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Dotclear vs Chyrp Lite: catalog facts
Dotclear	Chyrp Lite
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Long history, in development since 2002 Self-hosted, so you keep control of the blog	Small and easy to run on shared hosting Accessible markup with ARIA labelling
Community and documentation are largely French-speaking Needs a PHP web server to run	Smaller plugin and theme selection than large CMSs Requires your own PHP hosting
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is 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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