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Welcome to Blogofile.

  • Definition: Blogophile --
    A person who is fond of or obsessed with blogs or blogging.
  • Definition: Blogofile --
    A static file blog engine/compiler, inspired by Jekyll.

Blogofile is a simple blog engine that requires no database and no special hosting environment. You customize a set of templates with Mako, create posts in a markup language of your choice (see Post Content) and Blogofile renders your entire blog as static HTML and Atom/RSS feeds which you can then upload to any old web server you like.

Why you should use Blogofile

  • Blogofile is free open-source software, released under a non-enforced MIT license.
  • Blogofile is fast, the server doesn't need to do any database lookups nor any template rendering.
  • Blogofile is inexpensive to host. Any web server can host a Blogofile blog.
  • Blogofile is modern, supporting all the common blogging features:
    • Categories and Tags
    • Comments, Trackbacks, and Social Networking mentions (Twitter, Reddit, FriendFeed etc), all with effective spam filtering using Disqus.
    • RSS and Atom feeds, one for all your posts, as well as one per category.
    • Syntax highlighting for source code listings.
    • Ability to create or share your own plugins in your own userspace (see filters and controllers).
  • Blogofile is secure, there's nothing executable on the server.
  • Blogofile works offline, with a built-in webserver you can work on your site from anywhere.
  • Blogofile is file based, so you can edit it with your favorite text editor, not some crappy web interface.
  • Seamless Git Integration. Publish to your blog with a simple "git push". This also makes backups dirt simple.

Get Blogofile

Blogofile is still under development, and should be considered beta software at the moment, but should be usable even before the 1.0 release.

Make sure you have Python and Setuptools installed. On Ubuntu you just need to run: 

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
Download and install Blogofile with: 
sudo easy_install Blogofile
Alternatively, here's the latest "stable" zipped release: You can also get the latest development source from github: 
git clone git://github.com/EnigmaCurry/blogofile.git