Galaxie Blog is Wickedly Fast!
Galaxie Blog is a wickedly fast, full-featured, free, open-source blog that supports Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion.
Galaxie Blog includes everything needed to create a beautiful blog.
Galaxie Blog is a vast library. While it does not have e-commerce capabilities, it was designed to have more integrated blogging features than other blog platforms. 

Galaxie Blog is a wickedly fast, full-featured, free, open-source blog that supports Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion.
To see Galaxie Blog for Lucee in action, go to https://www.galaxieblog.org.

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Galaxie Blog 4 Feature Summary

  • Free and Open Source
    Galaxie Blog includes everything needed to create a beautiful blog.
    Galaxie Blog is a vast library. While it does not have e-commerce capabilities, it was designed to have more integrated blogging features than other blog platforms. 
    Unlike other blogging platforms, there is no additional upcharge for additional functionality that should have been initially built in.

  • Galaxie Blog is Wickedly Fast
    Out of the box, Galaxie Blog consistently averages above 90% in Google lighthouse scores, even when the page is decked out with large images.¹
    Galaxie Blog for Lucee can often attain a perfect 100% score if you're judicious with your images.

  • Galaxie Blog Has Perfect Google Lighthouse SEO Scores!
    Galaxie Blog is optimized for search engines.
    It has built-in features such as automatically generating meta tags, JSON-LD, SEO-friendly URLs, and sitemaps to help search engines crawl your site effectively.
    Galaxie Blog easily integrates with Google Analytics to analyze traffic and trends.

  • Exceptional Media Support
    Galaxie Blog supports a variety of rich media.
    Galaxie Blog allows users to upload various media for hero images and optimizes them for social media sites.
    You can upload files, images, videos, carousels, galleries, embed Bing Maps to a post, and more.

  • No Code Content Management System (CMS)
    Galaxie Blog provides intuitive visual interfaces with pre-built theme templates, allowing non-technical users to create and manage content effortlessly.
    Users who like to code can switch views to see the backend code using a full-featured code editor.

  • User-Friendly Drag and Drop Editors
    Galaxie Blog uses a highly customized version of TinyMCE that is intuitive and easy to use.
    These editors allow you to craft the perfect post and add various types of rich media using drag-and-drop interfaces.

  • Galaxie Blog is Eminently Themeable
    It has over 30 themed templates; you can edit or develop a new theme within minutes.
    Every post can have its unique theme!

  • Attractive Design
    Posts are laid out in a beautiful card layout on the landing page.
    The most popular posts are available at the top of the page, and you can filter the posts by category.
    Breadcrumbs are automatically created at the top of each page.

  • Stunning Mobile Interface
    Galaxie Blog is a responsive website offering nearly identical functionality for desktop and mobile devices.
    Galaxie Blog was created using a mobile-first design strategy. It allows you to manage the blog and create stunning posts with a tablet or phone.

  • Supports all Modern Databases
    Galaxie Blog uses Hibernate ORM underneath the hood and can support all modern databases!

  • Mature and Proven Platform
    Galaxie Blog has had four major releases since 2018.
    Galaxie Blog was initially based on BlogCFC, which was first released in 2005.

¹Note: Complex media, such as maps, videos, and carousels, will decrease your Lighthouse scores. Gregory's Blog is a bit slower as I am using the full commercial edition of Kendo UI instead of the slimmed-down version of Kendo Core, along with Disqus, which slows down the site. To perform your own testing, go to galaxieblog.org

What's New in Galaxie Blog 4

Lucee Support

Galaxie Blog 4 now works with Lucee 6+. I have tested it with Lucee 6.01.83 through the latest edition, 6.2.0.321.

Galaxie Blog runs about 5% faster with Lucee and occasionally achieves perfect Google Lighthouse scores when using a highly compressed hero image. When running on Lucee, even with these large hero images, Galaxie Blog generally scores around 93-98% Google Lighthouse scores.

Galaxie Blog for Lucee has functionality identical to that of Galaxie Blog running with ColdFusion. The only difference is that you must hardcode the DSN in the application.cfc template. You should also be sure to set the maximum connections setting in Lucee to something lower than the database default of 100 when using one of the flavors of MySql or MariaDB. 

Full CMS Support

Galaxie Blog now has full CMS support. The integrated visual editors, based on TinyMCE, allow users to manage all site content effortlessly. You can choose one or more themes, and each theme may have its unique content. This is unique in the blogging world, and it meets one of my goals to make Galaxie Blog eminently themeable. Of course, a post can also be assigned to a unique theme.

A Full-Featured Code Editor Based on CodeMirror is Implemented

A full-featured code editor based on CodeMirror has been implemented. These editors have syntax highlighting, code hinting, search and replace, code listing, and more. The code editor is available on all visual editors by clicking view—source. 

This functionality typically requires a paid subscription when using other blog software, but it has been incorporated for free, like all of the Galaxie Blog features. 

Page Redirects When Removing Post

Galaxie Blog now supports temporary and permanent redirects to other URLs when removing a post. One of my goals with Galaxie Blog was to allow users to investigate blog functionality without worrying about what would happen if they did something wrong. For example, when a user removes a post, the user is asked to confirm. If the user confirms that they want to remove the post, it will be set to inactive, but the user can always revert the change. To delete a post, a user would have to remove the post and then open the post again to delete the post from the database.

When a post is removed, the user will be prompted to redirect the post to a new URL. Logic has been incorporated to apply a status header with the redirect, informing search engines that the URL has changed. Users can set the header status to notify the search engines whether the redirection is permanent or temporary.

How to Install

Please see https://galaxieblog.org for installation instructions and documentation. The GitHub repo is located at https://github.com/GregoryAlexander77/Galaxie-Blog. If you have any issues, don't hesitate to contact me.