Backdrop CMS Alternatives

Backdrop CMS is described as 'Simple, lightweight, and easy to use Content Management System used to build attractive, professional websites. Use it for everything from a single-administrator's personal blog site, to a complex, multi-role, business e-commerce platform' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Backdrop CMS for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux, Mac and Web-based apps. The best Backdrop CMS alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Backdrop CMS are Ghost, Drupal, Jekyll and Joomla.

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  1. Laravel icon
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    Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

    49 Laravel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  2. Ruby on Rails icon
     63 likes

    Open source full-stack framework written in Ruby, leveraging MVC pattern, Active Record ORM, and convention over configuration. Enables rapid development, code scaffolding, secure defaults, asset management, database migration support, and easy integration with other tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ruby
     
  3. DEV Community icon
     30 likes

    Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow. It is an online community for sharing and discovering great ideas, having debates, and making friends. Anyone can share articles, questions, discussions, etc. as long as they have the rights to the words they are sharing.

    293 DEV Community alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. Symfony icon
     60 likes

    Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework to build web applications, APIs, microservices and web services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • BSD
     
  5. Known icon
     83 likes

    Known is a simple platform for publishing words, pictures, podcasts and more to a site that you control. Choose to share it on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, or extend it to integrate with the software you already use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Automad icon
     15 likes

    Automad is a file-based flat CMS and template engine. It is designed to be fully portable without any dependencies on databases or fixed locations and doesn't require any complicated setup process. All data gets stored in a human readable form.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  7. Textpattern icon
     51 likes

    Textpattern is an elegant content management system that is free, open source software with privacy and separation of content/design at its foundation.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  8. Gatsby icon
     17 likes

    Gatsby provides development teams an open source frontend framework for creating dynamic, optimized websites and a cloud platform for delivering them on a blazing fast edge network.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • React
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Gatsby is the most popular SaaS alternative to Backdrop CMS.

    • Gatsby is Freemium and Open SourceBackdrop CMS is Free and Open Source
  9. Cargo icon
     25 likes

    Cargo evolved out of the system that runs the SpaceCollective community. We found it remarkably successful and efficient in creating visual content on the web, placing a strong emphasis on design, layout, image quality and typography.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. django CMS icon
     62 likes

    django CMS is an Enterprise CMS built with Django and one of the most active open-source projects in the Django ecosystem. Since 2007 it powers tens of thousands of websites across the world, and benefits from a friendly developer community.

    88 django CMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Use a free (and ad-free) blogging platform to publish your ideas, share them with the Community and the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Kirby icon
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    Installing Kirby means uploading some files to your server and that's it. Blog articles, galleries, simple pages or complex product sheets – with Kirby you are not limited to a fixed data structure. Kirby is file-based – No database involved.

    90 Kirby alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
    • Kirby is the most popular commercial alternative to Backdrop CMS.

    • Kirby is Paid and ProprietaryBackdrop CMS is Free and Open Source
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