Category
Open-source startups in CMS and websites
Content management, blogging, docs and website builders — everything that puts words on the web. 14 open-source startups in this directory are filed under CMS and websites. 12 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 1 has been quiet for 31–120 days, 1 has not pushed in over 120 days. The category is chosen by Jev, TypeSafe’s classifier, reading only the repository’s own name, description and homepage — one category per project, so something that spans two appears under whichever the classifier judged closest.
12 of 14 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 14, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one. The “built for” column and the “alternative to” chips are Jev’s answers about the same repository description, published with the rest of them.
| Project | What it does | Built for | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| strapi/strapi | 🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first. | Developers | 73.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| TryGhost/Ghost | Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters. | Business teams | 55.4K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| halo-dev/halo | Halo 是一款强大易用的开源建站工具，从个人博客、知识库，到企业官网、在线商城，Halo 都能助您轻松实现，一站式满足您的多样化建站需求。 | Consumers | 39.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| directus/directus | The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more. | Developers | 37.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| forem/forem | For empowering community 🌱 | Consumers | 22.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| WordPress/WordPress | WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead. | Developers | 21.4K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| decaporg/decap-cms | A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators | Developers | 19.4K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| getgrav/grav | Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony | Developers | 15.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| tinacms/tinacms | TinaCMS is the leading open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing. Your content is stored in your own GitHub repo 🦙 ❤️ | Developersalt to Webflow | 13.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Automattic/wp-calypso | The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com | Developers | 12.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| typecho/typecho | A PHP Blogging Platform. Simple and Powerful. | Consumers | 12.4K | Slowed | Jul 17, 2026 |
| bastienwirtz/homer | A very simple static homepage for your server. | IT and operations | 11.6K | Still shipping | Sep 20, 2026 |
| octobercms/october | Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. | Developers | 11.1K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| getgridea/gridea | ✍️ A static blog writing client (一个静态博客写作客户端) | Consumers | 10.2K | Gone silent | Jul 26, 2023 |
Related collections
Sideways from here.
The 8 largest other categories in the directory, then the other ways to slice it. Every count is as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22.
Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you →