Sure, WordPress is awesome.

But have you considered these open source alternatives?

They are free, self-hostable and community-driven.

Check by yourself: Ghost , Directus .

So is Ghost

Headless CMS for professional publishing
★ 55K CMS Blog License: MIT
Ghost is the most popular open sourcem headless Node.js CMS which already works with all the tools you know and love.

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So is Directus

Un CMS headless open-source
★ 37.5K CMS Database Data License: BSL
Directus este o API în timp real și dashboard de aplicație pentru gestionarea conținutului bazelor de date SQL.

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