Best Self-hosted Content & Publishing tools in 2026

Self-hosted knowledge base web app in PHP/MySQL with Bootstrap UI and TinyMCE editor, offering categories, full-text search, user groups, email password resets and Docker support.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Document360+12

AI-driven tool that analyzes sites, finds keyword opportunities, and generates SEO-optimized blog posts with scheduling and one-click publishing.

MITActively maintained

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Surfer+6

Lightweight PHP wiki/CMS for spontaneous, heterogeneous websites; flat-file JSON storage, Markdown editing, media manager, themes, RSS, and mobile-friendly editing.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+12

Lightweight PHP wiki engine offering WYSIWYG editing, per-page ACLs, revision control, themes, file uploads, and support for MariaDB/MySQL/SQLite.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+17

Faridoon is a lightweight PHP application for saving, moderating, and publishing favorite chat quotes. It supports user accounts, admin approval, Docker deployment and MySQL.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Tumblr+8

Perl-based institutional repository platform for higher education. Manages research outputs with flexible metadata, workflows, OAI-PMH support and integrations.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Digital Commons+6

Open E-Label is an open-source web application that creates QR-code electronic labels for wine bottles, delivering multilingual product, ingredient and regulatory information to consumers.

Web-based IDE for Java 8 focused on teaching: teacher-managed assignments, JUnit auto-testing, isolated execution via Docker workers, and Gitea-backed projects.

MITSlowing down

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Codio+8

Go-based backend for Maker Management Platform that indexes STL libraries, renders model previews, provides a REST API, and supports Thingiverse imports.

BSD-2-ClauseLikely dormant

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Thingiverse

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

Actively maintained

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WooCommerce+6

Web-based tool to create church hymn sheets with drag-and-drop layout, embedded notation, templates, and PDF output.

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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WordPress.com+17

A lightweight open-source PHP blog engine with multilingual support, themes/plugins, media manager, and multi-database compatibility (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite).

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WordPress.com+9

Drupal is a flexible, extensible CMS and web framework for building content-rich websites, portals, and digital experiences with strong permissions and structured content.

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WordPress.com+13

Feather Wiki is a lightweight, self-contained wiki that runs from a single HTML file, with Markdown support and optional server-saving via WebDAV-style PUT.

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Notion+16

Hubzilla is a federated server platform for social networking, groups, publishing, and file sharing with strong privacy controls, nomadic identity, and SSO across hubs.

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+11

MediaWiki is an open source wiki engine for building collaborative knowledge bases with versioned pages, templates, categories, and a powerful extension system.

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Atlassian Confluence+16

Neos is a PHP-based content application platform (CMS) focused on structured content, inline editing, and a powerful content repository for building websites and content-driven apps.

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Adobe Experience Manager+11

Noosfero is a web platform for building community portals and social networks, combining CMS features with profiles, groups, and collaborative publishing.

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WordPress.com+14

Plone is an enterprise CMS built on Python and Zope, offering structured content, workflows, permissions, and optional headless APIs for secure websites and intranets.

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Adobe Experience Manager+19

PmWiki is a PHP-based wiki CMS for collaboratively building and maintaining websites with simple markup, skins, extensions, file uploads, and granular access control.

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Atlassian Confluence+13

Open-source assessment software for creating, delivering, and grading quizzes, exams, and surveys, with question banks, interoperability formats, and built-in gradebook analytics.

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Gradescope+8

ResourceSpace is an open-source digital asset management (DAM) system for storing, organizing, searching, and securely sharing files with metadata, permissions, and auditing.

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Bynder+19

Free, open source student information system for managing students, grades, scheduling, attendance, billing, and school administration in one web app.

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PowerSchool+12

SPIP is a free, multilingual CMS focused on collaborative publishing, editorial workflows, and flexible templating for websites, magazines, and organizational portals.

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WordPress.com+12

SeedDMS is an open source PHP document management system for organizing documents with versioning, permissions, workflows, search, and integrations like LDAP and WebDAV.

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Microsoft SharePoint+3

Open-source PHP content management system and MVC framework with admin UI, ORM, REST/GraphQL APIs, asset management and an extensible module ecosystem.

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WordPress.com+19

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is an all-in-one wiki, CMS, and groupware platform with extensive built-in features, including Trackers for low-code database-driven web apps.

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Atlassian Confluence+19

Trac is a minimalistic, web-based project management tool combining issue tracking, a wiki, and version control integration for Subversion and Git.

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Atlassian Jira+19

Webcap is a self-hosted tool to capture, screenshot, and archive web pages for later reference, sharing, and documentation.

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Visualping+9