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1. Uguu

   1 12 936 6.7 PHP

   Uguu is a simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading.

   

2. CodeRabbit

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3. WonderCMS

   2 3 684 7.1 PHP

   Fast and small flat file CMS (5 files). Built with PHP, JSON database.

   

4. Chyrp Lite

   3 6 430 9.7 PHP

   An ultra-lightweight blogging engine, written in PHP.

   

   Project mention: WordPress Alternatives | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-10

   For personal blog, I have found the following alternatives:

   - Chyrp Lite: lightweight blogging engine, written in PHP. https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite

   - Typecho: a PHP-based blog software. https://github.com/typecho/typecho

   and file-based static content generator:

   - Quartz: Publish an Obsidian vault as a static site. https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz

   - Logseq: Publish a Logseq graph as a static site. https://github.com/logseq/publish-spa

   also Jekyll templates:

   - https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-...

5. Blog

   4 3 302 2.6 PHP

   Lightweight self-hosted facebook-styled PHP blog. (by m1k1o)

   

6. Wolff

   5 0 217 0.0 PHP

   🐺 Lightweight and easy to use framework for building web apps. (by Usbac)

   

7. Pepperminty Wiki

   6 9 199 6.5 PHP

   A wiki in a box

   

8. picodav

   7 2 101 4.7 PHP

   Single-file WebDAV server, just drop it in a directory!

   

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. db

    8 1 80 3.7 PHP

    Fast and Lightweight PHP 8.1+ DataMapper and Table Gateway with automatic data caching, smart entities, migrations and many more (by compositephp)

    

11. sharp-pipes

    9 2 29 1.8 PHP

    PHP pipes in 156 bytes

    

12. apantos

    10 3 16 5.4 PHP

    Apantos is a fast and simple framework based on php with security methods and dedicated orm. Modularly

    

13. debrandify

    11 1 11 4.3 PHP

    Debrandify is a simple WordPress plugin that lets you hide WordPress branding and replace it with yours.

    

14. LiteConfig

    12 0 6 6.5 PHP

    A lightweight PHP static class with zero dependencies.

    

15. Promptly

    13 0 1 4.2 PHP

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

    

16. PurePHPDatabase

    14 1 1 1.8 PHP

    PurePHPDatabase is a very minimal database written to use on the limited accessed server.

    

17. ava

    15 1 0 4.0 PHP

    ✨ Addy's Very Adaptable CMS: ultra-lightweight, PHP-based content management system with configurable post types, taxonomies and fields (by adamgreenough)

    

18. SaaSHub

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