Simple, beautiful publishing.
Create your next blog with a beautifully designed open source blogging platform built for the modern publisher.
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A minimal admin panel that just makes sense. Postleaf has everything you need, but nothing you don’t.
Inline Editing
The first open source platform to feature a true WYSIWYG experience. Create your content on a page, not in a form.
Dynamic Images
Images are optimized and served responsively without any effort from the user. Never worry about images that are “too big” ever again.
Semantic Markup
Styles are defined by your theme, not your users. No more arbitrary fonts and colors. Focus more on content and less on design.
Simple Backups
Backup your data, themes, and uploads. Postleaf generates a single zip file for everything, and simple JSON exports that are easy to work with.
Open Source
Postleaf is a free, open, and decentralized publishing platform. Everyone is welcome to use it and contribute to the project.
Welcome to Postleaf
I'm Cory, the creator of Postleaf, an open source blogging and publishing app built with Node.js. This article will introduce you to the project and [hopefully] convince you to give it a try.
Postleaf was built for the modern publisher. Many of its core values intentionally don't align with those of traditional content management systems. It feels like we've been doing things the same way for so long that it's become impossible to imagine them any other way. Postleaf is bucking those trends by offering a simple, beautiful alternative to publishing.
Cory LaViska
Running Postleaf with Apache
If you want to use Apache instead of Nginx as a reverse proxy, here's a sample config that will get you started.
Make sure to change the highlighted values to match your own domain and the port that Postleaf is running on.
Dot Paper
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper. Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use.
I don't know. I guess it's just faster to grab a pencil and paper to transform my thoughts into a wireframe. I also use it for jotting down notes and todos here and there. In fact, aside from GitHub issues, I don't even have a task manager.
Thoughts on AMP
Some time ago, a user asked about Google AMP support. At the time, I didn't know much about AMP aside from it made pages load faster on mobile devices. It sounded neat.
A couple weeks ago, I decided to dive in and integrate AMP with Postleaf. But the deeper I got, the more I realized exactly how it works and why it's terrible for the web.
JSON Feed
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it.
Since Postleaf was built for the modern publisher, I decided to add support for it in alpha 5. You can check out the relevant commit to see how easy it was to implement.