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Content-management-system projects on GitHub
Systems for authoring and managing website content.
As of , the most-starred Content-management-system projects on GitHub are hugo (90.1K stars), strapi (73.3K stars) and Ghost (55.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 18 Content-management-system repositories with 471.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was emdash, with +25 stars in a day.
Hot right now
Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
emdash
emdash-cms/emdash · ★ 13.7KEmDash 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.
+18payload
payloadcms/payload · ★ 45.3KPayload 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.
hugo
gohugoio/hugo · ★ 90.1KHugo 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.
+14Ghost
TryGhost/Ghost · ★ 55.6KGhost is an open-source publishing platform for running blogs, newsletters, memberships and paid subscriptions.
The all-time top
18 projects · by stars
- 90.1K
#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.
- 73.3K
#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.
- 55.6K
#3 · TryGhost/GhostGhost
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for running blogs, newsletters, memberships and paid subscriptions.
- 4

payload
45.3Kpayloadcms/payload · TypeScriptPayload 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.
- 5
halo
39.9Khalo-dev/halo · JavaHalo 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.
- 6

grapesjs
26.3KGrapesJS/grapesjs · TypeScriptGrapesJS is a free and open source Web Builder Framework for building HTML templates without coding — templates you can deliver in sites, newsletters or mobile apps.
- 7

WordPress
21.5KWordPress/WordPress · PHPThis is the official Git mirror of WordPress, the open-source content management system and blogging platform used to build and run websites.
- 8
decap-cms
19.4Kdecaporg/decap-cms · JavaScriptA 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.
- 9
zola
17.5Kgetzola/zola · RustZola 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.
- 10
grav
15.7Kgetgrav/grav · PHPGrav 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.
- 11
tinacms
13.8Ktinacms/tinacms · TypeScriptTinaCMS 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.
- 12
emdash
13.7Kemdash-cms/emdash · TypeScriptEmDash 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.
- 13

pelican
13.4Kgetpelican/pelican · PythonPelican is a static site generator written in Python that turns text files in Markdown, reStructuredText, or HTML into complete web sites.
- 14

gutenberg
11.8KWordPress/gutenberg · TypeScriptGutenberg 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.
- 15

october
11.1Koctobercms/october · PHPOctober 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.
- 16

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.
- 17

gophenberg
574gopherium/gophenberg · GoGophenberg 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.
- 18

Kooboo
344Kooboo/Kooboo · JavaScriptAn 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.
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