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CouchCMS vs Textpattern: catalog facts
CouchCMS	Textpattern
Free Free and open source; paid support is available.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Retrofits into existing static HTML sites No PHP knowledge required	Tag-based templates with clean HTML output Lean core extendable with plugins
Development pace is slow Less suited to large editorial teams or headless setups	Requires PHP and MySQL hosting Smaller plugin and theme ecosystem than larger CMSes
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: CPAL-1.0	License: GPL-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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