Pure Commons apps
To learn more about each of the apps that make up the Pure Commons project, click on a banner below.
PUREBLOG
Pure Blog is a simple PHP based blogging platform, designed from the ground up for personal blogs and the small web. It has everything you need to manage a personal blog, with none of the noise of other services. Some of Pure Blog's features include:
- Flat-file content using Markdown and front matter.
- A clean, distraction-free admin dashboard for writing and organising posts/pages.
- Draft previews so you can check your work before publishing.
- Optional tags and tag archives for grouping related posts.
- Automatic pagination when your post list grows long.
- An RSS feed so readers can follow along however they like.
- Built-in search that helps readers find exactly what they're looking for.
- A settings page that allows you to customise and configure your blog.
PURECOMMENTS
Pure Comments is a simple, self-hosted commenting system that you can add to your personal blog. If you don't want to self-host Pure Comments, I'm also working on a hosted offering at a small cost. Pure Comments features include:
- An easy to use admin dashboard for managing comments.
- Ability to reply to comments as author from admin dashboard.
- Anti-spam mechanism within the comment form.
- Customisable design so comments can look like the rest of your site's design.
- Configurable email notifications via Amazon SES.
PURECSS
Pure CSS, AKA Simple.css is the impetus for all of this. I started Simple.css back in 2022, as I wanted a simple CSS framework to that I could drop into semantic HTML and have it look good. Since then, Simple.css has gained nearly 5,000 stars on GitHub and has somewhat of a cult following. Simple.css includes:
- A good looking sans-serif local font stack.
- Typographic best practices.
- Automagic flipping to dark mode.
- Fully responsive.
- Sensible defaults that format standard HTML elements.
- Super lightweight.