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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cliftonc/calipso Calipso is a simple NodeJS content management system built on Express, Connect, and Mongoose, inspired by Drupal and WordPress. It provides… | 10 | 1689 | abandoned |
| pencilblue/pencilblue PencilBlue is a full-featured open-source content management system and blogging platform for Node.js, featuring a plugin framework, relati… | 23 | 1561 | abandoned |
| rubysherpas/forem Forem is a Rails engine that adds forum functionality (forums, topics, and posts) to Rails 3 and Rails 4 applications. It is designed to be… | 32 | 1549 | abandoned |
| WordExpress WordExpress is a stack for building WordPress-powered sites with Node, React, GraphQL, and Apollo, replacing the WordPress theme layer with… | 32 | 1547 | abandoned |
| zensh/jsgen JsGen is a free, open-source community website system written entirely in JavaScript, built on Node.js, AngularJS, and MongoDB. It can be u… | 10 | 1545 | abandoned |
| Flarum Flarum is a free, open-source forum application built in PHP with a Mithril-based JavaScript frontend, focused on being fast, simple, and e… | 23 | 1543 | abandoned |
| Phimp.me Phimp.me Drupal and WordPress modules providing a prototype integration of the Phimp.me photo application with these CMS platforms. The rep… | 10 | 1539 | abandoned |
| fossasia/fossasia10-legacy The legacy Drupal-based website for the FOSSASIA 2010 conference, built in PHP. It is an archived historical site codebase with no active d… | 32 | 1530 | abandoned |
| fossasia/fossasia11-legacy The legacy Drupal-based website for the FOSSASIA 2011 conference, written in PHP. It is an archived historical project preserved for refere… | 32 | 1529 | abandoned |
| fossasia/fossasia-webfeeds A feeder that displays the official FOSSASIA blog on static websites, with a standalone index.html and an embeddable embed.html version for… | 32 | 1506 | abandoned |
| fossasia/wp-accesspress-legacy AccessPress Twitter Feed is a WordPress plugin that displays real-time tweets from any Twitter account on a website via shortcodes or widge… | 32 | 1503 | abandoned |
| fossasia/wp-tweet-legacy A WordPress widget plugin that displays Twitter feeds in widget-ready areas, parsing @usernames, #hashtags, and URLs into links. It support… | 32 | 1503 | abandoned |
| fossasia/wp-recent-tweet A WordPress widget plugin that displays recent tweets using the Twitter API v1.1 or the anonymous Loklak API, with built-in caching to avoi… | 10 | 1502 | abandoned |
| vapid/vapid Vapid is an intentionally simple Node.js-based content management system that lets developers build custom dashboards and websites directly… | 10 | 1497 | abandoned |
| toto Toto is a tiny (~300 sloc) git-powered blog engine built directly on Rack, storing articles as plain text files with YAML metadata and rend… | 32 | 1494 | abandoned |
| fossasia/wp-dev-buddy A WordPress plugin that renders Twitter v1.1 feeds (user timelines, searches, and lists) via a shortcode or template tag. It is aimed at de… | 10 | 1491 | abandoned |
| esotalk/esoTalk esoTalk is a free, open-source forum software package built with PHP and MySQL, designed to be fast, simple, and extensible via plugins and… | 23 | 1470 | abandoned |
| Lucifer1993/AngelSword AngelSword is a simple CMS vulnerability detection framework written in Python3, designed to help security engineers quickly discover known… | 32 | 1441 | abandoned |
| themeskult/wp-svbtle A WordPress theme and custom admin interface inspired by the minimalist Svbtle blogging platform. It replaces the standard WordPress dashbo… | 32 | 1430 | abandoned |
| michaelliao/itranswarp.js A Node.js-powered self-hosted website platform built on Koa2 that combines a blog, wiki, discussion forum, and search engine. It is depreca… | 10 | 1393 | abandoned |
| natew/obtvse Obtvse is a clean and simple markdown blogging platform built on Ruby on Rails, inspired by Svbtle. It is deprecated in favor of its rewrit… | 32 | 1377 | abandoned |
| airesvsg/acf-to-rest-api A WordPress plugin that exposes Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) data through dedicated endpoints in the WordPress REST API. It adds /wp-json/a… | 32 | 1360 | abandoned |
| creationix/wheat Wheat is a blog engine for coders written in Node.js that reads a git repository of markdown articles and renders them as a website. It sup… | 32 | 1350 | abandoned |
| nathanborror/django-basic-apps A collection of simple, prebuilt Django applications (blog, inlines, tagging, etc.) meant to be dropped into Django projects as reusable bu… | 10 | 1312 | abandoned |
