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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to WordPress.com

WordPress Medium DomainRacer Elementor Ghost GoogieHost Joomla Hugo Jekyll Grav

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to WordPress.com are WordPress, Medium, and DomainRacer. 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.
  1. 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

  2. 2
    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 2200 social mentions

  3. Best, Reliable, Affordable, Cheap Hosting Platform. Business Hosting with 99.99% uptime, Unlimited Disk, Bandwidth, Domains, Reseller Hosting, Reliable and Low Cost. Limited Time 60% OFF, Best Hosting Provider 2023.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free Trial
    • $0.99 / Monthly

    #Web Hosting #Domain Registration #Hosting 92 user reviews

  4. Elementor is a front-end drag & drop page builder for WordPress.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Website Design #Website Builder #CMS 61 social mentions

  5. 5
    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

  6. GoogieHost ♥ provides 100% Unlimited free web hosting with cPanel, Php 8.2, MySQL, FTP support, Unlimited SSD Disk Space, and Bandwidth. We hosted Websites with 11,34,563+ users all over the world!
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial

    #Web Hosting #Free Web Hosting #Hosting 3 social mentions

  7. 7
    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

  8. 8
    Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 354 social mentions

  9. 9
    Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 180 social mentions

  10. 10
    The modern open source flat-file CMS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #CMS #Website Builder #Blogging 47 social mentions

  11. A free, static web host for open-source projects on GitHub
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing #Blogging 466 social mentions

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    Strapi is the most advanced Node.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 310 social mentions

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