Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to WordPress.com

WordPress.com

Create a free website or build a blog with ease on WordPress.com. Dozens of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.

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The top open-source alternatives to WordPress.com are WordPress, Medium, 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
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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.
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- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Website Builder 786 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
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Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 3125 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.
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- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $36 / Monthly (100k views/month, 2 users)
#CMS #Blogging #Website Builder 196 social mentions
Elementor Landing Page
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Elementor

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

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 203 social mentions
Framer Landing Page
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Framer

🔥 Design real websites right on the canvas.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Builder #Prototyping #Website Design 19 social mentions
Hugo Landing Page
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Hugo

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 403 social mentions
Joomla Landing Page
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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.
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- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Website Builder 2 social mentions
GitHub Pages Landing Page
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GitHub Pages

A free, static web host for open-source projects on GitHub
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Builder #Cloud Computing #Static Site Generators 504 social mentions
Strapi Landing Page
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Strapi

Manage any content. Anywhere. The leading open-source headless CMS. 100% JavaScript / TypeScript and fully customizable.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 341 social mentions
Grav Landing Page
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Grav

The modern open source flat-file CMS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Website Builder 59 social mentions
Hexo Landing Page
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Hexo

A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 22 social mentions