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Top 9 PHP Blogging Projects
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WordPress
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: I built a WordPress plugin that generates llms.txt from your sitemap | dev.to | 2026-04-21 -
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Project mention: Vvveb – open-source CMS drag-and-drop site builder | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-10
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I'm probably going to use classic press next time I need a wp like cms (assuming its security doesnt suck).
https://www.classicpress.net/
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URLify
A fast PHP slug generator and transliteration library that converts non-ascii characters for use in URLs.
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libarea
A platform for collective blogs and social media platform, forum, question and answer service (Q&A). A community based on the PHP HLEB micro-framework.
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smolblog
A blog engine for the social web. This is the monorepo that contains the PHP code for the project.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Blogging projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | WordPress | 21,192 |
| 2 | Vvveb CMS | 1,077 |
| 3 | ClassicPress | 847 |
| 4 | URLify | 673 |
| 5 | libarea | 126 |
| 6 | Luminosity | 28 |
| 7 | smolblog | 6 |
| 8 | Blogs | 2 |
| 9 | Promptly | 1 |