Open-source Durable alternatives

WordPress is a content management system and publishing platform for building websites, blogs and apps. People write and organize content in a browser-based editor, choose how the site looks with themes, and publish without writing code. Its own site describes it as the platform behind millions of websites, from creators and small businesses to enterprises.

Design and editing are built around blocks, so pages can be assembled and rearranged visually with a live preview as content changes. Styling can be adjusted for different screen sizes and interactive states without writing CSS. Functionality is extended through a large library of plugins that add features such as stores, analytics, newsletters and social media integration.

The software is written in PHP and is open source; the GitHub repository is a read-only mirror of the project's Subversion repository, with development happening elsewhere. You can run it on your own hosting, and a managed service is also available through WordPress.com. It suits individual bloggers, small businesses and larger organizations alike.

Microweber combines a drag-and-drop page builder with a content management system on the PHP Laravel framework. It aims to let people create websites, online stores and blogs without technical skills, while still giving developers a modern code base to extend.

The README describes an array of modules, customizations and features tailored for e-commerce, and the current 2.0 version runs on Laravel 10. A shopping cart and content management features sit alongside the visual editor, and the documentation covers system requirements, installation and getting started. Topics include website builder and drag-and-drop.

Microweber is MIT-licensed and can be installed on your own hosting. It suits small businesses, freelancers and agencies that want to build a site or store visually, on an open-source PHP stack they can still modify.

Web Builder, also called Messenger Web Builder, is a low-code platform for generating and publishing user interfaces with AI. It builds on TailwindCSS and lets users create modern responsive UIs, dynamic customizable components, multi-theme and multi-language web applications visually by dragging components. The project describes itself as the first open-source low-code of its kind in China to use Drupal as a headless back end, and its documentation is mostly in Chinese.

Builder features include a dynamic layout builder with static or API data sources, component editing, copying and reordering, a media library, management of mini-program pages and components, page version history, draft detection, a library of templates and examples, copying a page's JSON to deploy, scroll animations with AOS and GSAP, a full-width mode, quick page generation from rules, multi-theme preview, light and dark styles, page preview and responsive preview across device sizes. AI models can generate UI, pages and tool apps.

It also ships Web Builder Skills, a Claude Code skill pack covering UI building in Storybook, translating page JSON and generating web image prompts. The front end uses Angular, the license is AGPL-3.0, and Docker deployment is documented.

Vvveb is a self-hosted CMS for building websites, blogs and online stores. It combines a drag-and-drop page builder with publishing tools such as revisions, media management, multi-user access and role permissions, plus localization and multi-language support.

For selling online it adds one-page checkout, subscriptions, digital assets, vouchers and coupons, and product options, attributes, variants, reviews and questions. A marketplace allows themes and plugins to be installed from the admin dashboard, custom fields, posts and products are supported, and a plugin system with events enables extensions. It can also run as a hybrid headless CMS through GraphQL and REST APIs.

The project highlights a small resource footprint, caching that makes pages load like static files, a bundled SEO plugin, brute-force and SQL injection protection, a hidden admin login page and an install where only one PHP file is publicly exposed. It needs PHP 7.4 or later, with 8.3 recommended, and a MySQL, SQLite or PostgreSQL driver. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0.