| mhoofman/wordpress-heroku A template repository for deploying and running WordPress on Heroku, bundling plugins for PostgreSQL support, S3/CloudFront media storage, … | 10 | 1296 | abandoned |
| oswaldoacauan/ghostium Ghostium is a Ghost blog theme inspired by Medium's design and UX, focused on content-first reading. It is a Handlebars-based theme with re… | 32 | 1264 | abandoned |
| zhyocean/MyBlog A personal blog website built with SpringBoot, MyBatis, Redis, and Thymeleaf, featuring a public portal, admin dashboard, and user center. … | 32 | 1232 | abandoned |
| llldddbbb/dbblog A multi-module, front-end/back-end separated open-source blog system built with SpringBoot 2.x and Vue 2.x, including a public site, admin … | 32 | 1155 | abandoned |
| strapi/nextjs-corporate-starter A demo/starter application from Strapi showing how to build a corporate website with Next.js 14, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript on top of the… | 10 | 1129 | abandoned |
| pythoncn/june June is a self-hosted web forum application written in Python, designed for running online discussion communities. The project is officiall… | 10 | 1095 | abandoned |
| aramk/crayon-syntax-highlighter A PHP and jQuery syntax highlighter supporting many languages, themes, fonts, and highlighting from URLs, local files, or post text. It is … | 32 | 1093 | abandoned |
| panr/hugo-theme-hello-friend Hello Friend is a minimal, responsive Hugo theme for personal blogs and sites, featuring dark/light mode, PrismJS code highlighting, and bu… | 10 | 1080 | abandoned |
| bucketsio/buckets Buckets is a Node.js-based content management system for building dynamic websites, installable as an NPM module and backed by MongoDB. It … | 10 | 1049 | abandoned |
| kippt/jekyll-incorporated Jekyll Incorporated is a modern Jekyll-based blog theme designed for company, product, and team blogs. It ships with configuration, styling… | 10 | 1048 | abandoned |
| Enclavely/tailor Tailor is a free WordPress page builder plugin that provides true drag-and-drop layout creation with rows, nested columns, templates, and a… | 23 | 1034 | abandoned |
| Stacey Stacey is a lightweight PHP-based flat-file CMS that generates websites from YAML content files, images, and directory structure using Twig… | 32 | 1033 | abandoned |
| daylightstudio/FUEL-CMS FUEL CMS is an open-source content management system built on the CodeIgniter PHP framework, aimed at developers building customizable clie… | 57 | 1020 | abandoned |
| wordpress-clients/hybrid A framework for building Progressive Web Apps and hybrid mobile apps (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) from a WordPress site using the WordPres… | 23 | 1004 | abandoned |
| roots/soil Soil is a WordPress plugin offering a collection of modules that apply theme-agnostic front-end modifications, such as cleaner markup, nice… | 10 | 1002 | abandoned |
| ffii/FFII-blog The source repository for the FFII (Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) blog, containing the blog's content and site setup. I… | 32 | 1000 | abandoned |
| xb2016/kratos-pjax Kratos-pjax is a clean, responsive WordPress blog theme built on Bootstrap and Font Awesome with pjax page loading. The project is deprecat… | 56 | 996 | abandoned |
| Hugo Hugo is a fast, flexible static site generator written in Go. It builds complete websites from markdown and templates, rendering them in se… | 95 | 90127 | active |
| Memos Memos is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking application built for quick capture, with a timeline-first interface and Markdown-native n… | 94 | 63681 | active |
| codex-team/editor.js Editor.js is an open-source, block-style rich text editor for the web that outputs clean JSON instead of HTML markup. It is highly extensib… | 92 | 31969 | stable |
| Wiki.js Wiki.js is a modern, open-source wiki application built on Node.js with a Vue.js frontend. It supports multiple databases, Git-based storag… | 99 | 29032 | active |
| GrapesJS GrapesJS is a free and open-source web builder framework for creating drag-and-drop visual editors that let users build HTML-like templates… | 99 | 26310 | active |
| TinyMCE TinyMCE is a widely used JavaScript WYSIWYG rich text editor library that generates HTML5 output and is highly customizable via plugins and… | 76 | 16305 | stable |
| Apache Answer Apache Answer is an open-source Q&A platform software for building community forums, help centers, and knowledge management sites. It is wr… | 89 | 15689 | stable |
| Qloapps/QloApps QloApps is a free, open-source PHP-based hotel management and reservation platform that bundles a Property Management System (PMS), a booki… | 66 | 14389 | active |
| adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod PaperMod is a fast, clean, and responsive theme for the Hugo static site generator, built for blogs and portfolio sites. It ships with ligh… | 62 | 13973 | stable |
| Pelican Pelican is a Python-based static site generator that converts content written in Markdown, reStructuredText, or HTML into fully static webs… | 79 | 13354 | stable |
| Magento Open Source Magento Open Source is a full-featured PHP-based eCommerce platform maintained by Adobe for building online stores. It provides catalog man… | 100 | 12208 | active |
| giscus giscus is an open-source commenting system for websites powered by GitHub Discussions, serving as a successor to utterances. It embeds as a… | 66 | 12159 | active |
| Frappe Framework Frappe Framework is a batteries-included, low-code full-stack web application framework written in Python and JavaScript, built around meta… | 95 | 10937 | stable |
| CKEditor 5 CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript/TypeScript rich-text (WYSIWYG) editor framework with a modular plugin architecture, custom data model, an… | 98 | 10508 | stable |
| nopCommerce nopCommerce is a free, open-source eCommerce platform and shopping cart built on ASP.NET Core with support for MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, a… | 96 | 10155 | stable |
| MrXujiang/h5-Dooring H5-Dooring is an open-source low-code visual page builder for creating H5 (mobile web), landing pages, and PC websites via drag-and-drop co… | 70 | 9995 | active |
| Active Admin Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails engine and framework for building elegant administration backends for web applications. It provides a DSL t… | 85 | 9713 | stable |
| Webstudio Webstudio is an open-source visual website builder and Webflow alternative that gives developers and designers full control over CSS, HTML,… | 95 | 9081 | active |
| AdminJS AdminJS is an open-source admin panel library for Node.js applications that auto-generates a customizable React-based admin UI from your da… | 40 | 8998 | active |
| openedx/openedx-platform Open edX Platform is the open-source Learning Management System (LMS) and Studio (CMS) that powers online course delivery and authoring at … | 66 | 8193 | active |
| fluid-dev/hexo-theme-fluid Fluid is an elegant Material Design theme for the Hexo static site generator, installable via npm for Hexo 5.0+. It provides a polished blo… | 68 | 8167 | active |
| HalseySpicy/Geeker-Admin Geeker-Admin is an open-source admin dashboard framework built on Vue 3.4, TypeScript, Vite 5, Pinia, and Element Plus. It ships with a pow… | 62 | 8089 | active |
| railsadminteam/rails_admin RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that adds an easy-to-use admin interface for managing application data. It provides automatic CRUD, search, fi… | 75 | 7956 | active |
| moodle/moodle Moodle is the world's open source learning management system (LMS), used by universities, schools, companies, and organizations to deliver … | 75 | 7423 | stable |
| internetarchive/openlibrary Open Library is an open, editable library catalog from the Internet Archive aiming to create one web page for every book ever published, wi… | 95 | 6752 | active |
| humhub/humhub HumHub is an open-source (AGPLv3) enterprise social network and intranet collaboration platform written in PHP on the Yii2 framework. It of… | 95 | 6751 | stable |
| ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus Icarus is a simple, delicate, and modern theme for the Hexo static site generator, distributed as an npm package. It ships with extensive b… | 55 | 6652 | active |
| filipedeschamps/tabnews.com.br TabNews is the open-source codebase of a Brazilian community website for programming and technology discussions, where users publish posts … | 76 | 6381 | active |
| pallets-eco/flask-admin Flask-Admin is a batteries-included Flask extension for auto-generating administrative interfaces with CRUD views for your models. It is in… | 98 | 6066 | active |
| redmine/redmine Redmine is a flexible, self-hosted project management web application written in Ruby on Rails. It provides issue tracking, wikis, forums, … | 77 | 6050 | stable |
| thoughtbot/administrate Administrate is a Rails engine (gem) that generates flexible, customizable admin dashboards for Rails applications. It provides clean CRUD … | 69 | 6032 | stable |
| Guardian DotCom (theguardian.com) The backend Scala application powering theguardian.com, built as a set of Play Framework 2 services. It fetches content from the Guardian's… | 77 | 5899 | active |
