Self-hosted projects tagged “Content Publishing”

Open-source digital newsroom platform for news creation, curation, workflow, and multi-channel distribution, built around an API-centric headless CMS.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Arc XP+13

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+14

Self-hostable game distribution platform for sharing DRM-free games, with a store UI, rich metadata management, and flexible authentication including SSO.

Go-based flat-file wiki that stores content as Markdown with built-in search, version history, and access control, without an external database.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+19

Omeka is a PHP-based open-source web publishing platform for managing, preserving and presenting metadata-rich digital collections and media-rich online exhibits.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Omeka.net+11

Omeka S is a modular PHP CMS for cultural heritage institutions to publish exhibits, manage digital collections, and share metadata across sites.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Omeka.net+11

MistServer is an open-source streaming media toolkit that supports HLS, DASH, RTMP, RTSP, SRT and WebRTC for low-latency live and VOD workflows.

UnlicenseActively maintained

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+13

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+10

Open-source Java LMS for course authoring, assessments and institutional learning management with SCORM/QTI support and REST API.

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Canvas LMS+14

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.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Drupal Cloud+19

Lightweight filesystem wiki engine using Git for history and Mycomarkup for content, suited for personal wikis, digital gardens and small teams.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Atlassian Confluence+19

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

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WordPress.com+12

Symfony-based polymorphic CMS using a node system, Twig theming, Doctrine ORM and API-first support for building headless or traditional sites.

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Contentful+18

REDAXO is a lightweight, modular PHP CMS offering block/module-based content editing, a media pool, multilingual support, and an extensible AddOn system.

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WordPress.com+10

A modern forum, wiki, and community hub for discussions, curated lists, and knowledgebases. Extensible, secure platform built with TypeScript and Go.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+14

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

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SmugMug+18

Open-source ECM for documents, web content, and team collaboration.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Alfresco Content Services+9

Open-source PHP and MySQL CMS focused on developer control, template-driven sites, modular content types, and an intuitive admin/editor experience.

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WordPress.com+12

Perl-based wiki engine focused on high-quality publishing, bookbuilding, EPUB/PDF output, Git and flat-file backends, and multi-database support.

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XWiki Cloud+13

Self-contained PHP photo publishing app with per-album organization, EXIF data, and optional geolocation maps.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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SmugMug+7

Open-source PHP script to launch a self-hosted video sharing site with playlists, collections, and social features.

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YouTube+10

Islandora is a Drupal module ecosystem for building institutional digital repositories with Fedora and Solr integrations, IIIF support, background processing and modular media handling.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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CONTENTdm+15

Modern, lightweight static wiki and documentation site generator using Markdown and Next.js with TypeScript-configurable navigation and themes.

MITActively maintained

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GitBook+14

Antville is a high-performance, multi-tenant blog hosting system implemented in server-side JavaScript (Helma). It supports relational databases, RSS, comments, themes and SMTP notifications.

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WordPress.com+9

Web app that recommends a single recipe adapted to the ingredients you have, with a Java backend and TypeScript front-end and Docker Compose deployment.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Allrecipes+2

Generate fast static sites and link homepages from YAML using templates. Offers multiple build configs, an admin UI, and static output for ultra-fast pages.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Start.me+14

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

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

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.