Top 23 PHP CMS Projects

• WordPress

  919 18,788 9.9 PHP

  WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.

  

Project mention: Building a High-Performance Website with Next.js and WordPress | dev.to | 2024-03-19

Creating a high-performance website is essential in today’s digital age. Speed, efficiency, and a seamless user experience are the cornerstones of successful web development. This article explores how combining Next.js with WordPress can achieve these goals, providing a robust solution for developers looking to elevate their web projects.

• Grav

  84 14,290 8.5 PHP

  Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

  

Project mention: Ask HN: What products other than Obsidian share the file over app philosophy? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03

There are flat-file CMSes (content management systems) like Grav: https://getgrav.org/

I guess, in some vague/broad sense, config-as-code systems also implement something similar? Maybe even OpenAPI schemas could count to some degree...?

In the old days, the "semantic web" movement was an attempt to make more webpages both human- and machine-readable indefinitely by tagging them with proper schema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework. Even Google was on board for a while, but I guess it never saw much uptake. As far as I can tell it's basically dead now, both because of non-semantic HTML (everything as a React div), general laziness, and LLMs being able to parse things loosely.

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Side thoughts...

Philosophically, I don't know that capturing raw data alone as files is really sufficient to capture the nuances of any particular experience, or the overall zeitgeist of an era. You can archive Geocities pages, but that doesn't really capture the novelty and indie-ness of that era. Similarly, you can save TikTok videos, but absent the cultural environment that created them (and a faithful recreation of the recommendation algorithm), they wouldn't really show future archaeologists how teenagers today lived.

I worked for a natural history museum for a while, and while we were there, one of the interesting questions (well, to me anyway) was whether our web content was in and of itself worth preserving as a cultural artifact -- both so that future generations can see what exhibits were interesting/apropos for the cultures of our times, but also so they could see how our generation found out about those exhibitions to begin with (who knows what the Web will morph into 50 years later). It wasn't enough to simply save the HTML of our web pages, both because they tie into various other APIs and databases (like zoological collections) and because some were interactive experiences, like games designed to be played with a mouse (before phones were popular), or phone chatbots with some of our specimens. To really capture the experience authentically would've required emulating not just our tech stacks and devices, among other things.

Like for the earlier Geocities example, sure you could just save the old HTML and render it with a modern browser, but that's not the same as something like https://oldweb.today/?browser=ns3-mac#http://geocities.com/ , which emulates the whole OS and browser too. And that still isn't the same as having to sit in front of a tiny CRT and wait minutes for everything to download over a 14.4k modem, only to be interrupted when mom had to make a call.

I guess that's a longwinded of critiquing "file over app": It only makes sense for things that are originally files/documents to begin with. Much of our lives now are not flat docs but "experiences" that take much more thought and effort to archive. If the goal is truly to preserve that posterity, it's not enough to just archive their raw data, but to develop ways to record and later emulate entire experiences, both technological and cultural. It ain't easy!

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• filament

  66 14,232 10.0 PHP

  A collection of beautiful full-stack components for Laravel. The perfect starting point for your next app. Using Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS. (by filamentphp)

  

Project mention: The power of FilamentPHP - EN | dev.to | 2024-03-25

FilamentPHP is a full-stack web development tool, also called TALLKit, as it brings together the 4 knights of TALLStack (Tailwind, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire).

• october

  20 10,967 7.8 PHP

  Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

  

Project mention: Step-by-step guide: Launching a website with October CMS on Linode using PHP and Laravel | dev.to | 2023-08-23

git clone https://github.com/octobercms/october.git your-website

• PrestaShop

  9 7,812 10.0 PHP

  PrestaShop is the universal open-source software platform to build your e-commerce solution.

  

Project mention: 📜 RepoList - A tool to generate wordlists based on GitHub repositories | dev.to | 2023-11-24

I know for a fact that the website is using an open source e-commerce platform called PrestaShop for its backend. So I thought of creating a wordlist based on the files and directories of PrestaShop.

• Joomla!

