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WriteFreely is a beautifully pared-down blogging platform that's simple on the surface, yet powerful underneath.
It's designed to be flexible and share your writing widely, so it's built around plain text and can publish to the fediverse via ActivityPub. It's easy to install and lightweight.
Features
- Start a blog for yourself, or host a community of writers
- Form larger federated networks, and interact over modern protocols like ActivityPub
- Build more advanced apps and extensions with the well-documented API
Quick start
First, download the latest release for your OS. It includes everything you need to start your blog.
Now extract the files from the archive, change into the directory, and do the following steps:
# 1) Log into MySQL and run:
# CREATE DATABASE writefreely;
#
# 2) Import the schema with:
mysql -u YOURUSERNAME -p writefreely < schema.sql
# 3) Configure your blog
./writefreely --config
# 4) Generate data encryption keys (especially for production)
./keys.sh
# 5) Run
./writefreely
# 6) Check out your site at the URL you specified in the setup process
# 7) There is no Step 7, you're done!
Development
Ready to hack on your site? Here's a quick overview.
Prerequisites
Setting up
go get github.com/writeas/writefreely/cmd/writefreely
Create your database, import the schema, and configure your site as shown above.
Now generate the CSS:
make install
make # Run this whenever you update your styles
Lastly, run the application (you could put this into a quick shell script called run.sh)
#!/bin/bash
go install ./... && writefreely --debug
License
Licensed under the AGPL.