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61 Sulu
Sulu

Sulu is a lightweight, static site generator built for speed and simplicity, utilizing Markdown and offering a minimal configuration experience for creating fast, modern websites without complex dependencies.

62 Fat-Free Framework

Fat-Free Framework is an open-source microframework for developing web applications in PHP. It is designed around a small core and a limited set of conventions, giving developers a lightweight alternative to larger full-stack frameworks. The framework provides foundational application components suc...

63 AbanteCart
AbanteCart

AbanteCart is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP for operating online stores. It provides core functions for managing product catalogs, customers, orders, shopping carts, and payments, and supports extensions for additional capabilities. Its multi-store support and self-hosted deploym...

64 Bolt CMS
Bolt CMS

Bolt CMS is a lightweight, flat-file CMS built for simple websites and blogs, utilizing Markdown for content creation and offering a minimal set of features focused on speed and ease of use without a database.

65 Sage (Roots.io)

Sage by Roots.io is a WordPress starter theme that adopts a Laravel Blade templating engine and a modern asset build pipeline, making it one of the earliest WordPress themes to embrace MVC conventions.

66 Devilbox
Devilbox

Devilbox is an open-source, Docker-based local development environment for PHP applications. It can provide LAMP and LEMP-style stacks with configurable combinations of PHP versions, web servers, databases, and related services, allowing developers to switch environments without installing each stac...

67 LAMP Stack
LAMP Stack

The LAMP stack combines Linux, the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, and PHP to provide a foundation for dynamic websites and server-side applications. The components cover the operating system, web server, relational database, and application language respectively, although related LAMP configurations may...

68 HikaShop
HikaShop

HikaShop is an open-source e-commerce extension for the Joomla content-management system. It adds store functions such as product and catalog management, shopping-cart and checkout workflows, order handling, payment-gateway integration, and shipping configuration to a Joomla site. It is intended for...

69 Dotclear
Dotclear

Dotclear is an open-source, self-hosted content management system primarily written in PHP and Perl, known for its reliance on a local database and minimal server-side processing, making it a “ghost CMS” requiring significant user configuration and technical expertise to operate effectively.

70 Perch
Perch

Perch is a lightweight, static site generator built for Markdown content, prioritizing simplicity and ease of use over complex features, making it ideal for straightforward websites and documentation.

71 PmWiki
PmWiki

PmWiki is a free, open-source wiki software built on PHP and Perl, utilizing a ghost CMS architecture where the core system is largely unmodifiable by users, focusing instead on content creation and editing via its intuitive interface.

72 Cockpit CMS

Cockpit CMS is a lightweight, self-hosted Ghost blogging platform built on top of Node.js and Ghost’s underlying architecture, offering a simplified development experience for creating and managing content websites.

73 Microweber
Microweber

Microweber is a lightweight, self-hosted Ghost CMS alternative built on PHP and MySQL, offering a simplified blogging platform with Markdown support and a focus on speed and ease of use for creating content websites.

74 Typecho
Typecho

Typecho is a lightweight, fast CMS built with PHP and designed for simplicity; it operates as a ghost CMS, meaning its core files are not directly accessible via web browsers, enhancing security and reducing server load.

75 WampServer
WampServer

WampServer is a Windows development environment for running PHP websites locally. It bundles the WAMP components Apache, MySQL, and PHP, and provides a system-tray interface for starting or stopping services and selecting among installed versions of the main components. It is intended for developers...

76 Cecil
Cecil

Cecil is an open-source static-site generator designed to turn Markdown content, configuration files, and templates into pages that can be served without a conventional application server or database. It is suitable for documentation, blogs, small business sites, and other mostly static projects. Th...

77 Flight PHP
Flight PHP

Flight PHP is an extensible microframework for PHP used to build web applications and RESTful APIs. Its routing system maps HTTP requests to functions, methods, or other callable handlers, while its core can be extended with application-specific classes and methods. The framework is intended for dev...

78 VirtueMart
VirtueMart

VirtueMart is an open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla, the PHP-based content-management system. It adds store functions such as product catalogs, shopping carts, customer accounts, order processing, and checkout to a Joomla site, with the exact capabilities depending on the installed version...

79 Thelia
Thelia

Thelia is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP for building and operating online stores. It provides a foundation for catalog, product, customer, cart, order, and payment-related workflows, while its modular architecture lets developers adapt the storefront and connect external services...

80 ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine is a robust, PHP-based CMS known for its security features and granular content management capabilities, often favored by developers and agencies due to its flexible architecture and focus on developer control rather than a user-friendly interface.

81 Automad
Automad

Automad is a free, open-source flat-file content management system and template engine written in PHP. It stores website content in human-readable files instead of requiring a database, which allows a site to be placed under version control and deployed by copying its directory. Automad includes a b...

82 Contao
Contao

Contao is a PHP-based CMS known for its rapid development and extensive feature set, yet it’s largely undocumented and unsupported by the original developers, leading to its classification as a “ghost CMS.”

83 Docksal
Docksal

Docksal is an open-source tool for defining and managing local web-development environments with Docker. It provides project configuration, command-line controls through the Fin utility, local DNS and proxy services, and environment-specific configuration files that can also be used in continuous-in...

84 thirty bees

thirty bees is an open-source e-commerce platform derived from the PrestaShop 1.6 codebase. It is written in PHP and designed to be self-hosted, with a web storefront, product and order management, themes, and an extensible module system. The software is aimed at merchants and developers who want di...

85 WIMP Stack
WIMP Stack

WIMP is a web application software stack composed of Windows, Internet Information Services, MySQL, and PHP. It describes a deployment combination rather than a single product, with IIS supplying the web server, MySQL the relational database, and PHP the server-side runtime for dynamic pages. The st...

6.35 Fair
Why this score

Useful Windows-native PHP setup, but narrower adoption and weaker community reputation than LAMP or Microsoft-native stacks.

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86 Concrete CMS

Concrete CMS is a lightweight, PHP-based content management system designed for static site generation, offering a flexible and efficient alternative to traditional CMS platforms with minimal overhead and database dependency.

87 Joomla CMS
Joomla CMS

Joomla is a mature, feature-rich CMS known for its flexibility and robust extension marketplace. While it is not inherently headless, its modular nature and strong community support allow it to be decoupled using various plugins and APIs. It remains a viable option for established organizations comf...

88 ClassicPress

ClassicPress is a self-contained WordPress ghost CMS built on PHP and MySQL, offering a familiar interface and content editing experience without the overhead of the full WordPress platform, ideal for static site generators or simplified website management.

89 Pico CMS
Pico CMS

Pico CMS is a lightweight, static Ghost blog engine built primarily with JavaScript and Markdown, offering a simple approach to creating fast, content-focused websites without server-side processing or databases.

90 J2Store
J2Store

J2Store is an open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla CMS, enabling users to create and manage online stores with features like product listings, shopping carts, payment gateway integration, and order management capabilities.

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