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Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) Software

Found 38 self-hosted alternatives in this category.

LGPL-3.0

Alfresco Community Edition

The open source Enterprise Content Management software that handles any type of content, allowing users to easily share and collaborate on content

MIT

Apostrophe

CMS with a focus on extensible in-context editing tools. ([Demo](https://apostrophecms.com/demo), [Source Code](https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe))

MIT

Automad

Flat-file content management system and template engine. ([Demo](https://try.automad.org/), [Source Code](https://github.com/marcantondahmen/automad))

GPL-2.0

Backdrop CMS

Comprehensive CMS for small to medium sized businesses and non-profits

LGPL-2.1

BigTree CMS

Straightforward, well documented, and capable CMS

MIT

Bolt CMS

Content Management Tool, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible

GPL-2.0

CMS Made Simple

Faster and easier management of website contents, scalable for small businesses to large corporations

MIT

Cockpit

Simple content platform to manage any structured content

MIT

Concrete 5 CMS

Open source content management system

LGPL-3.0

Contao

Powerful CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications. ([Demo](https://demo.contao.org/contao), [Source Code](https://github.com/contao/contao/))

CPAL-1.0

CouchCMS

CMS for designers

GPL-2.0

Drupal

Advanced open source content management platform

AGPL-3.0

eLabFTW

Online lab notebook for research labs. Store experiments, use a database to find reagents or protocols, use trusted timestamping to legally timestamp an experiment, export as pdf or zip archive, share with collaborators…. ([Demo](https://demo.elabftw.net), [Source Code](https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw))

MIT

Expressa

Content Management System for powering database driven websites using JSON schemas. Provides permission management and automatic REST APIs

GPL-2.0

Joomla!

Advanced Content Management System (CMS)

MIT

KeystoneJS

CMS and web application platform

GPL-2.0

MODX

Advanced content management and publishing platform. The current version is called 'Revolution'

GPL-3.0

Neos

Neos or TYPO3 Neos (for version 1) is a modern, open source CMS

AGPL-3.0

Noosfero

Platform for social and solidarity economy networks with blog, e-Portfolios, CMS, RSS, thematic discussion, events agenda and collective intelligence for solidarity economy in the same system

GPL-3.0

Omeka

Create complex narratives and share rich collections, adhering to Dublin Core standards with Omeka on your server, designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts. ([Demo](https://omeka.org/classic/showcase/), [Source Code](https://github.com/omeka/Omeka))

MIT

Payload CMS

Developer-first headless CMS and application framework

GPL-3.0

Pimcore

Multi-channel experience and engagement management platform

ZPL-2.0

Plone

Powerful open-source CMS system

MIT

Publify

Simple but full featured web publishing software

MIT

REDAXO

Simple, flexible and useful content management system (documentation in German)

BSD-3-Clause

SilverStripe

Easy to use CMS with powerful MVC framework underlying. ([Demo](https://demo.silverstripe.org/), [Source Code](https://github.com/silverstripe))

GPL-3.0

SPIP

Publication system for the Internet aimed at collaborative work, multilingual environments, and simplicity of use for web authors

MIT

Squidex

Headless CMS, based on MongoDB, CQRS and Event Sourcing. ([Demo](https://cloud.squidex.io), [Source Code](https://github.com/Squidex/squidex))

MIT

Strapi

The most advanced open-source Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful API with no effort

GPL-2.0

Textpattern

Flexible, elegant and easy-to-use CMS. ([Demo](https://textpattern.co/demo), [Source Code](https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern))

MIT

Typemill

Author-friendly flat-file-cms with a visual markdown editor based on vue.js

GPL-2.0

TYPO3

Powerful and advanced CMS with a large community

MIT

Umbraco

The friendly CMS. Free and open source with an amazing community

AGPL-3.0

Vvveb CMS

Powerful and easy to use CMS to build websites, blogs or e-commerce stores. ([Demo](https://demo.vvveb.com), [Source Code](https://github.com/givanz/Vvveb))

BSD-3-Clause

Wagtail

Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

MIT

WinterCMS

Speedy and secure content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework

MIT

WonderCMS

WonderCMS is the smallest flat file CMS since 2008. ([Demo](https://www.wondercms.com/demo), [Source Code](https://github.com/WonderCMS/wondercms))

GPL-2.0

WordPress

World's most-used blogging and CMS engine