  28 4,649 9.9 PHP

  Home of the Joomla! Content Management System

  

Project mention: Joomla 5 Upgrade on new 4.4 website fails code 0 "libraries/src/Event/AbstractEvent.php on line 225" | /r/joomla | 2023-10-20

• Bolt

  1 4,152 3.1 PHP

  Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL. (by bolt)

  

Project mention: Bolt VS core - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/bolt/bolt | 2024-04-13

• SaaSHub

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• Pico

  15 3,791 0.0 PHP

  Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS. (by picocms)

Project mention: EZ Question: Image Files in Obsidian Vault | /r/ObsidianMD | 2023-08-08

I'm cooking up a really cheap publishing solution using Pico CMS ("stupidly simple") and rsync or something from my Obsidian Vault to my PHP server.

• twill

  10 3,558 9.2 PHP

  Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible. Chat with us on Discord at https://discord.gg/cnWk7EFv8R.

  

Project mention: Pocketbase alternative made with php | /r/selfhosted | 2023-05-21

Since you're asking for PHP, it sounds like you want a framework to build your site with, and to manage content. There's Twill based on Laravel, or Ghost and Wordpress if you want tools in that space.

• cms

  33 3,404 9.9 PHP

  The core Laravel CMS Composer package

  

Project mention: Statamic – modern, clean, and highly adaptable CMS built on Laravel | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-12

• Pimcore

  3 3,193 9.8 PHP

  Core Framework for the Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)

  

Project mention: Need advice on image management tool | /r/foss | 2023-06-23

In this case, Pimcore appears to be free software, as it is offered under the GPLv3. https://github.com/pimcore/pimcore

• CraftCMS

  45 3,162 10.0 PHP

  Build bespoke content experiences with Craft. (by craftcms)

  

Project mention: Different flavors of content management | dev.to | 2023-08-28

The most typical approach is having a CMS admin panel sit somewhere on the server; everyone with an account uses this. This is a very convenient approach, especially when working with a team. This way, many people can work on different articles simultaneously without worrying about potential conflicts or overwriting stuff. The only con is related to security - everyone can try to get inside, and if you forget to update our CMS or some user have a weak password, it can be someone outside of our team. WordPress, Drupal, CraftCMS, or Ghost are perfect examples of such CMSs.

• Piwigo

  53 3,031 9.2 PHP

  Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!

  

Project mention: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-27

This is not for everyone, but I host my family photos myself, most recently with this: https://piwigo.org/. I have been doing this since 2007 (started on a different software, called "gallery". Was able to migrate from gallery2 to gallery3 and now piwigo), and so far no major issues. Advantage: I can easily share photos with family, no need for iCloud, Facebook, or indeed any service- they just need a web browser on their desktop computer or phone.

• cms

  1 2,791 5.2 PHP

  Multilingual PHP CMS built with Laravel and bootstrap (by LavaLite)

  

• winter

  17 1,289 8.8 PHP

  Free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

  

• Bludit

  20 1,231 5.9 PHP

  Simple, Fast, Secure, Flat-File CMS

  

Project mention: Bludit CMS v3.15.0 Released | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-21

• Kirby

  56 1,199 9.9 PHP

  Kirby's core application folder

  

Project mention: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-21

Not sure if this is what you’re after but give https://getkirby.com/ a try

• sulu

  5 1,117 9.2 PHP

  Core framework that implements the functionality of the Sulu content management system

  

• Known

  2 1,020 8.0 PHP

  A social publishing platform.

  

• TYPO3

  7 1,012 9.9 PHP

  The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS

  

Project mention: Classic Themes with Block Patterns in WordPress | dev.to | 2023-05-23

I doubt that WordPress is in danger. Its multiverse / flexibility and ease of use compared to real content management systems like Typo3, NEOS or Drupal, and the ability to just install it and control your content on your own webserver, try that with Wix, WebFlow, SquareSpace, Shopify and all those "serverless" software as a service servers. Hopefully, the core team will either get their block editor right some day (WordPress 7.0?) or make it completely optional. That would still be better than a fork, but I'd wished they had improved security, performance and internationalization instead of releasing the new editing features in an unstable beta state.

• htmly

  5 993 9.7 PHP

  Simple and fast databaseless PHP blogging platform, and Flat-File CMS

Project mention: HTMLy, simple and fast databaseless PHP blogging platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-28

• craftable

  1 964 3.9 PHP

  Admin panel builder / CRUD generator for Laravel.

  

• Backdrop CMS

  17 956 9.4 PHP

  Backdrop is a full-featured content management system that allows non-technical users to manage a wide variety of content. It can be used to create all kinds of websites including blogs, image galleries, social networks, intranets, and more.

  

Project mention: Cold-Blooded Software | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-28

• SaaSHub

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