Pure Blog

Pure Blog is a simple, flat‐file blogging platform with a Markdown‐first editor and a lightweight admin area. It stores posts and pages as Markdown files on disk—no database required.

Features

• Flat-file content using Markdown and front matter.
• A clean, distraction-free admin dashboard for writing and organising posts/pages.
• Draft previews so you can check your work before publishing.
• Optional tags and tag archives for grouping related posts.
• Automatic pagination when your post list grows long.
• An RSS feed so readers can follow along however they like.
• Built-in search that helps readers find exactly what they’re looking for.
• A settings page that allows you to customise and configure your blog.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or newer
• A standard web server (Apache or Nginx)
• Required PHP extensions: mbstring, xml
• Recommended PHP extensions: curl, zip
• Write access to /config, /content, and /data

Nginx users: you will also need php-fpm configured alongside Nginx, as PHP-FPM is required to process PHP when not using Apache.

Getting started

All you need to run Pure Blog is a host that supports PHP (pretty much all of them do). Once you have that, all you need to do is:

1. Download the Pure Blog package.
2. Extract the zip file and upload the contents to your web server.
3. Visit the URL of your blog and setup will automatically start.
4. Once your site is setup, visit /admin and login to your new blog.

Content

Posts live in content/posts and pages live in content/pages. When images are uploaded they are stored in /content/images/[post/page-slug].

Notes

• Pure Blog is intentionally minimal and designed for personal sites.
• HTML in Markdown is supported.