https://github.com/postlight/awesome-cms
📚 A collection of open and closed source Content Management Systems (CMS) for your perusal.
https://github.com/postlight/awesome-cms
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📚 A collection of open and closed source Content Management Systems (CMS) for your perusal.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/postlight/awesome-cms
- Owner: postlight
- License: cc0-1.0
- Created: 2016-09-09T02:41:50.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-23T00:29:06.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-03T12:47:50.714Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: awesome-list, cms, labs, toml
- Homepage: https://postlight.com/labs/awesome-cms
- Size: 703 KB
- Stars: 3,002
- Watchers: 111
- Forks: 292
- Open Issues: 12
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Awesome CMS [![Awesome][awesome-image]][awesome-repo]
[Postlight](https://postlight.com)'s Awesome CMS is a collection of **149** open and closed source Content Management
Systems (CMS) for your perusal. Check out [the blog post][] on the creation of
Awesome CMS.
_See [CONTRIBUTING.md](/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on generation and contribution._
## Contents
- [.NET](#net)
- [Go](#go)
- [Java](#java)
- [JavaScript](#javascript)
- [PHP](#php)
- [Python](#python)
- [Ruby](#ruby)
- [Rust](#rust)
- [Closed Source](#closed-source)
## .NET
Name
Description
Awesome Cms Core is an Open Source Content Management System built using .Net Core
A web CMS that focus on UX and adaptability.
DNN Platform is our free, open source web CMS and the foundation of every professional DNN solution. Over 750,000 organizations worldwide have built websites powered by the DNN Platform.
Kaliko CMS is a free, powerful and flexible CMS framework for ASP.NET MVC and WebForms.
Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
Piranha is the fun, fast and lightweight .NET framework for developing cms-based web applications with an extra bite. It's built on ASP.NET MVC and Web Pages and is fully compatible with both Visual Studio and WebMatrix.
Free, open source, and cross-platform developer-friendly CMS, based on ASP.NET Core and ExtCore frameworks.
Headless CMS and content management hub built on top of ASP.NET Core and Event Sourcing
The simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS used by more than 360,000 websites.
## Go
Name
Description
Developer-first CMS built with Go and React. Version-controlled templates, complete JSON API, built-in HTTPS and HTTP/2, fast and easy to use.
Headless CMS with automatic JSON API. Featuring auto HTTPS, HTTP/2 Server Push, and flexible server framework written in Go.
## Java
Name
Description
Crafter CMS is an open source hybrid headless CMS based on Git that brings content authors, devolopers and devops together to deliver stunning personalized, multi-channel experiences faster and easier than ever before.
dotCMS is a open source content management system and headless CMS for managing and delivering content driven web apps and sites.
Elepy is a Headless Content Management Framework for Java & Kotlin. It is developer-first and focuses on extendability.
Gentics Mesh is an open source API-first CMS, complete with multi‑language support, versioning and roles & permissions.
Model Content and Create Site using Javascript with Native Cache and Search. Shiohara CMS uses AngularJS and Spring Boot, develop javascript models on the server through Nashorn
## JavaScript
Name
Description
ApostropheCMS is a CMS for Node.js. It supports in-context editing, schema-driven content types, flexible widgets, localization and a great deal more.
CMS.js is fully client-side, Javascript site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol' HTML, CSS and Javascript to generate your website. CMS.js is like a file-based CMS. It takes your content, renders Markdown and delivers a complete website in Single-Page App fashion...without the aid of server-side scripting.
Javascript Content Management System running on Node.js.
Bespoke content management. With Contember you will easily manage your content and data. Build and run GraphQL API and user-centric administration without any hassle.
Directus is a headless CMS open-source suite of software that wraps custom SQL databases with a dynamic API and intuitive Admin App. It allows both administrators and non-technical users to view and manage the content/data stored in pure SQL databases. It can be used as a headless CMS for managing project content, a database client for modeling and viewing raw data REST API or GraphQL, or as customizable WebApp.
Helps you create APIs with very little code. It's a middleware for making RESTFUL apis from JSON schema, with a Django-like Admin interface that lets you edit your data and modify your schemas.. It's easy to integrate into other applications and your schemas and permissions are just defined in JSON files.
Factor is an extension-driven platform for VueJS and Node.
Gatsby is a blazing fast modern site generator for React.
Ghost is an open source publishing platform which is beautifully designed, easy to use, and free for everyone.
A Jekyll plugin that provides users with a traditional CMS-style graphical interface to author content and administer Jekyll sites.
The open source framework for developing database-driven websites, applications and APIs in Node.js. Built on Express and MongoDB.
A CMS for Static Site Generators.
A self-hosted, headless CMS with code-first configuration, customizable admin panel, and a rich editing experience. Many advanced features - flexible content, authentication, localization, GraphQL, hooks, and TypeScript support.
