ExpressionEngine Alternatives

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.

CMS Made Simple is a free and open-source content management system that offers an easy to use interface for end users, while maintaining a powerful backend for developers. CMS Made Simple is written in PHP and got an extensive API and custom modules. The CMS also utilize the Smarty templating engine that can be used to customize sites with HTML, CSS and PHP.

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.

TYPO3 is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP. The CMS is released under the GNU General Public License which makes it free to use for commerical and non-commercial projects alike. TYPO3 can run in most hosting environements and provides an easy way for people to write, manage and publish content online.

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

Ghost is a free and open-source headless CMS and blogging platform developed by Ghost Foundation. With Ghost you can manage content in style, the user experience provided by the software is intuitive and encourages writing. Ghost is written in JavaScript for the Node.js platform and is released under the MIT license.

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. 

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.

October is a free, open-source and self-hosted content management system written in PHP on top of the framework Laravel. The CMS features a universal extendable dashboard, inspector, reusable CMS components and a plugin system that can be used to extend functinality of your website. The plugin store contains thousands of community-made plugins that can either be purchased or installed for free. As a data store, October CMS supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

Netlify CMS is a static site generator that is based on client-side JavaScript with a reusable APIs and prebuilt Markup. Simply pull in Netlify CMS to /admin of you site and you have an SPA (Single Page Application) admin panel that can edit content stored in a Git repository. Serving applications like this, the JAMstack way, improves performance, lowers cost of scaling and provides for a better development experience.

Subrion is a PHP/MySQL based CMS & framework that allows you to build websites for any purpose. Yes, from blog to corporate mega portal.

Squidex is 100% open source headless CMS, built by passionated developers. With Squidex both individuals and organizations can handle content for the new web with ease. Squidex modular platform allows users to create content APIs that can be consumed by any frontend framework or technology in a matter of minutes. The framework itself can also be extended and tweaked to suite individual use-cases. Squidex is provided as a fully open source software released and free of charge, for the self-hosted community edition. For organizations that want to get up and running fast, commercially hosted solutions are provided.