Publify is a simple but full featured web publishing software. It’s built around a blogging engine and a small message system connected to Twitter. The software follows the principles of the IndieWeb, which are self hosting your Web site, and Publish On your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere.
This software was previously known as Typo.
Publify is free and open source software that’s been in development since 2004.
Key Features
- A classic multi user blogging engine.
- Short messages with a Twitter connection.
- Text filters (Markdown, Textile, SmartyPants, @mention to link, #hashtag to link).
- A widgets system and a drag and drop plugins API.
- Custom themes.
- Custom templates.
- Advanced SEO capabilities.
- Multilingual: Publify is translated in English, French, German, Danish, Norwegian, Japanese, Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian…
Website: publify.github.io
Support: Wiki, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: The Publify team
License: MIT License
Publify is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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