Content Management Systems (CMS)

Explore powerful content management systems for building websites and managing digital content

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Content Management Systems offer a practical way to setup a website with many features, using third party plugins, themes and functionality that are easy to add and customize.

Related categories: Blogging Platforms, Static Site Generators, and Photo Galleries

Featured CMS Platforms

WordPress

World’s most-used blogging and CMS engine with extensive plugin ecosystem

Drupal

Advanced open source content management platform for enterprise websites

Joomla!

Advanced Content Management System with powerful extensions

Strapi

Headless CMS with powerful API and no-effort content management

All CMS Applications

Enterprise & Full-Featured CMS

Alfresco Community Edition - The open source Enterprise Content Management software that handles any type of content.

• Source Code
• License: LGPL-3.0
• Platform: Java

Drupal - Advanced open source content management platform.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

Joomla! - Advanced Content Management System (CMS).

• Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

TYPO3 - Powerful and advanced CMS with a large community.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

WordPress - World’s most-used blogging and CMS engine.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

Headless CMS

Payload CMS - Developer-first headless CMS and application framework.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: Nodejs

Squidex - Headless CMS, based on MongoDB, CQRS and Event Sourcing.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: .NET

Strapi - The most advanced open-source Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful API with no effort.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: Nodejs

Lightweight & Simple CMS

Apostrophe - CMS with a focus on extensible in-context editing tools.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: Nodejs

Automad - Flat-file content management system and template engine.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP/Docker

Bludit ⚠ - Build a site or blog in seconds. Bludit uses flat-files (text files in JSON format) to store posts and pages.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP

Bolt CMS - Content Management Tool, which strives to be as simple and straightforward as possible.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP

Cockpit - Simple content platform to manage any structured content.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP

WonderCMS - WonderCMS is the smallest flat file CMS since 2008.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP

Specialized CMS

eLabFTW - Online lab notebook for research labs. Store experiments, use a database to find reagents or protocols.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Platform: PHP

Expressa - Content Management System for powering database driven websites using JSON schemas.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: Nodejs

KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: Nodejs

Localess ⚠ - Powerful translation management and content management system.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: Docker

Omeka - Create complex narratives and share rich collections, adhering to Dublin Core standards.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: PHP

Plone - Powerful open-source CMS system.

• Source Code
• License: ZPL-2.0
• Platform: Python/Docker

Wagtail - Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience.

• Source Code
• License: BSD-3-Clause
• Platform: Python

Additional CMS Options

Backdrop CMS - Comprehensive CMS for small to medium sized businesses and non-profits.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

BigTree CMS - Straightforward, well documented, and capable CMS.

• Source Code
• License: LGPL-2.1
• Platform: PHP

CMS Made Simple - Faster and easier management of website contents, scalable for small businesses to large corporations.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

Concrete 5 CMS - Open source content management system.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP

Contao - Powerful CMS that allows you to create professional websites and scalable web applications.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: LGPL-3.0
• Platform: PHP

CouchCMS - CMS for designers.

• Source Code
• License: CPAL-1.0
• Platform: PHP

MODX - Advanced content management and publishing platform.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

Neos - Modern, open source CMS.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: PHP

Noosfero - Platform for social and solidarity economy networks with blog, e-Portfolios, CMS, RSS.

• Source Code
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Platform: Ruby

Pimcore - Multi-channel experience and engagement management platform.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: PHP/Docker

Publify - Simple but full featured web publishing software.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: Ruby

REDAXO - Simple, flexible and useful content management system (documentation in German).

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP/Docker

SilverStripe - Easy to use CMS with powerful MVC framework underlying.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: BSD-3-Clause
• Platform: PHP

SPIP - Publication system for the Internet aimed at collaborative work, multilingual environments.

• Source Code
• License: GPL-3.0
• Platform: PHP

Superdesk ⚠ - End-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution, and publishing platform.

• Source Code
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Platform: Docker/Python/PHP

Textpattern - Flexible, elegant and easy-to-use CMS.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: GPL-2.0
• Platform: PHP

Typemill - Author-friendly flat-file-cms with a visual markdown editor based on vue.js.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP

Umbraco - The friendly CMS. Free and open source with an amazing community.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: .NET

Vvveb CMS - Powerful and easy to use CMS to build websites, blogs or e-commerce stores.

• Demo | Source Code
• License: AGPL-3.0
• Platform: PHP/Docker

WinterCMS - Speedy and secure content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework.

• Source Code
• License: MIT
• Platform: PHP