Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to LightCMS

Product categories

Blogging Blogging Platform CMS CMS API Enterprise Content Management Headless CMS JavaScript No Code Online Marketplace Static Site Generators Web Content Management Website Builder

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to LightCMS are WordPress, Pico, and Ghost. 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
Pico Landing Page
2

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Pico

A stupidly simple and blazing fast, flat file CMS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 9 social mentions
Ghost Landing Page
3

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $36.0 / Monthly (100k views/month, 2 users)
#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 173 social mentions
Craft CMS Landing Page
4

Craft CMS

Content management system built on Yii PHP Framework
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging Platform #Blogging 31 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
Magento Landing Page
6

Magento

Magento is the eCommerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Grow your online business with Magento.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#eCommerce #Online Marketplace #eCommerce Platform 12 social mentions
OctoberCMS Landing Page
7

OctoberCMS

October CMS is a free and open source content management system (CMS) that is self hosted. Written in PHP and using the Laravel application framework, October CMS allows web developers to create dynamic web sites.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 8 social mentions
MODx Landing Page
8

MODx

modx is a free, fast & flexible, ajax and seo content management system
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging Platform #Web Frameworks 4 social mentions
Plone Landing Page
9

Plone

Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management — Plone.org
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 2 social mentions
Cosmic JS Landing Page
10

Cosmic JS

Cosmic JS is an API-first Headless CMS for building content-powered apps in any programming language.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Headless CMS #CMS #Blogging 2 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
11

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 2190 social mentions
Weld Landing Page
12

Weld

Create websites with any design, for any device, for free, including domain.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Builder #CMS #Website Design