PHP Blogging

Open-source PHP projects categorized as Blogging

Top 9 PHP Blogging Projects

  1. 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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  3. Vvveb CMS

    Powerful and easy to use cms to build websites, blogs or ecommerce stores.

    Project mention: Vvveb – open-source CMS drag-and-drop site builder | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-10
  4. ClassicPress

    The CMS for Creators. Stable. Lightweight. Instantly Familiar. Forked from WordPress.

    Project mention: WordPress 7.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-20

    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/

  5. URLify

    A fast PHP slug generator and transliteration library that converts non-ascii characters for use in URLs.

  6. 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.

  7. Luminosity

    A modern style blogging platform (by cmd05)

  8. smolblog

    A blog engine for the social web. This is the monorepo that contains the PHP code for the project.

  9. Blogs

    A platform for blogging. (by Umbe-Exe)

  10. Promptly

    A simple, no-nonsense, self-hosted blogging platform. (by connervieira)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Blogging projects in PHP? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
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

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