Self-Hosted Software Blogging Platforms

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1. Antville

Free, open source project aimed at the development of a high performance, feature rich weblog hosting software. ([Source Code](https://github.com/antville/antville)) `Apache-2.0` `Javascript`

2. Blog

Facebook-styled blog. Free, extremely lightweight, single-user and easy to install. ([Demo](https://blog.m1k1o.net/)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP`

3. Blogotext

Free blog-engine written in PHP and using SQLite. This offers you both an unmatched simplicity during installation and great performances. `MIT` `PHP`

4. Bludit

Simple application to build a site or blog in seconds. Bludit uses flat-files (text files in JSON format) to store posts and pages. ([Demo](https://demo.bludit.com/), [Source Code](https://github.com/bludit/bludit)) `MIT` `PHP`

5. Cadmus

Cadmus is an extremely lightweight, flat-file blogging platform powered by Markdown. `MIT` `PHP`

6. Canvas

A Laravel publishing platform. ([Source Code](https://github.com/austintoddj/canvas)) `MIT` `PHP`

7. Chyrp Lite

Extra-awesome, extra-lightweight blog engine. ([Source Code](https://github.com/xenocrat/chyrp-lite)) `BSD-3-Clause` `PHP`

8. Dante Stories

Self hosted Medium platform built with Ruby on Rails. ([Source Code](https://github.com/michelson/dante-stories)) `MIT` `Ruby`

9. Dotclear

Take control over your blog. ([Source Code](https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear)) `GPL-2.0` `PHP`

10. Formtools

Powerful, flexible, free and open source PHP/MySQL script to manage your forms and data. ([Source Code](https://github.com/formtools)) `GPL-2.0` `PHP`

11. Ghost

Just a blogging platform. ([Source Code](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost)) `MIT` `Nodejs`

12. Haven

Private blogging system with markdown editing and built in RSS reader. ([Demo](https://havenweb.org/demo.html), [Source Code](https://github.com/havenweb/haven)) `MIT` `Ruby`

13. Hotglue

Freehand CMS which allows to construct websites directly in a web-browser. It uses flat files for storage and provides an intuitive GUI. ([Demo](https://hotglue.me/demo/), [Source Code](https://github.com/k0a1a/hotglue2)) `GPL-3.0` `PHP`

14. htmly

Databaseless Blogging Platform (Flat-File Blog). ([Demo](https://demo.htmly.com/), [Source Code](https://github.com/danpros/htmly)) `GPL-2.0` `PHP`

15. Known

A collaborative social publishing platform. ([Source Code](https://github.com/idno/known)) `Apache-2.0` `PHP`

16. Plume

Federated blogging engine, based on ActivityPub. ([Source Code](https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume)) `AGPL-3.0` `Rust`

17. PluXml

XML-based blog/CMS platform. ([Source Code](https://github.com/pluxml/PluXml)) `GPL-1.0` `PHP`

18. Serendipity

Serendipity (s9y) is a highly extensible and customizable PHP blog engine using Smarty templating. ([Source Code](https://github.com/s9y/serendipity)) `BSD-3-Clause` `PHP`