Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to WordPress

Product categories

API Tools API-first CMS Blogging Blogging Platform CMS Enterprise Content Management JAMstack JavaScript Online Marketplace Static Site Generators Web Content Management Website Builder

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to WordPress are Ghost, Joomla, and Medium. 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.

Ghost Landing Page
1

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
Joomla Landing Page
2

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
Medium Landing Page
3

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
Grav Landing Page
4

Grav

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

Strapi

Strapi is the most advanced Node.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 310 social mentions
Jekyll Landing Page
6

Jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 180 social mentions
Hugo Landing Page
7

Hugo

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 353 social mentions
Craft CMS Landing Page
8

Craft CMS

Content management system built on Yii PHP Framework
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging Platform #Blogging 31 social mentions
Statamic Landing Page
9

Statamic

Build better, easier to manage websites. Enjoy radical efficiency. It's everything you never knew you always wanted in a CMS.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $259.0 / One-off (Pro License)
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 48 social mentions
Elementor Landing Page
10

Elementor

Elementor is a front-end drag & drop page builder for WordPress.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Design #Website Builder #CMS 61 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
Magento Landing Page
12

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