Backdrop CMS Alternatives

Backdrop CMS is described as 'Simple, lightweight, and easy to use Content Management System used to build attractive, professional websites. Use it for everything from a single-administrator's personal blog site, to a complex, multi-role, business e-commerce platform' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Backdrop CMS for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Mac apps. The best Backdrop CMS alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Backdrop CMS are Ghost, Drupal, Hugo and Blogger.

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Backdrop CMS alternatives page was last updated Sep 27, 2021
  1. Perch icon
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    Perch is a lightweight PHP content management system ideally suited to smaller websites.

    2 Perch alternatives
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    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
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    Tinysite is an attempt to create minimalistic secure blog engine for running a darknet blog site. It has only some basic features yet, e.g. adding and displaying posts, categories.

    121 Tinysite alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Hotspot JVM

    Tinysite Features

    1.  Dedicated Server Hosting
    2.  VPS Hosting
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  3. Ionize icon
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    Ionize is a free professional multilingual and user-friendly PHP Content Management System (CMS) based on CodeIgniter.

    166 Ionize alternatives
    Dashboard interface

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS

    Ionize Features

    1.  Content Management
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  4. Biskuit CMS icon
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    Bis[ku]it is a modular and lightweight CMS built with Symfony components and Vue.js, a renaissance of Pagekit.

    52 Biskuit CMS alternatives
    Home page (Butter theme)

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Discontinued

    The latest update is from August 2020.

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  5. Locomotive icon
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    LOCOMOTIVE is an open source CMS for Rails. It's super flexible and integrates with Heroku and Amazon S3.

    99 Locomotive alternatives
    Home page

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Locomotive iconBackdrop CMS Icon

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    It is an open source tool that provides a complete architecture for developing PHP applications. Is a framework that uses commonly known enterprise design patterns like MVC, ORM design patterns like Active Record and Repository.

    20 Adianti Framework alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Adianti Framework Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  Charts
    3.  Gtk
    4.  Reporting
    5.  Code generation
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  7. BrowserCMS icon
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    Open Source, Ruby on Rails Content Management System (CMS). [Free].

    100 BrowserCMS alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    BrowserCMS iconBackdrop CMS Icon

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  8. BlazeBlogger icon
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    BlazeBlogger is a simple to use but capable CMS for the command line. Being written in Perl as a cross-platform application, and producing static content without the need of database servers or server-side scripting, it is literally a CMS without boundaries suitable for a wide...

    126 BlazeBlogger alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    BlazeBlogger Features

    1.  Command line interface
    Discontinued

    Last version seems to be BlazeBlogger 1.2.0 from 2011-02-20, see http://blaze.blackened.cz/tags/release/

    BlazeBlogger iconBackdrop CMS Icon

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  9. ViUR.is icon
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    ViUR – the Information System for the Google App Engine™ plattform – is a »sandbox« for designers and developers. With the help of ViUR you can easy build web applications running on Google's infrastructure.

    27 ViUR.is alternatives
    /vi Administration

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    ViUR.is Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  Sandbox
    3.  Google Drive integration
    4.  Shopping Cart
    ViUR.is iconBackdrop CMS Icon

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  10. CMS.js icon
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    CMS.js is fully client-side, Javascript site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol' HTML, CSS and Javascript to generate your website.

    46 CMS.js alternatives
    CMS.js screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    CMS.js iconBackdrop CMS Icon

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    Croogo is a free, open source, content management system for PHP, released under The MIT License. It is powered by CakePHP MVC framework.

    85 croogo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    croogo iconBackdrop CMS Icon

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  12. BardCanvas icon
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    BardCanvas is an Open Source CMS that fits perfectly for blogs/forums/social networks. It is fast (through several cache levels), heavily optimized (it wont collapse the server in high traffic conditions) and constantly improved.

    264 BardCanvas alternatives
    BardCanvas screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    BardCanvas Features

    1.  Support for Multiple Users
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