Freedom251 › Blogging Platforms
Chyrp Lite
by Chyrp Lite
What Chyrp Lite is
Chyrp Lite is a free, lightweight PHP blogging engine for hosting on your own web server. It supports traditional blogs, tumbleblogs, and customizable publishing sites. Feathers provide content types such as text, quotes, links, audio, photos, uploads, and video, while Pages publish separate articles. Writing supports plain text, Markdown, and raw markup, with post scheduling and theme customization through custom code. The package includes six themes and an administration console designed for broad device access, plus semantic markup and ARIA labelling support. Bundled modules add comments with Webmention support, tagging, caching, spam prevention, a sitemap generator, and a Content Security Policy header. A Migration Assistant imports from WordPress, MovableType, TextPattern, and Tumblr. User groups receive different permissions, and posts can be restricted to selected groups. Installation requires downloading a release, uploading it to a server, and running install.php in a browser. Requirements include PHP 8.1 or later, PDO, cURL, Multibyte String, and MySQL 5.7+, SQLite 3+, or PostgreSQL 10+.
Who it suits
Chyrp Lite suits bloggers who can host PHP software on their own server, including typical shared hosting. It is useful for publishing varied content types with extensible themes, modules, and user permissions.
What it does well
- Free plan for self-hosted blogging
- Supports blogs, tumbleblogs, and Pages
- Offers varied Feathers content types
- Imports from four listed blogging systems
- Includes accessibility-oriented semantic markup and ARIA labels
What to know first
- Uploaded files are not protected by default
- Requires PHP 8.1 or later
- Installation requires server access and install.php
- Self-hosted setup is required
Verdict
Chyrp Lite offers a broad, extensible publishing toolkit for self-hosted PHP blogs, with migration and permission features included. Administrators must handle server installation and address the default upload-access limitation.
Facts from Chyrp Lite's own pages
- Accessibility
- The site says its responsive HTML5 uses semantic markup and ARIA labels to support visitors using assistive technologies. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Blog analytics
- Yes · chyrplite.net, 21 Sept 2026
- Bundled capabilities
- Bundled modules include comments with webmention support, a Content Security Policy header, spam prevention, tagging, and a sitemap generator. · chyrplite.net, 11 Oct 2026
- Bundled functionality
- Bundled modules include tagging, comments with Webmention support, caching, a content security policy header, spam prevention, and migration tools for WordPress, MovableType, TextPattern, and Tumblr. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Content types
- Feathers support text, quotes, links, audio, photos, uploads, and video, while Pages can publish content separately from blog posts. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Development
- The project says it has been in development since 2014 and is actively maintained and updated regularly. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2014 · chyrplite.net, 28 Sept 2026
- Free plan
- Yes · chyrplite.net, 21 Sept 2026
- Import integrations
- The bundled Migration Assistant enables importing from WordPress, MovableType, TextPattern, and Tumblr. · chyrplite.net, 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Installation requires downloading the release, uploading it to a web server, and running install.php in a browser. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Intended hosting
- The project says it is suited to a typical shared hosting environment. · chyrplite.net, 11 Oct 2026
- Permissions
- Administrators can assign users to groups with different abilities, and posts can be restricted to specific groups. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Chyrp Lite is an ultra-lightweight blogging engine written in PHP for hosting a blog on your own web server. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Project history
- The site says Chyrp Lite has been in development since 2014 and is actively maintained and updated regularly. · chyrplite.net, 11 Oct 2026
- Publishing
- It supports traditional blogs, tumbleblogs, and customizable web publishing sites with blogging features. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Publishing formats
- It supports traditional blogs, tumbleblogs, and customizable web publishing, with Feathers for different content types and Pages for separate articles. · chyrplite.net, 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Chyrp Lite is a PHP blogging engine for hosting a blog on your own web server. · chyrplite.net, 11 Oct 2026
- Post scheduling
- Yes · chyrplite.net, 21 Sept 2026
- Security controls
- A bundled Content Security Policy module adds a strict Content-Security-Policy header to the blog. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Server requirements
- The documented requirements include PHP 8.1 or later, Multibyte String, PDO, cURL, and MySQL 5.7 or later, SQLite 3 or later, or PostgreSQL 10 or later. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project invites questions and feedback through GitHub Discussions and issue reports. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
- Theme customization
- custom code · chyrplite.net, 21 Sept 2026
- Themes and administration
- The site says it includes six themes and an administration console navigable on a broad range of devices. · chyrplite.net, 11 Oct 2026
- Themes and extensions
- It includes six themes and supports modules, feathers, themes, and translations, with users also able to create their own extensions. · chyrplite.net, 12 Oct 2026
Where Chyrp Lite stands on Freedom251
- Blogging Platforms#84 of 125