# Frontity

React framework for building WordPress websites, rendered by a Node.js server.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/frontity/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://frontity.org
- repository: https://github.com/frontity/frontity
- docs: https://docs.frontity.org/
- plugins: https://api.frontity.org/frontity-packages
- x: https://twitter.com/frontity
- forum: https://community.frontity.org/

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Worona Labs SL
- maintainerType: company
- parent: Automattic
- firstRelease: 2019
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: node
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: react

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: server
- installMethod: npx frontity create

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2022-02-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2930
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 709
- contributors: 36
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 63
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 253
- dependentPackages: 67

### Sources

- status: https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- status: https://frontity.org/legal/ (read 2026-10-23)
- status: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://frontity.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://docs.frontity.org/getting-started (read 2026-10-23)
- name: https://frontity.org/legal/ (read 2026-10-23)
- description: https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- basedOn: https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://docs.frontity.org/getting-started (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://frontity.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://frontity.org/ (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frontity/frontity/dev/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- parent: https://frontity.org/blog/frontity-is-joining-automattic/ (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/frontity/frontity/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/frontity (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://github.com/frontity/frontity/blob/dev/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/frontity (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/frontity (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Frontity is a React framework for building websites on WordPress. WordPress stays the place where content is written and edited, and Frontity reads that content through the WordPress REST API and renders the pages with React. A project starts with `npx frontity create`, is built with `npx frontity build`, and runs as a Node.js server on a different host from the WordPress one. The build folder can go to any hosting that serves Node.js apps, and the [deployment guide](https://docs.frontity.org/deployment) covers Vercel, Layer0 and Heroku. The code is copyrighted by Worona Labs SL, and Automattic acquired the project.

## Worth knowing

The README, the homepage and the legal page all say the framework is no longer under active development, and the repository is archived. A project built on it needs a WordPress site for content and a Node.js host for the front end, so both have to stay running.

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