Business class content management for Node.js (plugins, server cluster management, data-driven pages).
Prime is a standalone, self-hosted, headless CMS with a GraphQL interface powered by TypeScript.
Prose is a content editor for GitHub designed for managing websites.
Reaction is a modern reactive, real-time event driven ecommerce platform.
New generation CMS on top of React, Redux and GraphQL.
Sanity is a real-time content infrastructure. The editor is built in
JavaScript and React.js and connects to a scalable, hosted backend featuring a Graph Oriented Query Language (GROQ), asset pipelines and fast edge caches
The most advanced open-source Content Management Framework to build powerful API with no effort.
Tina is a site editing toolkit for modern React-based sites (Gatsby and Next.js)
Extensible Node.js MVC framework.
Webhook lets you build a custom CMS with matching HTML templates in about a minute. Webhook is built with Node JS, Grunt, Firebase and Swig.
A self-hosted, open-source, headless CMS that runs on top of serverless infrastructure. Scaleable, cost-effective, and innovative solution for managing all of your content needs. It is quick and easy to deploy, and because of the serverless infrastructure, you will only pay for what you use.
## PHP
Name
Description
A lightweight blog CMS for PHP.
A modular multilingual CMS built with Laravel 5.
Azuriom is a modern, reliable, fast and secure game CMS built with Laravel 8.
Bolt is an extensible Symfony-based CMS. It has a built-in REST & GraphQL API, multilingual and powerful content querying in Twig.
A PHP CMS powered by Laravel 5 and Sentry
A simple CMS to start projects in Laravel 5.3 containing some modules. Blog, Pages, Products, Mailbox, Image Gallery and Users.
Add content management functionality to any site.
Contao is a web-based Open Source CMS, which generates accessible websites. It supports multiple languages and can easily be learned and extended.
Open Source Healess CMS powered by Drupal. Contenta CMS is for highly structured content. Contenta CMS uses leverages the data modelling tools from Drupal and offers a queriable API and a friendly admin interface.
Craft CMS is a focused content management system for developers, designers, and web professionals that blends flexibility, power, and ease of use for clients.
A CakePHP powered Content Management System.
Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for data storage.
Flextype is an open-source self-hosted Data-First Headless CMS & API. Building this content management system, we focused on simplicity - even novice webmaster adapt his template and writes his own plugin. To achieve this, we implemented a simple but powerful API's.
Fork is an open source CMS using Symfony Components.
A CodeIgniter Content Management System.
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS.
Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS.
Kirby is a file-based CMS. Easy to setup. Easy to use. Flexible as hell.
An advanced yet user-friendly content management system, based on the full stack Symfony2 framework combined with a whole host of community bundles. It provides a full featured, multi-language CMS system with an innovative page and form assembling process, versioning, workflow, translation and media managers and much more.
CMS Built with Laravel 5.2 and Bootstrap 3.
Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP.
MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia.
Microweber is a new generation content management system that allows you to create a website using drag and drop. You can easily manipulate the content and the layout of your pages. No coding skills are required.
MODX Revolution is the web content management platform for those that truly care about no-compromise design and exceptional user experience. It gives you complete control over your site and content, with the flexibility and scalability to adapt to your changing needs.
October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again.
Pagekit is a modular and lightweight CMS built with Symfony components and Vue.js.
Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.
Content & Product Management Framework (CMS/PIM/E-Commerce).
CMS and framework for building sites of all shapes and sizes. Developer and client friendly. Open Source
PyroCMS is athe modular DDD-adheres PHP CMS/CMF, built on top of the Laravel's MVC implementation. It has artisan based code generators, which would made it funny to create the Domain including models or just a new theme and then develop that created code. It has the highest learning curve, from all described here products!
Easy to handle for users, flexible for developers. Feels quite reasonable. (Hint: will open up for English users gradually!)
Ultra lightweight CMS (Content Management System) for SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Roadiz is a modern CMS based on a node system which can handle many types of services.
Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog engine which gives the user an easy way to maintain a blog.
SilverStripe is the intuitive content management system and flexible framework loved by editors and developers alike. Equip your web teams to achieve outstanding results.
Sulu is a content management platform based on Symfony made for businesses. It’s a flexible CMS to create and manage enterprise multi-sites and a reliable development environment for high-performance apps
A flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. Textpattern is both free and open source.
Thelia is an open source tool for creating e-business websites and managing online content. This software is published under LGPL and uses a large number of components from the Symfony project.
Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.
A modular multilingual CMS built with Laravel 5.
With more than 500,000 installations TYPO3 CMS is the most widely used Enterprise Content Management System, providing the basis for websites, intranets and web & mobile applications worldwide.
