Topics / #cms

CMS projects on GitHub

Content management systems for authoring and publishing site content.

As of , the most-starred CMS projects on GitHub are hugo (90.1K stars), strapi (73.3K stars) and Ghost (55.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 41 CMS repositories with 856.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was emdash, with +25 stars in a day.

41Projects
856.1KStars in total
+177Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+25

emdash

emdash-cms/emdash · ★ 13.7K

EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare, meant as a modern, type-safe successor to WordPress with a sandboxed plugin system.

+21

directus

directus/directus · ★ 38.5K

Directus is an open-source backend platform that wraps your existing SQL database with instant REST and GraphQL APIs, a no-code admin app, authentication, and fine-grained permissions - turning any database into a headless CMS, admin panel, or custom app backend.

+18

payload

payloadcms/payload · ★ 45.3K

Payload is an open-source, fullstack TypeScript framework built on Next.js that gives you a full backend and admin panel instantly, usable as a headless CMS or as the backend for any app.

+14

hugo

gohugoio/hugo · ★ 90.1K

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that builds websites from content files and templates, marketed as the world's fastest framework for building websites.

The all-time top

41 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · gohugoio/hugo

    hugo

    Hugo is a static site generator written in Go that builds websites from content files and templates, marketed as the world's fastest framework for building websites.

    90.1K
  2. #2 · strapi/strapi

    strapi

    Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS: 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, it lets developers build content APIs fast while giving content creators a friendly editing interface.

    73.3K
  3. #3 · TryGhost/Ghost

    Ghost

    Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for running blogs, newsletters, memberships and paid subscriptions.

    55.6K
  1. 4

    jekyll

    51.7Kjekyll/jekyll · Ruby

    Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware static site generator written in Ruby. It takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and outputs a complete static website ready to be served by a web server.

  2. 5

    payload

    45.3Kpayloadcms/payload · TypeScript

    Payload is an open-source, fullstack TypeScript framework built on Next.js that gives you a full backend and admin panel instantly, usable as a headless CMS or as the backend for any app.

  3. 6

    halo

    39.9Khalo-dev/halo · Java

    Halo is a powerful, easy-to-use open-source website building tool: from personal blogs and knowledge bases to corporate sites and online stores, it aims to cover your site-building needs in one place.

  4. 7

    directus

    38.5Kdirectus/directus · TypeScript

    Directus is an open-source backend platform that wraps your existing SQL database with instant REST and GraphQL APIs, a no-code admin app, authentication, and fine-grained permissions - turning any database into a headless CMS, admin panel, or custom app backend.

  5. 8

    awesome-php

    32.8Kziadoz/awesome-php

    A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources, frameworks and tools, organized by category.

  6. 9

    filament

    32.3Kfilamentphp/filament · PHP

    Filament is an open-source UI framework for Laravel that lets you build apps and admin panels quickly, using a set of reusable, state-aware UI building blocks on top of Livewire.

  7. 10

    editor.js

    32Kcodex-team/editor.js · TypeScript

    A free, open-source, block-style text editor for the web: writers compose content from blocks like text, images, lists and quotes, and it saves the result as clean JSON instead of heavy HTML markup.

  8. 11

    WordPress

    21.5KWordPress/WordPress · PHP

    This is the official Git mirror of WordPress, the open-source content management system and blogging platform used to build and run websites.

  9. 12

    wagtail

    20.6Kwagtail/wagtail · Python

    Wagtail is an open source content management system (CMS) built on Django, focused on flexibility, user experience, and giving designers and developers precise control.

  10. 13

    decap-cms

    19.4Kdecaporg/decap-cms · JavaScript

    A Git-based CMS for static site generators: a single-page app you pull into the /admin part of your site, giving editors a clean UI for content stored in your Git repository.

  11. 14

    BookStack

    19.1KBookStackApp/BookStack · PHP

    It's a free, open-source platform for storing and organising information and documentation — a self-hosted wiki-style web app written in PHP, around since 2015 with roughly 19,000 GitHub stars.

  12. 15

    zola

    17.5Kgetzola/zola · Rust

    Zola is a fast static site generator: it turns your Markdown content into a complete static website, shipped as one self-contained binary with everything built in.

  13. 16

    flarum

    16.4Kflarum/flarum · PHP

    Flarum is a discussion/forum platform you run on your own website to build an online community.

  14. 17

    grav

    15.7Kgetgrav/grav · PHP

    Grav is a fast, flat-file CMS: a web platform for building sites where content lives in Markdown files rather than a database. Zero installation — you extract the ZIP archive and you are already up and running.

  15. 18

    awesome-cloudflare

    15.5Kzhuima/awesome-cloudflare

    A curated, awesome-style list of Cloudflare tools, open-source projects, guides, blogs and other resources — collected so indie developers can find ready-made, low-cost tools without trawling GitHub themselves.

  16. 19

    parsedown

    15Kerusev/parsedown · PHP

    Parsedown is a Markdown parser library for PHP: you feed it Markdown text and it converts it into HTML.

  17. 20

    keystone-classic

    14.5Kkeystonejs/keystone-classic · JavaScript

    Keystone (classic) is a Node.js content management system and web app framework built on Express and Mongoose ODM, with an auto-generated Admin UI included.

