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Top 23 PHP CMS Projects
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filament
A powerful open-source UI framework for Laravel • Build and ship apps & admin panels fast with Livewire
In a life of everybody should be the moment, the time to separate from the parents. Laravel's Shroomok reached that stage in 12 months or so. Bottle-neck was the absence of nice admin dashboard focused on text-content edits. I mean, of course, there were solutions, but I didn't feel right about them until the King was found -- Filament!
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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 -
Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
I don't even track the clicks, at this point the shortener is just an Apache2 container with a long config file and some shell scripts for me adding new links: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/sometimes-dropbox-is-just-ftp-b...
Previously it was YOURLS but now it's the simpler setup, the whole reason for me adding it was that Grav (which is otherwise a lovely flat-file CMS) was really bad at handling query strings in Markdown: https://getgrav.org/
Not sure if it's been patched since, will probably look into it at some point. Might either migrate from the shortener to direct links at some point, or add an intermediate page: "You are about to go to: " with some buttons.
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PrestaShop
PrestaShop is the universal open-source software platform to build your e-commerce solution.
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Project mention: Deploying Joomla CMS: Two Tier Architecture on AWS With EC2 and RDS | dev.to | 2026-05-31
cd /var/www/html sudo curl -L -o joomla.zip https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/3.9.28/Joomla_3.9.28-Stable-Full_Package.zip
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Project mention: cms VS PagibleAI CMS - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/cms | 2025-10-10
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Personal management system
Your web application for managing personal data. personal.management.system.inbox@gmail.com
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twill
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.
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Piwigo
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!
Piwigo is the veteran of self-hosted photo management with over 23 years of active development (since 2002). It is a gallery and organization tool built for managing and sharing large photo collections. With 350+ plugins, batch operations, granular user permissions, and proven scalability to 500,000+ photos, Piwigo is the enterprise-grade option.
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Pimcore
Core Framework for the Open Core Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)
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Craft CMS is a flexible and developer-friendly platform that focuses on custom design and structured content. It’s best for agencies and designers building tailored websites, offering complete control over content modeling and front-end rendering.
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moonshine
Laravel Admin panel and more. Simple for beginners and powerful for experts. Using Blade, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS. (by moonshine-software)
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TYPO3
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
TYPO3 is professional, enterprise-level CMS with features suited for large, multilingual, and multisite projects. It’s open-source, highly customizable, and ideal for organizations that require structured content management and long-term stability.
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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 CMS projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | filament | 31,015 |
| 2 | WordPress | 21,172 |
| 3 | Grav | 15,508 |
| 4 | october | 11,141 |
| 5 | PrestaShop | 9,095 |
| 6 | Joomla! | 5,090 |
| 7 | cms | 4,817 |
| 8 | Personal management system | 4,024 |
| 9 | twill | 3,956 |
| 10 | Pico | 3,903 |
| 11 | Piwigo | 3,796 |
| 12 | Pimcore | 3,775 |
| 13 | CraftCMS | 3,577 |
| 14 | cms | 2,887 |
| 15 | Kirby | 1,508 |
| 16 | winter | 1,493 |
| 17 | Bludit | 1,430 |
| 18 | htmly | 1,339 |
| 19 | sulu | 1,333 |
| 20 | moonshine | 1,287 |
| 21 | TYPO3 | 1,190 |
| 22 | ProcessWire | 1,127 |
| 23 | Known | 1,117 |
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