MODX AlternativesCMS & Blog Publishing Tools like MODX

MODX is described as 'The MODX Digital Experience Platform gives you everything you need to build, host, and maintain amazing websites your way. Gain complete control over your creative vision without restriction or compromise' and is a popular CMS tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MODX for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux, Windows and Mac apps. The best MODX alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MODX are Ghost, Drupal, Joomla and EmDash CMS.

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  1. WordPress icon

    WordPress

     1693 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.

    146 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
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    webzooks
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    MODX is dead. You should use PHP-frameworks for complex projects or WordPress for typical websites and landing pages.

    philrj
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    Leading, actively-developed, and flexible content management system. Huge community. Perhaps one of the most flexible CMS / blogging platform out of the box. Almost ubiquitous across many industries for web content management. Excellent framework to build on for beginners, yet powerful enough for advanced developers.

    • WordPress is Freemium and Open SourceMODX is also Freemium and Open Source
    • WordPress is a Blog Publishing MODX is a CMS Tool
    • WordPress is CustomizableMODX is not according to our users
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    Ghost

     263 likes

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

    285 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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    Drupal

     496 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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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    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.

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    Joomla

     354 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.

    215 Joomla alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  8. EmDash CMS icon

    EmDash CMS

     14 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Typescript
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  9. ProcessWire icon

    ProcessWire

     166 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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  10. Directus icon

    Directus

     34 likes

    Directus, with over 20 million downloads, is the world's first Open Data Platform. It can transform any SQL database into an API and a no-code application instantly, providing equal data and digital file asset management access to all team members.

    223 Directus alternatives

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    • Online
    • DigitalOcean
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ubuntu
    • Heroku
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
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    WriteFreely

     48 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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    Squarespace

     85 likes

    Site-building platform offering drag-and-drop customization, ecommerce tools, free domain for a year, and diverse templates, along with marketing and analytics tools. Provides reliable hosting, security, and 24/7 support.

    389 Squarespace alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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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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    Plone

     66 likes

    Plone is an open source content management system based on the Zope application server, written in python. Its known to be powerful, reliable, secure and easy to use. Plone excels when compared to other content-management systems in standards conformance, access control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  15. django CMS icon

    django CMS

     62 likes

    django CMS is an Enterprise CMS built with Django and one of the most active open-source projects in the Django ecosystem. Since 2007 it powers tens of thousands of websites across the world, and benefits from a friendly developer community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

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