.com), a simple Node.js server that indexes blog posts from the filesystem. It pre… | 32 | 1207 | maintenance |
| gdtool/cloudflare-workers-blog A blog application that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, using Cloudflare KV as its database with no other dependencies. It combines th… | 40 | 1203 | maintenance |
| OWASP/joomscan OWASP JoomScan is an open-source Perl-based vulnerability scanner for Joomla CMS deployments. It enumerates versions, components, and known… | 23 | 1193 | maintenance |
| belastrittmatter/Framely Framely is an open-source, full-stack Next.js drag-and-drop website builder with multi-tenancy and custom subdomain support. It serves as a… | 44 | 1183 | maintenance |
| browsermedia/browsercms BrowserCMS is an open source, general-purpose Web Content Management System built as a Ruby on Rails engine, targeting Rails 4.0. It suppor… | 32 | 1167 | maintenance |
| LoeiFy/Diaspora Diaspora is a WordPress theme written in PHP featuring a photo-wallpaper gallery layout, music playback in posts, and quick-preview menus. … | 32 | 1155 | maintenance |
| WhiteHouse/petitions A Drupal 7 installation profile that powers We The People, the White House online petition platform at petitions.whitehouse.gov. It lets us… | 10 | 1147 | maintenance |
| Track3/hermit Hermit is a minimal and fast Hugo theme designed for bloggers who want a simple, focused website. It features a single-column layout, light… | 23 | 1145 | maintenance |
| bborn/communityengine CommunityEngine is a Ruby on Rails engine (gem) that adds social networking features to an existing Rails application, including user accou… | 10 | 1133 | maintenance |
| feincms/feincms FeinCMS is an extensible Django-based content management system and CMS building toolkit. It knows nothing about content itself, instead le… | 77 | 1130 | maintenance |
| Data.gov The WordPress theme and issue tracker for Data.gov, the U.S. government's open data site, which pairs a WordPress front end with a CKAN dat… | 77 | 1126 | maintenance |
| xujeff/tianti Tianti is a free, lightweight Java-based CMS providing a complete backend admin and responsive frontend solution built on Spring MVC, Sprin… | 23 | 1101 | maintenance |
| Zephery/newblog A personal blog/website application built with Java (Spring, Spring MVC, Mybatis), featuring Lucene-based search, Redis caching, WebSocket … | 23 | 1098 | maintenance |
| markjaquith/WP-Stack WP Stack is a toolkit for professional WordPress deployments, combining Capistrano-based deployment configuration with a set of must-use Wo… | 32 | 1094 | maintenance |
| InkProject/ink Ink (InkPaper) is a static blog generator written in Go with no dependencies, fast builds, and an elegant built-in theme. It supports YAML … | 63 | 1089 | maintenance |
| welkinwong/nodercms NoderCMS is a lightweight open-source content management system built on Node.js and MongoDB. It offers flexible content models and a compl… | 10 | 1082 | maintenance |
| ajinabraham/CMSScan CMSScan is a self-hosted security dashboard that scans WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and vBulletin websites for vulnerabilities by wrapping wp… | 32 | 1081 | maintenance |
| ijry/lyadmin lyadmin is a lightweight general-purpose admin backend built on ThinkPHP and Bootstrap3, featuring system settings, upload management, perm… | 67 | 1059 | maintenance |
| wesleytodd/YeoPress YeoPress is a Yeoman generator that scaffolds WordPress projects, handling installation, directory setup, Git submodule management, databas… | 10 | 1059 | maintenance |
| rosario/kasper A Jekyll port of Ghost's default Casper v1 theme, providing a ready-to-use blog layout with pagination, RSS, syntax highlighting, Disqus co… | 32 | 1030 | maintenance |
| phusion/juvia Juvia is a self-hosted, open-source commenting server similar to Disqus and IntenseDebate, built in Ruby on Rails. Site owners embed commen… | 10 | 1025 | maintenance |
| samuelkraft/notion-blog-nextjs A Next.js example blog that fetches posts from Notion's Public API and renders them as a website. It serves as a starter template for build… | 32 | 1020 | maintenance |
