CMS Made Simple AlternativesOnly Self-Hosted apps categorised as Website Builders

There are many alternatives to CMS Made Simple as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best Self-Hosted Website Builder alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to CMS Made Simple and many of them are Website Builders available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted Website Builder alternatives to CMS Made Simple are Ghost, Joomla, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware and Chyrp Lite.

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  1. WordPress icon
     1675 likes

    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

    125 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
     
  2. Ghost icon
     258 likes

    The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.

    278 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
  3. Joomla icon
     353 likes

    Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular web site software available.

    208 Joomla alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  4. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (40+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP + Smarty, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Bootstrap.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  5. Chyrp Lite icon
     7 likes

    Chyrp Lite makes it possible to host a blog on your own web server with minimal fuss. You can have a traditional blog, a tumbleblog, or you can add oodles of customisation and build a web publishing platform with blogging features on the side.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  6. Backdrop CMS icon
     11 likes

    Backdrop CMS is a 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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Lavalite icon
     6 likes

    LavaLite is an open source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and Laravel web application framework. It currently supports MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB and PostgreSQL for the database backend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  8. Umbraco icon
     12 likes

    Umbraco is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
     
  9. blogstrap.py icon
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    blogstrap.py is a simple, no frills blog content management system powered by Twitter's Bootstrap and web.py. It features most things you would come to expect from a simple blogging platform. You can browse posts by category or subcategory, see recent posts, and mark...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  10. Batflat icon
     3 likes

    Bootstrap ready CMS for free. Just download and create kick-ass website in a few minutes.

    140 Batflat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
    • SQLite
    • Bootstrap
     
  11. liveSite icon
     3 likes

    The enterprise website solution without the enterprise price tag. liveSite is a back-end website engine that can drive any front-end website design. It includes CMS, Blogging, eCommerce, Online Forms, Calendaring, and automated Email Campaign features all businesses and...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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