| In the web designing and development industry, WordPress is the most popular choice. Its flexibility has contributed a lot to its popularity factor. Though WordPress is a great platform to use by bloggers, there are some great alternatives to it too, which may fulfill your requirements in a much better way. So here we give you a list of 10 most suitable alternatives to WordPress: |
1. Ghost:
Ghost is one of the best alternatives to WordPress. Ghost is a superb blogging platform which is not interested to be a CMS, unlike WordPress. Ghost only focuses on being a blogging platform. It has a simple UI and it has been created with JavaScript. JavaScript offers Ghost better speed than PHP-based WordPress.
2. Movabletype.org:
Movabletype is another good alternative to WordPress blogging CMS which provides plug-in and theme support just like its counterpart. The best part is it’s open source and a pro version is also offered for business use.
3. IM Creator:
IM Creator, a website builder, is a good alternative to WordPress, and it offers mobile-friendly templates which are much better than WP templates. Template categories include wedding, hotel and restaurant, architect etc. It provides support for articles and manuals too.
It’s also a great alternative which is quite popular among publishers. This platform is great for blogging, though it’s not free.
5. Jekyll:
Jekyll is a static site generator which takes text files and puts them together to create a static HTML site. Created by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston=Werner, Jekyll is best suited for hackers.
6. Cushycms.com:
This CMS is quite different from WordPress. It’s free for five sites maximum, provides great language support, can use its own logo and scheme too.
7. SilverStripe:
SilverStripe is a CMS which is used for building websites, intranets and web applications. It’s also open source and it’s free to use. SilverStripe is known for small business owners and its Framework platform also benefits a lot.
8. Tumblr:
If you want a quick-managed blog then Tumblr is the best option for you. It’s a great service for a good 3rd party hosted service and it’s quite simple to use.
9. Statamic:
It’s a flat-file CMS which blends static and dynamic elements. That’s why it’s called Statamic. No relational database management system or MySQL is used in Statamic, rather it stores content in a simple directory structure using flat files. It’s one of the best CMSes in the world.
10. Habari:
It’s open source and it supports the Google group to a large extent. It also supports forums, it has variety of plug-ins and it also supports modern themes.
If you have some suggestions of your own please let us know in comments!
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