User:DavidB64/FlatPress

FlatPress is a free open-source content management system used for creating  blog web sites. It is standard-compliant and multi-lingual extensible. A SimplePHPBlog file structure is used to stored content in flat files instead of a database. Template based Smarty themes are used. An interface simliar to WordPress is provided for support of plugins.

Since November 2006, FlatPress has been downloaded over 22,000 times from source.net. FlatPress is licensed under GNU/GPL 2. To install this application PHP 4.1 or newer is required.

Features

 * Standard-compliant (XHTML valid)
 * Plugin support
 * Widget system
 * Cache Feature
 * RSS feed: RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0
 * Smarty based themes
 * Stores all of its content on text files.
 * BBCode and Html tags are used in writing posts
 * Youtube video support
 * Supports multiple blog installations on the same website by installing it in another folder.
 * Backups are supported using an FTP client such as FileZilla

History
FlatPress began in 2006 by Edoardo Vacchi (NoWhereMan) who was then using SimplePHPBlog decided to create his own blogging engine. Working with Hydra (aka SamyWeb) and Drudo, FlatPress was born. Text files were used to take advantage of free web hosts offering PHP support. This allowed for quickly moving the blog site from one server to another without having to deal with complicated export/import procedures; just ftp download and re-upload.

Since then, it has become very popular on web hosts offering PHP support. A few reviews  of FlatPress describe it as a database-less version of Wordpress.

Support
For help in using FlatPress, visit the FlatPress Official forum. The language used on the forum is mostly English however Italian, French, and some other languages can be used instead. Documentation is available on the Official FlatPress wiki.