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.

Development, not drama.

Chyrp Lite has been in development since 2014, steadily evolving and improving with every release. The project is focused on maintaining a simple, reliable, extensible blogging platform that respects web standards and is well suited to a typical shared hosting environment. There's no time for drama; we're too busy building a blogging platform that puts you in complete control.

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.