FlatPress
FlatPress is a lightweight, easy-to-set-up flat-file blogging engine written in PHP. It stores your posts as plain text files instead of using a database, which makes it ideal for low-resource hosting, quick personal blogs, and anyone who wants their content in a simple, portable format they can back up with a file copy.
Key Features
- No database required — Posts are stored as flat files, so there is nothing to configure or maintain
- Trivial setup — Upload the files, run the installer, and your blog is live in minutes
- Themes and plugins — A growing library of community themes and plugins extends the core without bloat
- Comments and trackbacks — Built-in commenting with spam protection
- Easy administration — A simple admin panel covers posts, pages, categories and settings
- Portable content — Your entire blog is a set of text files — easy to back up, move or version with Git
- Low resource usage — Runs on even the cheapest shared hosting without a database server
- Free and open source — GPL-licensed with an active community around the project
Why Use FlatPress?
FlatPress is the answer to “I just want a blog that works” — no database, no containers, no configuration files to babysit. It is perfect for personal journals, small project blogs and nostalgia-friendly minimalism. Because your content lives in plain files, migrating away or backing up is as simple as copying a folder.
Use Cases
- Personal blogs on budget shared hosting without MySQL support
- Writers who want their entire blog portable and easy to back up
- Anyone who prefers simplicity and longevity over feature-heavy CMS platforms
- Low-power devices like Raspberry Pi acting as home servers
Platform
Web-based (self-hosted) · Linux · macOS · Windows hosting · Any PHP host
Licence
GPL-2.0