WordPress Is in Trouble

1. Ghost

   1 327 49,089 10.0 JavaScript

   Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

   

   There is Ghost at least: https://ghost.org/ https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

   However, it has recently shifted to more limited audience. (payed subscription-based content with different tiers)

2. CodeRabbit

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3. cms

   2 38 4,344 9.9 PHP

   The core Laravel CMS Composer package

   

4. Kirby

   3 62 1,382 9.8 PHP

   Kirby's core application folder

   

   PHP based static file CMS (w/o database) to render markdown on the fly:

   * Kirby: https://getkirby.com/

5. Gollum

   4 45 13,987 7.5 Ruby

   A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.

   

   Depends on your target user. If you want something really simple for developers, https://github.com/gollum/gollum is pretty neat (is what powers the Wiki system on GitHub), while if you want something simple for people who aren't developers, something like Mediawiki would fit better. Although Mediawiki requires a database, you can use SQLite (which is basically a file on disk as a DB) for it.

   Dokuwiki is also a neat old-school alternative that basically treats files on disk as articles/pages, so no (other) DB needed.

6. wp2grav_exporter

   5 2 9 7.2 PHP

   Exports Wordpress content to GravCMS

   

   GravCMS is a flat-file CMS (content is saved to markdown, making it quite portable if you decide it's not for you). There isn't wiki-functionality (auto-create pages that don't exist), however.

   I wrote an exporter from WP to Grav [1].

   [1] https://github.com/jgonyea/wp2grav_exporter

7. Grav

   6 92 14,908 7.8 PHP

   Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

   

8. tinacms

   7 71 12,459 9.6 TypeScript

   A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing

   

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. decap-cms

    8 92 18,293 7.9 JavaScript

    A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

    

11. chatgpt-shell

    9 32 1,025 9.8 Emacs Lisp

    A multi-llm Emacs shell (ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Kagi, Ollama, Perplexity) + editing integrations

    

    I just launched a drag and drop service myself https://lmno.lol

    No tracking, adverts, paywalls, or bloat. I'm also bringing a little nostalgia back with ASCII art headers (optional of course).

    Here's my blog on it: https://lmno.lol/alvaro

    Wrote a bit about how I got to build my own service https://lmno.lol/alvaro/blogging-minus-the-yucky-bits-of-mod...

12. Publii

    10 106 6,665 9.3 HTML

    The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.

    

    Publii is another one with static generation capabilities (https://getpublii.com)

13. wp2hugo

    11 5 254 9.2 Go

    The best WordPress to static site migrator

    

    Not the OP but I have migrated to Hugo as well. There's a number of tools to convert to Hugo from a WordPress XML export. I used wp2hugo, IIRC: https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo

    Dead easy. Took an afternoon to do everything, including fiddling with DNS and trying different themes, etc.

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