About TYPEMILL

TYPEMILL is a small flat file cms created for editors and writers. It provides a author-friendly dashboard and a visual-block-editor for markdown based on vue.js. Use TYPEMILL for manuals, documentations, web-books and similar publications. The website http://typemill.net itself is an example for TYPEMILL.

Features

• Creates a website based on markdown files.
• Provides an author-friendly visual markdown editor (work in progress, based on VUE.js).
• Provides a pure markdown editing mode.
• Markdown supports table of contents (TOC), tables, footnotes, abbreviations and definition lists.
• Create and sort pages with drag & drop in the navigation.
• Configure the system, the themes and the plugins in the dashboard.
• Create and manage users.
• Develop configurable plugins with the Symfony Event Dispatcher.
• Develop configurable themes with TWIG.
• Allows super easy backend and frontend forms with simple YAML-files.
• Ships with a fully responsive standard theme
• Ships with plugins for
  • MathJax and KaTeX.
  • Code highlighting.
  • Matomo/Piwik and Google Analytics.
  • Cookie Consent.

Requirements

• PHP 7+
• Apache server
• mod_rewrite and htaccess

If you run a linux system, then please double check that mod_rewrite and htaccess are active!!!

Installation

Download TYPEMILL from the TYPEMILL website, unzip the files and you are done.

If you are a developer, you can also clone this repository. To do so, open your command line, go to your project folder (e.g. htdocs) and type:

git clone git://github.com/trendschau/typemill.git

The GitHub-version has no vendor-folder, so you have to update and include all libraries and dependencies with composer. To do so, open your command line, go to your TYPEMILL folder and type:

composer update

If you did not use composer before, please go to the composer website and start to learn.

To run TYPEMILL on a live system, simply upload the files to your server

Make Folders Writable.

Make sure that the following folders and all their files are writable (permission 774 recursively):

• cache
• content
• media
• settings

You can use your ftp-software for that.

Setup

Please go to your-typemill-website.com/setup, create an initial user and then setup your system in the author panel.

Login

You can find your login screen under /tm/login or simply go to /setup and you will be redirected to the login-page.

Documentation

You can read the full documentation for writers, for theme developers and for plugin developers on the TYPEMILL website.

Support

This is an open source project. I love it and I spend about 20 hours a week on it (starting in 2017). There is no business model right now, but you can hire me for implementation or simply support this project if you like.

Donate: https://www.paypal.me/typemill

Contribute

Typemill is still in an early stage and contributions are highly welcome. Here are some ideas for non-coder:

• Find bugs and errors (open a new issue on github for it).
• Improve the documentation.
• Describe some missing features and explain, why they are important for other users.
• Write a blog post about typemill.

Some ideas for devs (please fork this repository make your changes and create a pull request):

• Fix a bug.
• Create a nice theme.
• Create a new plugin.
• Improve the CSS-code with BEM or utility-css (e.g. Tailwind) and make it modular.
• Rebuild the theme with the new css-grid feature.
• Improve the accessibility of html and css.
• Help to establish autotests with selenium or cypress.
• Write unit-tests.
• Write an auto-update functionality.

For hints, questions, problems and support, please open up a new issue on GitHub.

Licence

TYPEMILL is published under MIT licence. Please check the licence of the included libraries, too.