Self-hosted projects tagged “Blog

33 open source projects with this tag

33 services found

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Ghost

Publishing platform with newsletters and paid memberships

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

MITActively maintained
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Ghost(Pro)
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Halo

Extensible open-source website builder and CMS

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10.3k
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Halo is an open-source CMS and site builder with themes, plugins, an editor, backups, REST APIs, and optional AI extensions for content and knowledge sites.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained
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WordPress.com
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WordPress

Open-source content management system for websites and blogs

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

Actively maintained
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WordPress.com
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Grav

Flat-file PHP CMS using Markdown, Twig and YAML

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

MITActively maintained
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WordPress.com
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WriteFreely

Minimalist federated blogging platform focused on writing

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WriteFreely is a clean, Markdown-based publishing platform for creating minimalist blogs and communities, with ActivityPub federation and low-resource Go deployment.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained
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Micro.blog
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Microweber

Drag-and-drop CMS and website builder with built-in e-commerce

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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.

MITSlowing down
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Wix
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BroadcastChannel

Generate a microblog site from a Telegram channel

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BroadcastChannel turns a public Telegram Channel into a fast, SEO-friendly microblog website with RSS feeds and minimal client-side JavaScript.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained
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Micro.blog
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Ech0

Lightweight open-source self-hosted federated publishing platform

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Ech0 is a lightweight open-source, self-hosted federated publishing platform (ActivityPub) with a Vue-based UI, SQLite storage, Docker deployment and built-in Markdown editor.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained
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Micro.blog
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Movim

Federated blogging and chat web client for XMPP

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Movim is a federated social platform and web-based XMPP client for blogging, chat, communities, and real-time messaging with a responsive cross‑platform interface.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained
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Element Matrix (Hosted)
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Publify

Ruby on Rails multi-user blogging and publishing platform

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Open-source Ruby on Rails blogging and publishing platform (formerly Typo) with themes, plugins, multilingual support and an official demo.

MITActively maintained
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WordPress.com
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Elgg

Open source social networking engine built in PHP and MySQL.

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Elgg is a modular open source platform for building social networks and collaborative communities with plugin-based extensions.

Actively maintained
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Facebook
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Bludit

Flat-file CMS for fast, database-free websites and blogs

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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.

MITActively maintained
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WordPress.com
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HTMLy

Databaseless PHP blogging platform and flat-file CMS

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HTMLy is a fast, databaseless PHP blogging platform and flat-file CMS with built-in search, themes, categories/tags, and an admin dashboard for managing content.

GPL-2.0Slowing down
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WordPress.com
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Open Source Social Network (OSSN)

PHP social networking software for building online communities

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563
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Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is PHP-based social networking software to build your own community site with profiles, newsfeed, groups, chat, photos, and admin tools.

Actively maintained
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Threads
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Known

Open-source social publishing platform for self-hosted sites

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197
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Open-source publishing platform enabling multi-user blogs, status updates, and media on your own site.

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WordPress.com
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Automad

Flat-file CMS with a built-in template engine and headless mode

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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.

Actively maintained
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WordPress.com
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Textpattern CMS

Lightweight PHP content management system with a tag-based template engine

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Textpattern CMS is a lightweight, extensible PHP CMS for building blogs and websites with a tag-based templating system, plugins, and a streamlined admin interface.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained
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WordPress.com
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Haven

Privacy-first, self-hosted private blogging platform (Ruby on Rails)

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Private, self-hosted blogging app with Markdown editor, private RSS, built-in reader, and Docker/Postgres deployment options.

MITActively maintained
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Medium
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WonderCMS

Lightweight flat-file CMS for small websites and blogs

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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.

MITActively maintained
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WordPress.com
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Chyrp Lite

Ultra-lightweight PHP blogging engine with extensible modules

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Minimal, accessible PHP blogging engine with Twig themes, modular Feathers and modules for media, tags, comments, and simple caching. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained
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WordPress.com
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CouchCMS

Lightweight CMS to make static HTML templates editable

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

Actively maintained
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WordPress.com
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fx

Lightweight Rust microblogging and personal blog engine

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Self-hosted, low-footprint microblogging and blog engine in Rust with Markdown posts, file uploads, RSS following, backups, and built-in search.

MITActively maintained
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Micro.blog
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Zenphoto

Open-source, gallery-focused PHP CMS for media websites

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

Actively maintained
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SmugMug
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PluXml

Lightweight PHP flat-file CMS for blogs and small websites

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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.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained
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WordPress.com
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Serendipity

Extensible PHP weblog engine with themes and plugins

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Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog engine offering a lightweight blog platform with plugins, themes, media library, comments, and multi-database support.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained
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WordPress.com
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FlatPress

Lightweight PHP flat-file blogging engine with themes and plugins

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File-based PHP blogging engine that requires no database. Provides Smarty-powered themes, a plugin/widget system, comments with spam protection, and easy backups.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained
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WordPress.com
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Live Blog

Open-source live blogging platform for newsroom coverage

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Live Blog is an open-source platform for live, real-time coverage of events with embeddable timelines, media and social content, editor workflows and API support.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained
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ScribbleLive
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TuxSEO

AI-powered platform for generating SEO-optimized blog content

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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
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LibreServer

Debian-based personal server to run email, chat, VoIP, wikis and social services

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A small Debian-based server system for self-hosting email, chat, VoIP, wikis, blogs, social networks and other community services on modest hardware.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained
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YunoHost
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Dotclear

Open-source PHP blogging and web-publishing platform

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
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