Open Source CMS Made Simple Alternatives

Joomla is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP. The CMS is built entirely by volunteers from all over the world and has a strong community that provide educational resources, and extensions. 

WordPress powers roughly 30% of all web pages online. It's a free and open source CMS designed and developed for self-hosted publishing by Automattic, Inc. The software is written in PHP and utilize either MySQL or MariaDB as a database, and is compatible with most web hosts. Wordpress includes a plugin architecture and a templating system that can be used to extend and customize your website. These are commonly known as WordPress plugins and WordPress themes and make up a whole open source and commercial eco-system where anyone is free to create products for the platform. 

Wagtail is a free and open-source CMS built on-top of Django and Python. The CMS is built by developers and for developers and provides a configuration-less solution to content management. Wagtail plays nicely with your existing tech, especially if that stack utilze Python and the Django web framework. Wagtail can be installed as a package in existing Django application and extends the Django Admin to be more suited for content management.

Drupal is a free and open-source CMS written in PHP. Drupal is used for creating website for businesses, political parties and governments. The CMS currently powers 2% of all websites on the internet.

Pangea CMS is a powerful content management system designed for journalists. Pangea CMS provides a platform for quality and balanced journalism in 57 languages across 200 countries and territories around the world.

FeinCMS is a bare bones content management system written in Python on-top of the web framework Django. The CMS is built to know nothing about your content, and includes an admin interfaces that can handle content types. It lets you reorder page content blocks using a drag-drop interface, and you can add as many content blocks to a region (sidebar, header, etc) as you want. FeinCMS was built this way to allow for maximum flexibility, where developers, designers and content managers can create a unique site, tailored for their type of content and future patterns.

A hybrid content management system that includes classic CMS and Headless CMS features. With dotCMS content managers can create content that fuels the brand experience. The API-first approach provided by the headless part of dotCMS allows developers to build extremely fast front-ends with popular third-party front-end framework and deliver content optimally. The content management system allows content creators to build engaging and memorable content that can be reused across sites.

Kotti is a high-level, Pythonic web application framework. It includes an extensible Content Management System called the Kotti CMS, offering all the features you would expect from a modern CMS. Kotti is built on top of a number of best-of-breed software components, notably Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, and Twitter Bootstrap.

PyroCMS is a free and open-source Content Management System written in PHP on top the web development framework Laravel.

Craft CMS is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond. Craft is designed from the ground up to empoer the entire creative process. From the user-friendly interface to the completely customizable back end, everything you interact with is designed to just make sense. With Craft your content comes first. No more trying to make your content work within the confines of the CMS.

Plone CMS is a free and open source content management system written in Python. The CMS is built on top of the Zope application server, a free and open source web application server written in the object-oriented programming language Python. The significant strength of Plone is its flexibility, allowing users to manage the lifecycle of their workflow, from creation to publication and storage, with version control, content locking, and digital asset and document management. Plone has an active, thriving open source community that holds annual conferences, regional symposia, and many sprints all over the world. Which means that anyone if free to join and improve the codebase

MODX is a free, open source content management system and digital experience platform. The CMS gives you full control over your creative, editorial vision and the experience you deliver. MODX is written in the programming language PHP and supports both MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases. The CMS is openly developed and released under the GPL license, and allows contribution.