FlatPress is a lightweight, easy-to-set-up blogging engine. Plain and simple, just PHP. No database needed!

• Independent, standard-compliant blog software
• Works on files, no database
• Easy to setup, easy to backup
• Powerful plugin system with widget support
• Easy to customize with themes, powered by Smarty
• Comments function with spam protection
• Free software under GNU GPLv2
• Supported languages: 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇳🇱 🇧🇷 🇷🇺 🇸🇮 🇹🇷 (easy to add yours!)

Installing and running FlatPress is really easy:

• Download FlatPress, unzip, upload
• Browse to your web server, run simple FlatPress installer
• Enjoy blogging with FlatPress!

You can view live demo here:

https://softaculous.com/demos/flatpress

Visit our wiki to learn everything about blogging with FlatPress, how to work with themes and plugins and where to find them. The wiki also has the General FAQ and the Tech FAQ.

Ask your questions, show off your FlatPress blog and meet fellow FlatPressers at the support forum.

FlatPress runs on any web server (e.g. Apache, NGINX or IIS) with PHP 7.1 to PHP 8.4 (more details on the wiki). Since all data is stored in files, no database is needed.

FlatPress uses automated checks to improve code quality and security:

• PHPStan is executed with every change to detect potential errors, unclean code and violations of best practices at an early stage.
• CodeQL analyzes the source code for known security risks and vulnerabilities through semantic code analysis.

These tools run automatically via GitHub Actions, both for pull requests and regularly in the background.

There are many people who contributed to FlatPress over the years. See them here.