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Winter CMSWordPress
Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence, with paid support available.

 Free

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

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Built on Laravel, familiar to PHP developers
  • Plugin and theme marketplace
  • Very large library of themes and plugins
  • Visual block editor with live preview
  • Needs a PHP server and Composer to install
  • Aimed more at developers and agencies than casual site owners
  • 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: MIT 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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