Self-hosted Blogging Platforms software

A blog is a discussion or informational website consisting of discrete, diary-style text entries (posts).

14 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Just a blogging platform.

Actively maintained ★ 55.7k MIT ~$5/mo

Writing software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community.

Actively maintained ★ 5.3k AGPL-3.0 ~$3.5/mo

Lightweight federated publishing platform focused on personal idea sharing (documentation in Chinese).

Actively maintained ★ 2.1k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Private blogging system with markdown editing and built in RSS reader.

Actively maintained ★ 813 MIT ~$5/mo

Extra-awesome, extra-lightweight blog engine.

Actively maintained ★ 498 BSD-3-Clause ~$5/mo

Naked blogging platform for minimalists.

Actively maintained ★ 375 MIT ~$5/mo

Micro-blog tool offering built-in syntax highlighting, mobile publishing and more (alternative to Twitter, Bluesky).

Actively maintained ★ 336 MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Databaseless PHP blogging platform. A flat-file CMS that allows you to create a fast, secure, and powerful website or blog in seconds.

Maintained ★ 1.4k GPL-2.0 ~$5/mo

Collaborative social publishing platform.

Maintained ★ 1.1k Apache-2.0 ~$5/mo

Highly extensible and customizable PHP blog engine using Smarty templating (s9y).

Actively maintained ★ 229 BSD-3-Clause ~$5/mo

Lightweight, easy-to-set-up flat-file blogging engine.

Actively maintained ★ 218 GPL-2.0 ~$5/mo

XML-based blog/CMS platform.

Maintained ★ 233 GPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

Feature-rich blog hosting software which can host tens of thousands of blogs.

Maintained ★ 90 Apache-2.0 ~$5/mo

Take control over your blog.

Health unknown GPL-2.0 ~$5/mo

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