Known
Open-source PHP platform for social publishing, where one or more users post blog posts and status updates to a site they run.
Known is a publishing platform for groups and individuals, where any number of users post blog posts and status updates to one shared site. It is written in PHP and keeps its content in MySQL, MariaDB or MongoDB, behind a web server with URL rewriting. It installs with Composer or from a release archive, and the project also runs Known as a hosted service at withknown.com.
Worth knowing
By default Known processes events such as Webmention pings and ActivityPub deliveries inside the web request that triggered them. An asynchronous queue moves that work into a background worker, which the README says is required for ActivityPub. The worker must stay running, started by systemd or once a minute by cron.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Per request, Always on, Scheduled9
- Install with
- composer create-project idno/idno, release archive, or git clone with composer install9
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-20: links
idno.co - 2026-10-20: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/idno/idno - 2026-10-20: links, License model
withknown.com/opensource - 2026-10-20: Maintainer
github.com/idno/idno/blob/dev/LICENSE - 2026-10-20: Categories
withknown.com - 2026-10-20: Runtime, Minimum runtime, License
github.com/idno/idno/blob/1.6.4/composer.json - 2026-10-20: Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/idno/idno/releases/latest - 2026-10-20: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/idno/idno/contributors - 2026-10-20: Install with, Runs as
github.com/idno/idno/blob/1.6.4/README.md