WordPress is an open-source CMS for building and managing websites and blogs with themes, a block editor, and a large plugin ecosystem.
21.4k stars13k forkslast commit Actively maintained
9 self-hosted SITE123 alternatives
Hosted website builder for creating and publishing websites, landing pages, and online stores using a visual editor and templates. Provides managed hosting, domain connection, basic SEO tools, and built-in e-commerce features.
Alternatives to SITE123
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.
3.4k stars936 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
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Open-source no-code website builder to visually create fast static websites, with optional HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing and integrations for CMS and APIs.
2.9k stars668 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
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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.
1.5k stars334 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.
736 stars167 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
#6
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.
436 stars172 forksLGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
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A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.
319 stars129 forkslast commit Actively maintained
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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.
234 stars70 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
CMS Made Simple is an open source CMS focused on easy website management, flexible design with Smarty templates, extensibility via modules, and a developer-friendly API.
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What replacing SITE123 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. 7 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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