WordPress: open source alternative to Squarespace and Wix

ClassicPress Full replacement

The CMS for Creators. Stable. Lightweight. Instantly Familiar. Forked from WordPress.

A fork of WordPress 4.9 that keeps the classic editor and most plugins and themes working.

Language: PHP
Licence: GPL-2.0
Stars: 860
Latest: 2.7.3+dev
Last push: 2026-10-10

October CMS Partial

Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

Laravel-based CMS with its own plugin marketplace; the licence is a purchased EULA.

Language: PHP
Licence: Other
Stars: 11k
Latest: v4.4.0
Last push: 2026-10-10

Drupal Partial

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.

Language: PHP
Licence: None detected
Stars: 4.3k
Latest: 11.4.9
Last push: 2026-10-10

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TYPO3 Partial

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.

Language: PHP
Licence: GPL-2.0
Stars: 1.2k
Latest: v14.3.8
Last push: 2026-10-10

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