Open source alternatives to WordPress
2 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what WordPress does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What WordPress does
- Blog and page publishingcore
- Themes for site designcore
- Plugins to extend featurescore
- Media library
- User accounts and roles
- Comments
- Visual block editor
- SEO and e-commerce add-ons
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 InstaticSelf-hosted visual CMS that outputs static pages with users and plugins |
Replaces it73% | 9.1k+31 | 33 days ago | 33% | Needs a server | MIT | |
Covers 2 of 3 core jobs. Partly: Themes for site design. Not shown: Comments; SEO and e-commerce add-ons.See the evidence
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 hatamotoSelf-hosted CMS in Go with signed WebAssembly plugins and auto-updates |
Not checked yet | 32+5 | yesterday | 89% | Needs a server | Apache-2.0 | |
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