Alternatives to WordPress
The web's most popular CMS.
- What is WordPress?
- WordPress is an open-source content management system for blogs, marketing sites and online stores.
- What does it do?
- It manages pages and posts through a block editor, with themes controlling design and plugins adding ecommerce, SEO, forms or membership. You can self-host the software or use the hosted WordPress.com service.
- Who is it for?
- People who need a site they can edit without a developer, and agencies building client sites at volume. Teams wanting an API-first headless CMS or a purely static site usually look elsewhere.
Pricing
$4/mo (Personal)
Self-host WordPress.org free
Freemium
About
Founded 2003
Open source
Powers ~43% of the web.
Founders
The people behind WordPress.
Top alternatives
Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with WordPress.
Visual CMS.
Editing happens on the live page, but the content is Markdown in Git, not a database.