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title: "CMS Templates: Deploy Strapi, Directus, and WordPress"
description: "Deploy CMS templates on Railway in one click. Run Strapi, Directus, WordPress, and other content systems on always-on infrastructure."
url: https://railway.com/deploy/category/cms
---

# Deploy an open source CMS in one click

Templates in this category deploy content management systems in one click. WordPress, Strapi, Directus, and Payload cover traditional and headless setups, and Postiz handles social media scheduling. Each template creates the CMS and its database in your own project.

Content stays in infrastructure you control, running 24/7 with usage based pricing and a free trial.

## Common questions about CMS templates

### How do I self-host a headless CMS?

Deploy Strapi, Directus, or Payload in one click. Railway creates the CMS with its database preconfigured, and your frontend fetches content over the API it exposes.

### Can Directus turn my existing database into an API?

Yes. Directus wraps a SQL database with a REST and GraphQL API plus an admin app, and the template deploys the whole thing in one click.

### Do CMS templates include a database?

Yes. Each template ships with its database preconfigured and connected, from MySQL for WordPress to Postgres for Payload.

### Where do uploaded media files go?

Persistent volumes keep uploads across restarts and redeploys, and some templates wire object storage instead.

## Related

- Browse all templates: https://railway.com/deploy
- Railway docs: https://docs.railway.com

## All 1 CMS templates

- [WordPress](https://railway.com/deploy/wordpress) - A content management system (CMS) written in PHP

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