Blogging Platforms / Free Software and web applications




This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers. ---from github/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted


  • Anchor CMS - Free, lightweight, faster-than-a-bullet, simple blogging system, made for art–directed posts. (Source CodeGPL-3.0 PHP
  • Antville - Free, open source project aimed at the development of a high performance, feature rich weblog hosting software. (Source CodeApache-2.0 Javascript
  • Blogotext - Free blog-engine written in PHP and using SQLite. This offers you both an unmatched simplicity during installation and great performances. (Source CodeMIT PHP
  • Bludit  - Simple application to build a site or blog in seconds. Bludit uses flat-files (text files in JSON format) to store posts and pages. (DemoSource CodeMIT PHP
  • Cadmus - Cadmus is an extremely lightweight, flat-file blogging platform powered by Markdown. MIT PHP
  • Chyrp Lite - Extra-awesome, extra-lightweight blog engine. (Source CodeBSD-3-Clause PHP
  • Dante Stories - A self hosted Medium platform built with Ruby on Rails. (Source CodeMIT Ruby
  • Dotclear - Take control over your blog. (Source CodeGPL-2.0 PHP
  • Formtools - Powerful, flexible, free and open source PHP/MySQL script to manage your forms and data. (Source CodeGPL-2.0 PHP
  • Ghost - Just a blogging platform. (Source CodeMIT Nodejs
  • Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js. (Source CodeMIT Nodejs
  • Hotglue - Freehand CMS which allows to construct websites directly in a web-browser. It uses flat files for storage and provides an intuitive GUI. (DemoSource CodeGPL-3.0 PHP
  • htmly - Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog). (DemoSource CodeGPL-2.0 PHP
  • Known - Single website for all your content. (Source CodeApache-2.0 PHP
  • Noddity - It's a blog, it's a wiki, it's a fast CMS. (Source CodeWTFPL Nodejs
  • Plume - Federated blogging engine, based on ActivityPub. (DemoSource CodeAGPL-3.0 Ruby
  • PluXml - XML-based blog/CMS platform. (Source CodeGPL-1.0 PHP
  • Postleaf - Open source blogging platform with inline editing, handlebar templates, and a beautiful user interface. (Source CodeMIT Nodejs
  • Solo - Blogging system written in Java, feel free to create your or your team own blog. (DemoSource CodeApache-2.0 Java
  • WordPress - Create a beautiful website or blog. (Source CodeGPL-2.0 PHP