WordPress alternatives

The most-starred open source alternative to WordPress is Halo. Other notable options: Wagtail, Grav, EmDash, Typecho. All of them are free to download and most can run on your own server.

Halo40.1k

halo-dev/halo

Powerful open source site builder for blogs and knowledge bases.

Alternative to: WordPress

LicenseOpen sourceGPL-3.0

CategoryWeb & CMSSelf-hosted

LanguageJava

Last updatetoday

PlatformsWebDocker

Wagtail20.6k

wagtail/wagtail

Django-based content management system with a flexible page model and a user-friendly editing interface for editors.

Alternative to: WordPress

LicenseOpen sourceBSD-3-Clause

CategoryWeb & CMSSelf-hosted

LanguagePython

Last update1 days ago

PlatformsDocker

Grav15.7k

getgrav/grav

PHP flat-file CMS that stores pages as Markdown files and needs no database.

Alternative to: WordPress

LicenseOpen sourceMIT

CategoryWeb & CMSSelf-hosted

LanguagePHP

Last updatetoday

PlatformsWeb

EmDash14.2k

emdash-cms/emdash

Full-stack TypeScript content management system built on Astro as a modern WordPress successor

Alternative to: WordPress

LicenseOpen sourceMIT

CategoryWeb & CMSSelf-hosted

LanguageTypeScript

Last updatetoday

PlatformsWebDocker

Typecho12.5k

typecho/typecho

Simple, lightweight PHP blogging platform that is easy to install and extend with plugins

Alternative to: WordPress

LicenseOpen sourceGPL-2.0

CategoryWeb & CMSSelf-hosted

LanguagePHP

Last update8 days ago

PlatformsWebDocker

October CMS11.2k

octobercms/october

Self-hosted CMS platform based on Laravel, with a plugin system and flexible themes

Alternative to: WordPress

LicenseOpen source

CategoryWeb & CMSSelf-hosted

LanguagePHP

Last update1 days ago

PlatformsWebDocker

django CMS10.7k

django-cms/django-cms

Enterprise content management system built on Django with front-end page editing

Alternative to: WordPress

LicenseOpen source

CategoryWeb & CMSSelf-hosted

LanguagePython

Last updatetoday

PlatformsWebDocker

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