Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Ghost

Ghost

Ghost is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running a modern online publication. We power blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.

As Ghost is an open source project, you can find more open source alternatives and stats on LibHunt.

Product categories

API Tools API-first CMS Blogging Blogging Platform CMS JavaScript React Realtime Backend / API Social & Communications Static Site Generators Web Content Management Website Builder

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Ghost are WordPress, Medium, and Joomla. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

WordPress Landing Page
1

WordPress

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 764 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
2

Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2197 social mentions
Joomla Landing Page
3

Joomla

Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 2 social mentions
Grav Landing Page
4

Grav

The modern open source flat-file CMS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Website Builder #Blogging 47 social mentions
Jekyll Landing Page
5

Jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 180 social mentions
Hugo Landing Page
6

Hugo

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 354 social mentions
Strapi Landing Page
7

Strapi

Strapi is the most advanced Node.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 310 social mentions
Publii Landing Page
8

Publii

Open Source CMS for Static Websites
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 59 social mentions
GatsbyJS Landing Page
9

GatsbyJS

Blazing-fast static site generator for React
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 14 social mentions
Wagtail CMS Landing Page
10

Wagtail CMS

Django-based Content Management System.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 39 social mentions
Sanity.io Landing Page
11

Sanity.io

Sanity.io a platform for structured content that comes with an open-source editor that you can customize with React.js.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#CMS #API Tools #Realtime Backend / API 55 social mentions
Craft CMS Landing Page
12

Craft CMS

Content management system built on Yii PHP Framework
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging Platform #Blogging 31 social mentions