Open Source Ghost AlternativesTop Blog Publishing & CMS Tools like Ghost

The best open source alternative to Ghost is WordPress. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Ghost and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Ghost are Drupal, Jekyll, Hugo and Publii.

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  1. WordPress icon

    WordPress

     1667 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.

    113 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
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    WordPress vs Ghost Comments
    John Fastman
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    1

    Wordpress is based on open source code, is more established in this field and has a much greater range of functionality, esp. though its community-driven plugin system. WP is more complicated also, but probably the "default" alternative, if there had to be one.

    Shoji VR
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    0

    Most popular CMS in the world that empowers almost half of websites in the world

    • WordPress is Freemium and Open SourceGhost is Free Personal and Open Source
    • WordPress is CustomizableGhost is not according to our users
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    Drupal

     493 likes

    Drupal is an open source platform for building amazing digital experiences. It's made by a dedicated community. Anyone can use it, and it will always be free.

    209 Drupal alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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    Jekyll

     126 likes

    Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Hugo icon

    Hugo

     92 likes

    Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages. Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more.

    104 Hugo alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Joomla icon

    Joomla

     350 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.

    204 Joomla alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    Home Dashboard
     
  10. Grav icon

    Grav

     136 likes

    Grav is an easy to use, yet powerful, opensource CMS that requires no database. In a nutshell, installing Grav is a matter of unzipping the file. It is fast, has sophisticated caching, and a light footprint for optimal performance.

    187 Grav alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    The dashboard
     
  11. ProcessWire icon

    ProcessWire

     164 likes

    ProcessWire is a friendly and powerful open source CMS and CMF with an exceptionally strong foundation. With all custom fields, an easy-to-use jQuery-inspired API, and a powerful page selector engine, ProcessWire will rise to any task.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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    ProcessWire vs Ghost Comments
    noelboss
    Positive
    1

    You can build everything with ProcessWire and still get blazing fast sites!

    • ProcessWire is Free and Open SourceGhost is Free Personal and Open Source
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    WriteFreely

     49 likes

    WriteFreely is an open-source, minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform. It was built for and by Write.as and can be used to power a similar community or just a single blog.

    Cost / License

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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    DEV Community

     30 likes

    Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow. It is an online community for sharing and discovering great ideas, having debates, and making friends. Anyone can share articles, questions, discussions, etc. as long as they have the rights to the words they are sharing.

    293 DEV Community alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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    Comma

     12 likes

    Comma is an open source blogging platform with a minimal and beautiful page.

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    • Online
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    Textpattern

     51 likes

    Textpattern is an elegant content management system that is free, open source software with privacy and separation of content/design at its foundation.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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