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Top 10 PHP Blogging Projects
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WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.
Project mention: What App Would Prevent a Website from Getting Hacked, and Why? | dev.to | 2025-12-14Why is this effective? Traditional firewalls block known threats based on signatures, but hackers evolve quickly, using zero-day exploits that bypass these rules. CodeLock's AI model, continuously trained on evolving data, adapts to new patterns, reducing false positives while enhancing accuracy. In educational institutions, where sensitive student data is at stake, such proactive measures could prevent breaches that expose personal information. Implementation might involve integrating the app via APIs with popular content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, which is vulnerable to plugin exploits in many cases. Potential drawbacks include computational overhead, but optimizations like cloud-based processing could mitigate this.
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: Vvveb – open-source CMS drag-and-drop site builder | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-10
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Thanks to Matt's shenanigans I discovered ClassicPress a few months ago https://www.classicpress.net/ - I had such a good experience that I ended up migrating all of my self hosted blogs to it, as a form of insurance against further future madness with the WP Foundation. Note that depending on what plugins or themes you are using, ClassicPress might not work as well for you. You can consider setting up a monthly donation to support development.
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URLify
A fast PHP slug generator and transliteration library that converts non-ascii characters for use in URLs.
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libarea
A platform for collective blogs and social media platform, forum, question and answer service (Q&A). A community based on the PHP HLEB micro-framework.
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smolblog
A blog engine for the social web. This is the monorepo that contains the PHP code for the project.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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ava
✨ Ava CMS: A fast, flexible, flat-file CMS for bespoke personal websites, blogs, portfolios, digital gardens, docs and more (by avacms)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Blogging projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WordPress | 20,802 |
| 2 | Vvveb CMS | 954 |
| 3 | ClassicPress | 829 |
| 4 | URLify | 675 |
| 5 | libarea | 121 |
| 6 | Luminosity | 28 |
| 7 | smolblog | 6 |
| 8 | ava | 5 |
| 9 | Blogs | 2 |
| 10 | Promptly | 1 |
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