flatfileblog

Minimalistic MVC flat file markdown blog tool.

The idea

Avoid DBs
Avoid WYSIWYG
Avoid writing inside a browser form
Use git and github for full versioning and backup both of the code and the blog's content
Use a text editor, not a browser form, to write your posts in markdown (.md) format
Use a text editor, not a browser form, to enter your static data and texts (.csv file)
Or, if you prefer or must (browser access only), you can edit both .md and .csv files directly through github, which renders both nicely.

Write your posts using markdown (either in a text editor or directly through github) and save them in the content/posts folder, minding the filename format.
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Profit!

FlatFileBlog has all of the basic blog features, and more!

home page with latest posts, latest first
individual posts with permalink
pretty urls
post title in <title> tag
various archives options
- previous/next navigation from the home page listing X latest posts (x by x)
- previous/next navigation from individual post page (1 by 1)
- full list of all posts
markdown parser
less parser
rss feed
valid html and css
minified html and css
easily extensible MVC codebase

the filename must start with an ISO 8601 formatted date, then underscore, then the pretty url, and end in .md
the first line of the file is the title, the second line is ignored, the best is to use the === formatting for h1