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About Geeklog

Geeklog is an open source application for managing dynamic web content. It is written in PHP and supports MySQL or PostgreSQL as the database backend.

"Out of the box", Geeklog is a CMS, or a blog engine with support for comments, trackbacks, multiple syndication formats, spam protection, and all the other vital features of such a system.

The core Geeklog distribution can easily be extended by the many community developed plugins and other add-ons to radically alter its functionality. Available plugins include forums, image galleries, and many more.

Geeklog v2.2.2

  • Tuesday, September 27 2022 @ 08:17 am EDT
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Announcements

Geeklog v2.2.2 is now available for download and is the recommended version for all production sites. An update package is also available that contains only the files needed to upgrade from Geeklog v2.2.1sr1 to 2.2.2.

This version of Geeklog now fully supports PHP v8.1. The minimum system requirements for installing Geeklog v2.2.2 is:

  • PHP v5.6.4 or higher (PHP 8.1 is supported)
  • MySQL v4.1.2 or higher (MySQL 5 recommended)
  • Postgresql v9.1.7 or later

There was 95 closed issues for this version of Geeklog which resulted in 468 code commits (with 2,342 changed files). The major new features, improvements and fixes in this version include:

  • [Feature] Added Top 10 Likes and Dislikes to User Profile
  • [Feature] Added Likes Control to Static Pages and Polls
  • [Feature] Added Error Limit for submissions that works similar to Speed Limit. Ban plugin v2.0.4 supports this feature
  • [Feature] Geeklog Core emails now use templates (for HTML and plain text) and are sent as HTML by default
  • [Feature] Add an option to anonymize IP addresses and APIs to handle them
  • [Feature] Added redirects in Routing Manager
  • [Feature] reCAPTCHA Plugin support reCAPTCHA v3
  • [Improvement] Support for PHP 8.1
  • [Improvement] Now uses PHPMailer to send emails (replaces abandoned Swiftmailer)
  • [Improvement] Added Persian language and dropped support for languages that have not received new translations in a while
  • [Improvement] Removed unused user settings and cleaned up user tables structure
  • [Improvement] Sitemap is now updated and not completely recreated each time something changes
  • [Bug] Added missing postmode field to Admin User Editor
  • [Bug] After logging out of one user account, cannot log into different user account in the same browser
  • [Bug] Fixed Staticpage Editor Doesn't Remember Some Settings on Reload of Editor
  • [Bug] Handling of Zip Files that have Files with Names not Compatible with the Web Servers OS

... as well as a lot of other improvements and bug fixes. The complete list can be found on Github and in the history text file located in the docs directory of this release.

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Maintenance Plugin 1.1.0 for Geeklog Now Available

  • Saturday, August 15 2026 @ 01:11 am EDT
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Plugins

About ten months after the first release of the Maintenance plugin for Geeklog, a new version is now available.

Maintenance 1.1.0 keeps the plugin lightweight while improving compatibility, security, administration and the way visitors are handled when a Geeklog site is temporarily unavailable.

The plugin provides a simple way to put a Geeklog website into maintenance mode during upgrades, configuration changes, migrations or other administrative work.

Eclipse 1.0.0: A New Modern Theme for Geeklog

  • Wednesday, August 12 2026 @ 01:35 am EDT
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Themes

A new theme is now available for the Geeklog community: Eclipse 1.0.0.

Eclipse is a modern, responsive and customizable theme designed to improve both the public-facing experience of a Geeklog website and the daily work of administrators, editors and moderators.

This first stable release supports Geeklog 2.1.1 through 2.2.2 and PHP 5.6 through PHP 8.1, making it suitable for existing Geeklog installations as well as more recent environments.

The project is available on GitHub and can be installed as a standard Geeklog theme.

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