20 self-hosted Wix alternatives

Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs and websites with built-in newsletters, membership management, and paid subscriptions.

55.1k stars11.9k forksMITlast commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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 27 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Open-source flat-file CMS for PHP that uses Markdown, Twig templates and YAML configs with a package manager for fast, flexible sites.

15.7k stars1.4k forksMITlast commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

WooCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress, enabling customizable online stores with products, checkout, payments, shipping, taxes, and extensions.

10.5k stars10.7k forkslast commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Open-source TypeScript eCommerce platform for building customizable online stores with React and GraphQL, including catalog, checkout, orders, and an admin dashboard.

10.4k stars2.4k forksGPL-3.0last commit 12 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Joomla! is an open-source PHP CMS for building and managing websites with templates, extensions, multilingual support, and granular user permissions.

5.1k stars3.9k forksGPL-2.0last commit 26 Aug 2026Actively 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.

3.4k stars936 forksMITlast commit 14 Aug 2025Slowing 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.

2.9k stars668 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 21 Aug 2026Actively 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.

1.5k stars334 forksMITlast commit 24 Aug 2026Actively maintained

A PHP-based CMS with a visual page builder, multi-site, localization, ecommerce, and GraphQL/REST APIs.

1.2k stars211 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 5 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Automad is a fast, lightweight flat-file CMS with an admin dashboard, block editor, in-page editing, theme/package support, and an optional headless JSON API.

927 stars55 forkslast commit 23 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Thelia is an open-source e-commerce platform built on Symfony for creating and managing customizable online stores, content, and integrations via APIs and modules.

876 stars318 forksGPL-3.0last commit 26 Aug 2026Actively 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 25 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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 24 Aug 2026Actively maintained

CouchCMS is a PHP-based lightweight CMS that converts static HTML/CSS templates into editable sites with cloned pages, forms, comments and RSS.

376 stars86 forkslast commit 26 Apr 2026Actively maintained

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

319 stars129 forkslast commit 19 Aug 2026Actively 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.

234 stars70 forksGPL-3.0last commit 3 Aug 2026Actively maintained

A free Laravel eCommerce solution providing product, cart, order, customer management, CMS pages, plugins, multi-language and multi-currency support.

11 stars3 forkslast commit 24 Aug 2026Actively 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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Drupal Commerce is a modular e-commerce framework for Drupal, providing products, carts, checkout, orders, payments, and integrations for building custom online stores.

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