# Wren - README.md

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Wren is a web-based, small, static site, blog tool.

It has an API, which can be accessed with command prompt utilities or curl. I'll need to finish creating the command prompt utility, and enable the API to support preview when access has no authentication.

For logging into a Wren site, it uses a no-password login mechanism. The author submits an email address, and the login activation link is emailed to the author. The app uses [MailGun](http://www.mailgun.com/).

Text can be formatted using Markdown/MultiMarkdown and HTML commands.

Here's a test site that uses posts that I created elsewhere in the past:

* <http://wren.soupmode.com>

I'm also using Wren to store updates about my Dad's cancer treatment at:

* <http://dad.soupmode.com>

For search, I will rely on using Google and/or DuckDuckGo.

I need to add support for writing with the JavaScript editor that I have enabled with my other web publishing apps.

To access the markup text version of a post, replace ".html" at the end of the URL with ".txt".

Wren maintains a list of all links in a file called links.json. Wren uses this file to create rss.xml, sitemap.xml, and mft.html. 

mft.html lists the most recent posts in an HTML file that uses microformats. Some Indieweb users prefer to syndicate their content by marking up their HTML files with microformats. Parsers would read a user's homepage to create a feed to be read by someone else, instead of accessing a user's RSS feed.