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

     1673 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.

    120 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
    Positive
    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
  2. Drupal icon

    Drupal

     493 likes

    Open source CMS with modular architecture, structured content support, and thousands of modules for extensibility. Offers custom themes, robust security, integration capabilities, starter distributions, active community support, and is free under the GPL license with no vendor lock-in.

    210 Drupal alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  4. Jekyll icon

    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)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    WordPress icon
    WordPress

    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.

    https://wordpress.org
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  6. Hugo icon

    Hugo

     93 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.

    109 Hugo alternatives

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

    Joomla

     351 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.

    207 Joomla alternatives

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

    Grav

     137 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.

    189 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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    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.

    291 DEV Community alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    Website
     
  14. EmDash CMS icon

    EmDash CMS

     8 likes

    Full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare featuring extensible architecture, sandboxed plugins in Worker isolates, WordPress migration, visual schema builder, role-based access, rich text editing, AI integration, media management, and open source deployment.

    51 EmDash CMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Typescript
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