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WordPressSilverstripe CMS
Free

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

 Free

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

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Very large library of themes and plugins
  • Visual block editor with live preview
  • CMS and MVC application framework in one package
  • Permissive BSD licence
  • Needs a PHP and database server to self-host
  • Plugins and themes vary widely in quality and need updating
  • Needs developer work to build custom sites
  • Requires your own server to run
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

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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