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SerendipityWordPress
Free

Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.

 Free

Free and open source under the GPL; you pay only for your own hosting.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Long track record since 2002
  • Plugin and theme repository installable from the admin
  • Very large library of themes and plugins
  • Visual block editor with live preview
  • Smaller community than WordPress
  • Classic PHP blog design rather than a modern headless setup
  • Needs a PHP and database server to self-host
  • Plugins and themes vary widely in quality and need updating
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause License: GPL-2.0
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

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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