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CMS Made Simplevswanderer

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

CMS Made Simplewanderer
Score64/10064/100
Rank in category#12 of 42 in Content Management#7 of 34 in File Management
GitHub stars—4 030
Stars, last 30 days—+131
Stable releases, 12 months010
Latest release—v0.21.2 · 24 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main language—Go

Which one should you pick?

CMS Made Simple and wanderer score the same (64/100), so the choice comes down to the details below.

wanderer ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for CMS Made Simple.

wanderer is growing faster right now (+131 stars in 30 days).

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