Rangitaki Version 1.0

2015-08-24

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Eight months ago I had the idea of a blogging engine. First I planned to write the blogging engine in JavaScript, but in February I learned PHP and I decided, that this is the better language for this project. The main goal of Rangitaki (earlier known as pBlog) was, is and will always be to be as simple to use as possible, but with any possible feature. And I turned out to be possible, especially with the subblogs and the Rangitaki Control Center. Now it is time to release a stable version of what is now called Rangitaki. A blogging engine with focus on simplicity. Easy to install, easy to configure, easy to use.

Rangitaki 1.0 includes the following features:

• Post writing in Markdown with a few keywords for the title, tags, date and the author (all optional)
• Multiple blogs
• A Subpages for each article with a comment box (Disqus; can be disabled)
• Share buttons (FAB; can be disabled)
• Disqus integration (can be disabled)
• Fast and easy configuration
• Google Analytics (optional)
• Twitter and OpenGraph meta tags
• Different themes
• Easy localization (just 3 (!) strings)
• Custom footer
• Navigation drawer (can be disabled)
• Tags
• Set author and date
• Mobile-first
• Rangitaki Control Center (aka RCC; optional, Read the RCC Documentation)
• Online post upload

The development of Rangitaki will continue and I will add many nice features to the blogging engine and to the RCC. So stay tuned.

GitHub Release Notes / Download

Rangitaki Webseite

Rangitaki Documentation