Alternatives and competitors

Sites like WordPress

The 20 closest content management system alternatives to WordPress, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to WordPress? The closest matches are Drupal, Joomla and Moodle. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

Neighbours
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Sites searched
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Query
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01 · Entity

About WordPress

WordPress wordpress.org

Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

Wikidata: content management system

Top 100 · #67 English 6 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit WordPress

Summary by Claude

Official home of WordPress, free open-source content management software for building websites and blogs, with downloads, a theme and plugin directory, documentation, and community resources.

Who it’s for
Website owners, bloggers, developers, businesses
Business model
Free open-source software; community and donation supported

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to WordPress’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

phpMyAdminZoteroBloggerPHPMediaWikiBluehostWooCommerceMoodleJoomlaDrupal

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to WordPress

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to WordPress, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  2. 02
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English

    Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

    Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

  3. 03
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    Moodle challenge

    e-learning platform

  4. 04
    WooCommerce woocommerce.com Top 10K English

    WooCommerce

    WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.

  5. 05
    Bluehost bluehost.com Top 1K English

    Cloudflare Captcha Page | Bluehost.com

    web hosting company

  6. 06
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  7. 07
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  8. 08
    Blogger blogger.com Top 1K English

    Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.

    Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.

  9. 09
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  10. 10
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  11. 11
    WP Engine® wpengine.com Top 10K English

    Trusted Website Hosting Platform | WP Engine®

    WP Engine® is a leading website hosting platform, trusted by over 5M websites. Learn more about our 24/7 support and security solutions.

  12. 12
    Colorlib colorlib.com Top 10K English

    WordPress Themes & Website Templates - Colorlib

    Colorlib creates beautiful, high-performance WordPress themes and website templates. Trusted by millions of creators since 2013.

  13. 13
    phpBB phpbb.com Top 10K English

    open-source Internet forum package written in PHP

  14. 14
    Ghost ghost.org Top 10K English

    Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

    Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

  15. 15
    Themeforest themeforest.net Top 10K English

    WordPress Themes & Website Templates from ThemeForest

    Discover 1000s of premium WordPress themes & website templates, including multipurpose and responsive Bootstrap templates, email templates & HTML templates.

  16. 16
    Neocities neocities.org Top 10K English

    Neocities: Create your own free website!

    Create and surf awesome websites for free.

  17. 17
    Ollama ollama.com Top 10K

    Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud

    Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

  18. 18
    DreamHost dreamhost.com Top 1K English

    Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost

    DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!

  19. 19
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  20. 20
    Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

    Wikibooks

    free multilingual online collection of textbooks

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to wordpress.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones WordPress uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What WordPress is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
  • WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.2-beta4-65303
Fonts
Tag managers
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.2-beta4-65303)
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what WordPress adds or drops shows up here.

SimilarSiteSearch

Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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