| daattali/beautiful-jekyll Beautiful Jekyll is a ready-to-use Jekyll theme/template for quickly building beautiful personal sites, blogs, and simple project websites,… | 57 | 5827 | stable |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| talebook/talebook Talebook is a self-hosted personal e-book library management web application built on Calibre with a Nuxt 4 + Vue 3 frontend. It supports m… | 96 | 5804 | active |
| umputun/remark42 Remark42 is a self-hosted, privacy-focused comment engine written in Go that can be embedded into blogs and articles. It supports social an… | 100 | 5627 | stable |
| froala/wysiwyg-editor Froala is a commercial JavaScript WYSIWYG HTML rich text editor with 30+ plugins and integrations for frameworks like React, Vue, and Angul… | 93 | 5394 | active |
| blinkfox/hexo-theme-matery hexo-theme-matery is a feature-rich Hexo blog theme built with Material Design and responsive layout. It provides carousels, waterflow post… | 23 | 5357 | stable |
| isso-comments/isso Isso is a lightweight, self-hosted commenting server written in Python and JavaScript, designed as a drop-in replacement for Disqus. It emb… | 75 | 5313 | active |
| satnaing/astro-paper AstroPaper is a minimal, responsive, accessible and SEO-friendly blog theme built on the Astro static site generator with Tailwind CSS and … | 91 | 5082 | active |
| saicaca/fuwari Fuwari is a static blog template built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, featuring smooth animations, light/dark mode, and customizable theming.… | 56 | 5038 | active |
| vuepress-theme-vdoing Vdoing is a clean, efficient knowledge management and blog theme for VuePress, built with Vue and Markdown. It supports structured, fragmen… | 31 | 4894 | active |
| dokuwiki/dokuwiki DokuWiki is an open-source wiki engine written in PHP that stores content in plain text files, requiring no database. It has been actively … | 96 | 4729 | stable |
| Aimeos Aimeos is a full-featured, open-source PHP e-commerce framework that integrates with Laravel, Symfony, and TYPO3 to build online shops, mar… | 76 | 4537 | stable |
| zyx0814/dzzoffice DzzOffice is an open-source collaborative office suite for teams and enterprises, comparable to Google Workspace or Office 365, built in PH… | 78 | 4052 | active |
| zheng A distributed agile development system architecture based on Spring+SpringMVC+Mybatis (SSM) providing a full suite of common microservice m… | 32 | 16644 | maintenance |
| dillonzq/LoveIt LoveIt is a clean, elegant, and feature-rich blog theme for the Hugo static site generator. It offers dark mode, multilingual support, clie… | 73 | 3871 | active |
| jekyll/minima Minima is the default, one-size-fits-all Jekyll theme designed for writers, providing ready-made layouts for home pages, posts, and static … | 53 | 3837 | active |
| fastapi-admin/fastapi-admin FastAPI-Admin is a Python library that adds a Django-admin-style admin dashboard to FastAPI applications, built on TortoiseORM with the Tab… | 26 | 3829 | active |
| iview/iview-admin iView Admin is a Vue.js 2.0 admin management system template built on the iView UI toolkit. It provides a complete front-end back-office so… | 23 | 16338 | maintenance |
| unfoldadmin/django-unfold Unfold is a modern Django admin theme and toolkit built on top of django.contrib.admin, providing a Tailwind CSS-based interface with dark … | 93 | 3708 | active |
| mdx-editor/editor MDXEditor is an open-source React component providing a rich text WYSIWYG editor for markdown and MDX documents, built on the Lexical frame… | 94 | 3699 | active |
| varHarrie/varharrie.github.io A personal blog site application that uses GitHub issues as its content backend, eliminating the need for a separate server. Built with Rea… | 55 | 3677 | active |
| TerminusDB TerminusDB is an open-source document graph database with built-in git-like version control, storing JSON/JSON-LD documents in a schema-enf… | 91 | 3435 | active |
| Collabora Online Collabora Online is an open-source, self-hosted online office suite for collaborative editing of text documents, spreadsheets, presentation… | 98 | 3366 | active |
| kitian616/jekyll-TeXt-theme TeXt is a highly customizable Jekyll theme for building personal sites, team sites, blogs, project pages, and documentation. It offers mult… | 58 | 3344 | active |
| frappe/lms Frappe Learning is a 100% open-source Learning Management System built on the Frappe Framework for creating structured courses with videos,… | 95 | 3311 | active |
| zmister2016/MrDoc MrDoc is a self-hosted online document and knowledge base system built with Python and Django, supporting Markdown editing for individuals … | 93 | 3237 | active |
| yoopta-editor/Yoopta-Editor Yoopta-Editor is an open-source React rich-text editor library for building Notion-like, Craft-like, and Coda-like editing experiences. It … | 77 | 3087 | active |