List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for Content Management Systems (CMS)

Content Management Systems offer a practical way to setup a website with many features, using third party plugins, themes and functionality that are easy to add and customize.

Alfresco Community Edition – The open source Enterprise Content Management software that handles any type of content, allowing users to easily share and collaborate on content. LGPL-3.0 Java
Apostrophe – CMS with a focus on extensible in-context editing tools. MIT Nodejs
b2evolution CMS – The most integrated CMS ever: b2evolution includes everything you need to build websites for publishing, sharing and interacting with your community. GPL-2.0 PHP
Backdrop CMS – Comprehensive CMS for small to medium sized businesses and non-profits. GPL-2.0 PHP
BigTree CMS – Straightforward, well documented, and capable written with PHP and MySQL. LGPL-2.1 PHP
Bludit ⚠ – Simple application to build a site or blog in seconds. Bludit uses flat-files (text files in JSON format) to store posts and pages. MIT PHP
Bolt CMS – Open source Content Management Tool, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible. MIT PHP
CMS Made Simple – Open source content management system, faster and easier management of website contents, scalable for small businesses to large corporations. GPL-2.0 PHP
Cockpit – Simple Content Platform to manage any structured content. MIT PHP
Concrete 5 CMS – Open source content management system. MIT PHP
Contao – Contao is a powerful open source CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications. LGPL-3.0 PHP
CouchCMS – Simple Open-Source CMS for designers. CPAL-1.0 PHP
Drupal – Advanced open source content management platform. GPL-2.0 PHP
eLabFTW – Online lab notebook for research labs. Store experiments, use a database to find reagents or protocols, use trusted timestamping to legally timestamp an experiment, export as pdf or zip archive, share with collaborators…. AGPL-3.0 PHP
Expressa – Content Management System for powering database driven websites using JSON schemas. Provides permission management and automatic REST APIs. MIT Nodejs
Flextype – Flextype is an open-source Hybrid Content Management System with the freedom of a headless CMS and with the full functionality of a traditional CMS. MIT PHP
GetSimple CMS – The Simplest Content Management System. Ever. GPL-3.0 PHP
Joomla! – Advanced Content Management System (CMS). GPL-2.0 PHP
KeystoneJS – CMS and Web Application Platform. MIT Nodejs
MODX – MODX is an advanced content management and publishing platform. The current version is called ‘Revolution’. (Source Code) GPL-2.0 PHP
Neos – Neos or TYPO3 Neos (for version 1) is a modern, open source CMS. GPL-3.0 PHP
Noosfero – Noosfero is a web platform for social and solidarity economy networks with blog, e-Portfolios, CMS, RSS, thematic discussion, events agenda and collective intelligence for solidarity economy in the same system. AGPL-3.0 Ruby
Omeka – Create complex narratives and share rich collections, adhering to Dublin Core standards with Omeka on your server, designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts. (Demo, Source Code) GPL-3.0 PHP
Payload CMS – Developer-first headless CMS and application framework. MIT Nodejs
Pico – Stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS. MIT PHP
Pimcore – Multi-Channel Experience and Engagement Management Platform. GPL-3.0-or-later PHP
Plone – Powerful open-source CMS system. ZPL-2.0 Python
PropertyWebBuilder – Ultimate Ruby on Rails engine for creating real estate websites. MIT Ruby
Publify – Simple but full featured web publishing software. MIT Ruby
Rapido – Create your website with Rapido. Edit, publish and share collaborative content. AGPL-3.0 Go
REDAXO – Simple, flexible and useful content management system (documentation only available in German). MIT PHP
Roadiz – Modern CMS based on a node system which can handle many types of services. MIT PHP
SilverStripe – Easy to use CMS with powerful MVC framework underlying. BSD-3-Clause PHP
SPIP – Publication system for the Internet aimed at collaborative work, multilingual environments, and simplicity of use for web authors. GPL-3.0 PHP
Squidex – Headless CMS, based on MongoDB, CQRS and Event Sourcing. MIT .NET
Strapi – The most advanced open-source Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful API with no effort. MIT Nodejs
Textpattern – Flexible, elegant and easy-to-use CMS. GPL-2.0 PHP
Typemill – Author-friendly flat-file-cms with a visual markdown editor based on vue.js. MIT PHP
TYPO3 – Powerful and advanced CMS with a large community. GPL-2.0 PHP
Umbraco – The friendly CMS. Free and open source with an amazing community. MIT .NET
Wagtail – Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience. BSD-3-Clause Python
WinterCMS – Speedy and secure content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. (Source Code) MIT PHP
WonderCMS – WonderCMS is the smallest flat file CMS since 2008. MIT PHP
WordPress – World’s most-used blogging and CMS engine. GPL-2.0 PHP