What is Publicate?
Publicate is a free web publishing platform and content management system,
designed in particular for print publications maintaining an online
presence. It's designed to allow multiple users to work on blogs that
integrate with slower-changing print content, and allow for a fast, simple
workflow while doing so.
What are the system requirements?
Publicate runs PHP under MySQL. It's designed and implemented for PHP 4,
and not guaranteed in PHP5, unfortunately, due to its age. It might
work, but it's only been tested with versions <= 4.4.8.
What is Publicate's licensing situation?
As of March 2008, Publicate is available for free, under the MIT license (follow link for full terms). Please feel free to use or modify it, and to send me patches (zmv2102, at, columbia, period, edu) if they're particularly clever or useful.
Where's the documentation?
Ha! Uh, it's coming? Documentation is interspersed throughout the code, but it's very sparse. Here's a quick guide to setting up Publicate.
Download Publicate (2.0.4, 205 KB tarball)
Where'd this come from?
In September 2005, the Blue and White decided to replace its scrappy old website with a modern one that people could actually use and update. A freshman CS student (me) wrote LionShare, a basic system for print publication, which worked out pretty well in the short term, but was fairly hard to use.
When December rolled around, the drive to create the Bwog had started. Over winter break, LionShare was upgraded to support blogging alongside print management, and was rechristened Publicate (due to the existence of a Stanford program called LionShare), over brunch by Avi Zenilman, David Chait, and myself. Publicate 2.0 was released in January of 2006, and has undergone various minor upgrades since then (the current version is 2.0.4 and has been running almost unmodified for about a year at press time).