Content Management Tools cover a wide spread of needs, from visual website builders and drag-and-drop CMSs to static publishing systems and podcast or media publishing platforms.
The ranking is limited to open/source-visible tools in the supplied dataset. Tools are ordered by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used only as a secondary popularity signal when scores need a tie-breaker.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ycode | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 90 | 95 | 195 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Conrete CMS | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 83 | 76 | 842 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Vvveb | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 74 | 77 | 1079 | 82 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | camaleon-cms | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 77 | 72 | 1237 | 81 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Changelog | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 84 | 46 | 2767 | 75 | 🟢 Good |
| 6 | Umono | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 65 | 71 | 22 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 7 | Microweber | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 79 | 39 | 3420 | 71 | 🟢 Good |
| 8 | lara-zeus Sky | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 78 | 34 | 214 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 9 | Lektor | OSI-approved OSS | BSD-3-Clause | 70 | 20 | 3945 | 62 | 🟢 Good |
| 10 | Squilla | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 38 | 28 | 1 | 49 | 🟡 Fair |
| 11 | Microfeed | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 36 | 0 | 4004 | 38 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 12 | PrettyBlocks | OSI-approved OSS | AFL-3.0 | 36 | 0 | 93 | 38 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 13 | Pico CMS | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 31 | 0 | 3905 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 14 | Rpub | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 27 | 0 | 62 | 30 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Ycode ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 94, the highest score in the set. It pairs a 90 health score with a 95 shipping score, which makes it the strongest overall entry by the supplied data.
Conrete CMS ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 84 and an Excellent status. It has 842 GitHub stars, an 83 health score, and a 76 shipping score. The tool is described as an open source content management system and framework, with openness_label OSI-approved OSS and license_label MIT.
Vvveb ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 82 and the highest GitHub star count among the top four tools, at 1,079 stars. Its scores are balanced, with a 74 health score and 77 shipping score. Its openness_label is OSI-approved OSS and its license_label is AGPL-3.0.
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