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Google just warned me about a stories.scripting.com blog post from 2007. Perfectly safe archive. Want to know how we started doing code distribution via RSS? Google thinks it's a dangerous site. I'm getting so angry at their condescension. Not a good look for a tech giant trying to convince people that their AI model is better than the others. They don't care about the truth or being honest, or protecting unique resources, or the history of the medium they helped build. Google, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed. I'm going to make sure that part is easy to find. (BTW, the irony of Google's blockage, the page it warns you about is a freaking 404. That's the real enemy of historic sites. Linkrot. Wouldn't be cool if instead of tearing down the web they helped keep it running? The people running these companies are children. They positioning themselves with hate, what do you think comes right back to them.)#

When I built Pure Blog, I wanted it to be different from the rest of the crowd. The whole point of it was to have just enough features, and no fluff. So to me a more brutalist/utilitarian UI made sense.

The likes of Grav, WordPress, Ghost, and Bludit all have similar interfaces. White and grey with blues, purples, and greens. Rounded corners etc. All very iOS-ish. All very...safe. I wanted Pure Blog to stand out from the crowd and have its own identity, and honestly, I'm thrilled with the results.

Pssst. If you haven't tried Pure Blog yet, check out the demo site.

But what I like may not be what you like, which is why I built Pure Blog to be very customisable from the start. You can change the fonts from mono, to sans, or serif with the click of a button, or you can change the look of the entire UI if you know some CSS.

And this is what I said to the person who emailed me saying it was ugly. But they came back with...

Great. Do you have any examples?

I didn't! So I decided to create some examples and show them here so you can see just how customisable Pure Blog really is. I know other CMSs can customise their UI too, but unlike them, Pure Blog needs no plugins, hacks, or bullshit. This can all be done with standard Pure Blog right out of the box.

So here are some examples of the Pure Blog admin UI where all I've added is custom CSS within settings.

Cupertino

How about bringing a macOS / iOS vibe to your Pure Blog site?

Purely Ghost

Or maybe you like the super clean lines of the Ghost UI? Well, you can have something similar to that too if you like:

Pure Press

Are you a WordPress purist who really wants to be as faithful as possible to their design? Well guess what - you can have that too!

Windows 4 lyfe

Maybe you're a lover of anything Bill Gates touches. If so, a Windows theme might be more your thing.

How about Windows 11?

Or Windows XP?

Or if you're really old, Windows 95

Terminal FTW

Maybe all this GUI stuff isn't your jam? Do you yearn for the days of yore when the interface to a computer was terminal-only with a monochrome CRT monitor?

Well, Pure Blog can do that too:

Green – the connoisseur's terminal.

Or orange, the truly old-school terminal.

Your imagination is the limit

I think these screenshots show what Pure Blog is capable of. Your imagination really is the limit. So just because you think the default look of Pure Blog is ugly, don't fret - you can easily change it to be whatever you want it to be.

If you're interested in grabbing any of these themes for your Pure Blog installation, all the CSS is available over on the docs site.

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