| woocommerce/storefront Storefront is the official WordPress theme built by the WooCommerce team, offering deep integration with WooCommerce core and popular exten… | 71 | 1019 | maintenance |
| WordPress.com (Calypso) WordPress.com for Desktop is an Electron-based application that packages the full WordPress.com experience as a native desktop app for Mac,… | 96 | 1018 | maintenance |
| ghboke/CorePressWPTheme CorePress is a free, lightweight, high-performance WordPress theme built in PHP with no frontend framework, aimed at geeks and bloggers. It… | 23 | 1003 | maintenance |
| simplethemes/skeleton_wp Skeleton is a simple, responsive WordPress theme based on the Skeleton Boilerplate, featuring shortcodes for tabs, toggles, CSS3 buttons, a… | 32 | 1000 | maintenance |
| npmaile/blog The source repository for Nate Maile's personal blog, containing his blog posts and site content. It is a personal writing project rather t… | 64 | 1005 | experimental |
| thedevdojo/voyager Voyager is a Laravel admin package providing a BREAD (Browse, Read, Edit, Add, Delete) builder, media manager, menu builder, database manag… | 10 | 11796 | abandoned |
| relax/relax Relax is a next-generation CMS built on React, Redux, and GraphQL with a live drag-and-drop page builder that binds dynamic data to compone… | 32 | 8092 | abandoned |
| ponzu-cms/ponzu Ponzu is an open-source headless CMS and HTTP server framework written in Go that auto-generates content editors and a JSON API from CLI sc… | 43 | 5760 | abandoned |
| tessalt/echo-chamber-js A satirical JavaScript comment widget for blogs and static sites that stores comments only in the visitor's LocalStorage, so no one else (i… | 32 | 4104 | abandoned |
| picocms/Pico Pico is a flat file CMS written in PHP that turns Markdown files with YAML metadata into websites using Twig templates, with no database or… | 60 | 3905 | abandoned |
| plusjade/jekyll-bootstrap Jekyll-Bootstrap is a starter framework for quickly launching and publishing Jekyll-powered blogs, fully compatible with GitHub Pages. The … | 10 | 3324 | abandoned |
| Anchor CMS Anchor CMS is a super-simple, lightweight blog CMS written in PHP, designed to let users write and publish posts with minimal overhead. The… | 10 | 3292 | abandoned |
| livid/v2ex-gae Project Babel 2 is the legacy Python codebase that powered the V2EX community, a forum application for creating and supporting online discu… | 10 | 3082 | abandoned |
| frontity/frontity Frontity is an open-source React framework for building fast frontends for headless WordPress sites, consuming content via the WordPress RE… | 10 | 2932 | abandoned |
| djyde/cusdis Cusdis is an open-source, lightweight (~5kb gzipped) and privacy-friendly embeddable comment system for small websites, designed as a Disqu… | 10 | 2778 | abandoned |
| versionpress/versionpress VersionPress is a WordPress plugin that provides Git-based version control for WordPress sites, including database changes. It supports und… | 10 | 2591 | abandoned |
| BootstrapCMS/CMS Bootstrap CMS is a PHP content management system built on Laravel 5.1 and the Sentry authentication package. It provides a full self-hosted… | 10 | 2499 | abandoned |
| Vuedo/vuedo Vuedo is an open-source blog platform built with Laravel and Vue.js, serving as a live example of how the two frameworks work together. It … | 23 | 2267 | abandoned |
| quokkaproject/quokka Quokka is a Python/Flask-based content management framework for building websites, blogs, and portals with a web admin interface. It suppor… | 10 | 2225 | abandoned |
| FrozenNode/Laravel-Administrator An administrative interface builder package for Laravel that lets you visually manage Eloquent models, their relations, and stand-alone set… | 23 | 1912 | abandoned |
| andrewelkins/Laravel-4-Bootstrap-Starter-Site A Laravel 4 starter application providing a basic blog with Bootstrap 3 front-end and an admin back-end. It bundles community packages like… | 23 | 1760 | abandoned |
| WebDevStudios/Custom-Metaboxes-and-Fields-for-WordPress A WordPress plugin/library for easily creating admin metaboxes with custom fields. It is no longer supported or developed; all future work … | 10 | 1733 | abandoned |