Chyrp Lite
An ultra-lightweight blogging engine, written in PHP.
What can Chyrp Lite do for me?
Chyrp Lite makes it possible to host a blog on your own web server with minimal fuss. You can have a traditional blog, a tumbleblog, or you can add oodles of customisation and build a general-purpose web publishing platform with blogging features on the side. You get five beautiful blog themes and a friendly administration console, all fully navigable on a broad range of devices, thanks to the power of responsive HTML5. Semantic markup and comprehensive ARIA labelling ensure your blog will be accessible to visitors who use assistive technologies.
With a flexible system of Feathers and Pages, you can make your website whatever you want it to be. Feathers enable different types of blog content – you can restrict yourself to absolute textual purity, or you can create a multimedia rainbow. Pages let you publish articles separate from your blog content – be it a simple colophon or a hierarchy of multiple pages.
Chyrp Lite is actively maintained and updated regularly to stay compatible with the latest web standards and technologies. It may be old-fashioned, but it's not stuck in the past. Your questions, suggestions, and feedback are welcome: start a discussion or raise an issue on GitHub.
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What are the key features?
- Easy to install, simple to maintain, extensible by design.
- Built with responsive and accessible W3C-validated HTML5.
- Universal support for plain text, Markdown, or raw markup.
- Personalise your blog using powerful extensions.
- Theme development is easy with the Twig template engine.
- Manage users and visitors with a comprehensive rights model.
- Send and receive webmentions when URLs are mentioned.
- Feathers for posting text, quotes, links, and all types of media.
- Bundled modules for tagging, commenting, caching, and more!