Backdrop CMS Alternatives

Apps similar to Backdrop CMS include WordPress, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Ghost, Drupal, Blogger and Publii. You're spoiled for choice with CMS Tools like Backdrop CMS: we list more than 100 alternatives for self-hosting, Windows, Linux, the web and Mac.

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  1. Verless icon
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    verless (pronounced like serverless) is a Static Site Generator designed for Markdown-based content with focus on simplicity and performance. It reads your Markdown files, applies your HTML templates and renders them as a website.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
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  2. PHPixie icon
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    PHPixie is a modern component-based PHP 7 framework. It is thoroughly tested with high code coverage and provides blazing performance without sacrificing any features. All PHPixie components can also be used standalone and provide a great foundation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. MiddleMan icon
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    Middleman is a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. Check out middlemanapp.com for detailed tutorials, including a getting started guide. You can also follow @middlemanapp for updates.

    78 MiddleMan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
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  4. Frog icon
     1 like

    Frog is a static web site generator written in Racket.

    You write content in Markdown or Scribble. You generate files. To deploy, you push them to a GitHub Pages repo (or copy them to Amazon S3, or whatever).

    Posts get a variety of automatic blog features.

    You can also create n.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5.  1 like

    Teeny is a super simple static site generator built to suit my needs and my needs only.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  6. TomP2P icon
     4 likes

    A P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Expansive icon
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    Expansive is a powerful web site generator that quickly creates compelling web sites with dynamic content. It uses powerful templating, scripting and tooling to provide a complete web site creation environment to accelerate your web application development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. CushyCMS icon
     3 likes

    CushyCMS is a FREE hosted content management system thats actually easy to use, fast to setup and doesnt require programming skills.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. JoomBlog icon
     11 likes

    JoomBlog is Joomla CMS blog component that allow to create personal/team blog with smart navigation, comments and social share options. Advanced SEO features like Facebook meta tags and SEO score are also included.

    56 JoomBlog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Joomla
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  10. Mixcore CMS icon
     5 likes

    💮 Mixcore CMS is an open-source modular, multi-tenant application framework built on top of ASP.NET Core (Dotnet Core). It is a completed open source ASP.NET Core (Dotnet Core) CMS solution. https://mixcore.org.

    319 Mixcore CMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Free Website Builder Script is an open source website builder script allowing the administrator to create, run and manage multiple websites through one single multisite CMS.

    160 Free Website Builder Script alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Refinery CMS icon
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    Refinery is the most popular Ruby on Rails CMS and supports Rails 4.2. It's easy to extend and sticks to 'the Rails way' where possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
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