Chyrp Lite
Chyrp Lite is an ultra-lightweight blogging engine written in PHP, designed for speed, simplicity and extensibility. It focuses on the essential act of publishing — writing and sharing your thoughts — while keeping the codebase small and the page loads fast. Despite its size, it packs a modular system of feathers, modules and themes that lets you shape it to your needs.
Key Features
- Ultra-lightweight core — A tiny, fast PHP codebase that runs on modest hosting
- Feathers — Flexible content types (text, image, quote, link, video and more) extend what a “post” can be
- Modules and themes — A pluggable architecture for adding features and changing the look
- Smarty templating — Clean template separation for developers and theme designers
- SQLite or MySQL — Uses a database for reliability, with SQLite offering a zero-config option
- REST API — Publish and manage content programmatically from external tools
- Multi-user support — Run a blog with multiple authors and granular permissions
- Built-in comments — Comment system with moderation and anti-spam features
Why Use Chyrp Lite?
Chyrp Lite is for people who find full-fat CMS platforms overwhelming. It gives you a focused blogging experience with just enough flexibility — feathers for different content types, modules for added features and Smarty themes for custom design — all in a package that runs almost anywhere PHP runs. It is actively maintained and remarkably fast.
Use Cases
- Personal blogs and portfolios that need a fast, minimal platform
- Developers who want a hackable, template-driven blog engine
- Multi-author blogs on shared hosting with limited resources
- Writers who want the reliability of a database without the overhead of a big CMS
Platform
Web-based (self-hosted) · Linux · macOS · Windows hosting · Any PHP host
Licence
BSD-3-Clause