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2026-05-01: Happy 20th, FlatPress! A guest post by Edoardo Vacchi

Hi from Edoardo (or, as some of you may remember me, “NoWhereMan”) ...
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2026-04-25: The Mastodon plugin as a Fediverse bridge

In my ongoing development work, I focused on the response time of FlatPress 1.5 Stringendo ...
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2026-03-24: New release: FlatPress 1.5.1

We just published a bugfix release for FlatPress 1.5 “Stringendo” ... ⇒ Read on

FlatPress is a lightweight, easy-to-set-up blogging engine. Plain and simple, just PHP. No database needed! Being around since 2006, FlatPress is mature and well-tested.
Find out more about the FlatPress project and its philosophy in our FAQ.

Features

  • 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

Sounds good? Proceed to download or check out the demo!

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