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A fork of WordPress 4.9 that keeps the classic editor and most plugins and themes working.
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| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClassicPress | Full replacement | 860 | GPL-2.0 | Open source | Yes | PHP | 2.7.3+dev | 2026-10-10 |
| October CMS | Partial | 11k | Other | Source available | Yes | PHP | v4.4.0 | 2026-10-10 |
| Drupal | Partial | 4.3k | None detected | Open source | Yes | PHP | 11.4.9 | 2026-10-10 |
| TYPO3 | Partial | 1.2k | GPL-2.0 | Open source | Yes | PHP | v14.3.8 | 2026-10-10 |
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Laravel-based CMS with its own plugin marketplace; the licence is a purchased EULA.
Verbatim mirror of the git.drupal.org repository for Drupal core. Please see the https://github.com/drupal/drupal#contributing. PRs are not accepted on GitHub.
Content-modelling CMS with fine-grained permissions and a smaller plugin catalogue.
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
PHP enterprise CMS with multi-site and multilingual support built in.
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