A simple, file-based, markdown-driven blog engine with web interface.
- light-weight
- beautiful, minimalistic, HTML5 responsive default layout
- file based, no data base needed
- create, edit and delete in the web interface or upload files manually
- web interface with live preview
- no comments, no categories, no tags - just text*
- markdown formatting
- full text search
- RSS feed
- opt-out prettified URLs
- English and German localization
- simple and quick installer
You can easily add features to your mdbl0g by installing plugins. Just download one and drop it into the plugins/ directory. There are already some available at the mdbl0g Plugin Directory.
If you want to develop your own plugins, have a look at the Plugin API.
You need at least PHP version 5.1.0, Apache mod_auth_basic for HTTP Basic Auth (Admin Interface) and optionally Apache mod_rewrite for Pretty URLs. Or any other web server that uses Apache configuration files and implements mod_auth_basic and mod_rewrite. You don't need any sort of database, because mdbl0g is a file based blog engine.
If you have no clue what all this means -- it will probably work ;) Just give it a shot!
Download the mdbl0g files from GitHub and upload them to your server. You can also check out the repository with git which makes updating easier:
git clone git://github.com/Ps0ke/mdbl0g.git
Now point your browser to http://YOURDOMAIN.com/mdbl0g/install/ or where ever you uploaded the files. The installer will guide you through the simple installation process. When told to do so, delete the install/ directory and you are ready to go.
Since the file format is very simple, you can easily export your existing blog to use the posts with mdbl0g. Here is a small script to import from Wordpress.
Q: Isn't a file based blog really slow?
A: No. Network latency is a way bigger problem for performance as disc I/O. At least if you deal with a (for a blog) reasonable amount of data. I even tested the limits of mdbl0g, you can read about it at my (mdbl0g-driven) blog.
Copyright (c) 2012 Philipp Stephan
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- The beautiful 'Average' typeface by Eduardo Tunni (License: SIL Open Font License, 1.1) using Google's awesome Web Fonts API
- PHP Markdown 1.0.1o (License: BSD-style / GPL 2)
- showdown.js (License: BSD)
- PHP-like Javascript Date.format (License: MIT)