Publify
★ 1.9kA self-hosted alternative to Wordpress Com
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Publify is a self-hostable Ruby on Rails publishing platform aimed at people who want to run their own blog and syndicate content from their own site. It combines a classic blogging engine with a...
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Features
- multi-user blogging engine
- short messages with Twitter connection
- Markdown and text filters
- widgets system
- plugin API
- custom themes
- advanced SEO
- multilingual support
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Created
- Oct 23, 2008
- Install Methods
- binarysource
- Requirements
- CRuby (MRI) 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7Ruby on Rails 5.2.xMySQL, PgSQL or SQLite3compatible JavaScript installation for asset compilationImageMagick
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- Ruby
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: no container deployment found
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