  18. 21

    QloApps

    14.4KQloapps/QloApps · PHP

    QloApps is a free, open-source hotel management and reservation system: a booking engine plus a Property Management System (PMS) that powers your own hotel booking website.

  19. 22

    tinacms

    13.8Ktinacms/tinacms · TypeScript

    TinaCMS is an open-source headless CMS that lets you edit Markdown, MDX, JSON, and YAML content through a visual interface while storing everything as files in your own GitHub repo.

  20. 23

    emdash

    13.7Kemdash-cms/emdash · TypeScript

    EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare, meant as a modern, type-safe successor to WordPress with a sandboxed plugin system.

  21. 24

    puck

    13.5Kpuckeditor/puck · TypeScript

    Puck is a modular, open-source visual editor for React.js that lets you build custom drag-and-drop editing experiences using your own React components.

  22. 25

    typecho

    12.4Ktypecho/typecho · PHP

    Typecho is a self-hosted blogging platform written in PHP — blog software the project bills as simple and powerful.

  23. 26

    illa-builder

    12.3Killacloud/illa-builder · TypeScript

    ILLA Builder is an open source low-code platform for building internal tools like dashboards, CRUD apps, admin panels, CRMs, and CMSs. It is positioned as an open source alternative to Retool.

  24. 27

    magento2

    12.2Kmagento/magento2 · PHP

    Magento Open Source is a PHP eCommerce platform that provides the core capabilities needed to build an online store from the ground up.

  25. 28

    NotionNext

    11.9Knotionnext-org/NotionNext · JavaScript

    NotionNext is an open-source site system built on Next.js and the Notion API: you keep managing posts, categories, tags and menus in Notion, and it publishes that workspace as a fast, searchable, standalone website.

  26. 29

    gutenberg

    11.8KWordPress/gutenberg · TypeScript

    Gutenberg is the block editor project for WordPress, replacing the old post editor with a modular system where every piece of content (paragraph, image, gallery, heading) is an editable block.

  27. 30

    awesome-django

    11.3Kwsvincent/awesome-django · Python

    A curated list of awesome third-party packages, tools, and resources for the Django web framework, covering everything from admin themes to deployment services.

  28. 31

    october

    11.1Koctobercms/october · PHP

    October CMS is a self-hosted content management system and web platform built on the Laravel PHP framework, aimed at making website development simple instead of convoluted.

  29. 32

    frappe

    10.9Kfrappe/frappe · Python

    Frappe is a full-stack, low-code web framework for building real-world business applications, using Python and MariaDB on the server side and a tightly integrated JavaScript client library on the front end.

  30. 33

    django-cms

    10.7Kdjango-cms/django-cms · Python

    django CMS is a lean, open-source enterprise content management system built on Django for creating and running content-heavy websites with structured publishing workflows.

  31. 34

    gridea

    10.2Kgetgridea/gridea · TypeScript

    Gridea is a static blog writing client: a desktop app where you write posts in Markdown and publish them as a static blog — pitched for recording your life, mood, knowledge, notes and ideas.

  32. 35

    Instatic

    9KCoreBunch/Instatic · TypeScript

    An open-source, self-hosted visual CMS positioned against Webflow, Framer and WordPress: editor, content engine, media, auth, forms, plugins and publisher all in one Bun server, publishing clean static pages.

  33. 36

    GEOFlow

    3.8Kyaojingang/GEOFlow · PHP

    GEOFlow is an open-source GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) content engineering platform for enterprise websites. It links trusted knowledge, AI content production, a quality gate, manual review, multi-site distribution and analytics into one admin system.

  34. 37

    wordpress-develop

    3.5KWordPress/wordpress-develop · PHP

    The official WordPress development repository: the source code of WordPress core, kept as a Git mirror of WordPress's subversion repository. It exists for working on WordPress itself, not for installing a blog.

  35. 38

    Smartstore

    1.7Ksmartstore/Smartstore · C#

    Smartstore is a modular, open-source all-in-one eCommerce platform built on ASP.NET Core 10, offering a full storefront plus backend for managing a multi-language, multi-store, multi-currency online shop.

  36. 39

    gophenberg

    574gopherium/gophenberg · Go

    Gophenberg is a plugin-first CMS with a Go backend exposing a JSON API, a React SPA admin built on the Gutenberg block editor, and optional Astro themes for the public site.

  37. 40

    Kooboo

    344Kooboo/Kooboo · JavaScript

    An all-in-one 'AI-native Web OS' for building, running, and owning websites, online stores, and business applications — AI site creation, visual editing, CMS, databases, ecommerce, email, analytics, and hosting in one integrated system.

  38. 41

    Neofollower-SMM-Reseller-API-for-Woocommerce

    109Neofollower/Neofollower-SMM-Reseller-API-for-Woocommerce · PHP

    The official NeoFollower WordPress plugin: it connects WooCommerce products to the NeoFollower SMM panel reseller API and automatically fulfills paid orders, so you sell social media services through a normal WordPress storefront instead of a separate SMM panel UI.

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