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9 self-hosted Jimdo alternatives

Jimdo is a hosted website builder that enables individuals and small businesses to create websites, blogs, and online stores using templates and drag-and-drop editing; it includes hosting, domain management, e-commerce features, and basic SEO tools.

Alternatives to Jimdo

WordPress is an open-source CMS for building and managing websites and blogs with themes, a block editor, and a large plugin ecosystem.

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21.3k stars13k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Microweber is a drag-and-drop CMS and website builder for creating pages, blogs, and online stores with live editing, modules, and template-based design.

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3.4k stars934 forksMITlast commit Slowing down

Open-source no-code website builder to visually create fast static websites, with optional HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing and integrations for CMS and APIs.

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2.9k stars662 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Bludit is a simple, fast flat-file CMS that stores content as JSON, enabling database-free websites and blogs with themes, plugins, and Markdown/HTML editing.

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1.5k stars332 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

WonderCMS is a tiny flat-file CMS for building fast websites and blogs with in-place editing, themes/plugins, and one-click updates and backups—no database required.

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735 stars165 forksMITlast commit Slowing down

Contao is an open-source PHP CMS for building professional, accessible, SEO-friendly and performant websites and web applications; extensible via Symfony bundles and Composer.

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432 stars171 forksLGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.

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318 stars129 forkslast commit Actively maintained

A PHP flat-file CMS that stores content in XML files, providing a portable, database-free platform with themes, plugins, media manager, comments and multilingual support.

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235 stars71 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down

What replacing Jimdo actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 5 of 9 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, AGPL-3.0, LGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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