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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

Django-based CMS with StreamField page building, popular with Python teams, publishers and governments.

PHP CMS powering over 40% of the web, with themes, plugins, WooCommerce and the Gutenberg block editor.

Enterprise-grade PHP CMS with flexible content modeling; Drupal CMS packages it for site builders.

Node.js publishing platform for blogs and newsletters with paid memberships and ActivityPub federation.

Head to head

Metric	Wagtail	WordPress	Drupal	Ghost
Stars	20.6k	21.5k	4.3k	55.7k
Weekly downloads	174k	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	+24%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	71/100	79/100	66/100	87/100
Forks	4.7k	13k	2k	12.1k
Open issues	1k	3	0	230
Last commit	1w ago	5d ago	1w ago	1d ago
Latest version	8.1Nov 2, 2026	n/a	n/a	n/a
License	BSD-3-Clause	n/a	n/a	MIT
First released	2014	2011	2009	2013
Signals	None	Popular	None	None
Listed in	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): WordPress, Drupal, Ghost.

Django-based CMS with StreamField page building, popular with Python teams, publishers and governments.

PHP CMS powering over 40% of the web, with themes, plugins, WooCommerce and the Gutenberg block editor.

Enterprise-grade PHP CMS with flexible content modeling; Drupal CMS packages it for site builders.

Node.js publishing platform for blogs and newsletters with paid memberships and ActivityPub federation.

Metric	Wagtail	WordPress	Drupal	Ghost
Stars	20.6k	21.5k	4.3k	55.7k
Weekly downloads	174k	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	+24%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	71/100	79/100	66/100	87/100
Forks	4.7k	13k	2k	12.1k
Open issues	1k	3	0	230
Last commit	1w ago	5d ago	1w ago	1d ago
Latest version	8.1Nov 2, 2026	n/a	n/a	n/a
License	BSD-3-Clause	n/a	n/a	MIT
First released	2014	2011	2009	2013
Signals	None	Popular	None	None
Listed in	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS	CMS, Content & Commerce › Traditional & Blogging CMS

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): WordPress, Drupal, Ghost.