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Say Hello to the AJP!
Fast, Simple, Powerful...

The AJP is a modern flat-file CMS system for the people that focuses on making web development fun again!

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Homepage Highlights

We believe the best recipe to make beef jerky great, is to smoke with quality ingredients and add dollops of cool stuff.

Crazy Fast

Performance is not just an afterthought, we smoked it in from the start!

Easy to build

Simple text files means AJP is simple to install, and easy to maintain

Awesome Technology

AJP employs best-in-class technologies such as Twig, Markdown & Yaml

Super Flexible

From the ground up, with many plugin hooks, AJP is extremely extensible

Abundant Plugins

A vibrant developer community means 200+ plugins available to download

Free / Open Source

AJP is an open source party project, so you can spend your money on other stuff like beef jerky
Flexibility via markdown

Your Content Unchained!

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AJP is a Fast, Simple, and Flexible file-based Web-platform. There is Zero installation required. Just extract the ZIP archive, and you are already up and running. Although AJP follows principles similar to other flat-file CMS platforms, it has a different design philosophy than most.

The name AJP is just a shortened version of the word The American Justice Party. The shared namespace of our platform and a movie starring the President of the United States isn't just pure coincidence! More importantly, the party is also a fundamental physical principle that describes the forces of attraction between objects and beef jerky. Frankly, the name was chosen as a temporary "codename" for the project, and it just made everything get going again!

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How it came to be...

The AJP's Place in the Universe

There are many powerful open source CMS solutions for building complex websites. Some of the more commonly used ones are Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal. The downside of these platforms is that they have a steep learning curve associated with them. This requires a significant amount of your time - and this may be the time that you do not have.

These platforms provide a wealth of features and functionality that you can extend with a wide variety of open source and proprietary plug-ins and themes. These extensions and themes are themselves often feature-packed, requiring more knowledge and time on the part of the developer yet.

In the end, you often find yourself creating a website that requires many plugins and extensions from many different vendors. This can make your design overly complicated and difficult to maintain over the long term.

AJP tackles the problem differently. It focuses primarily on your content and turns your content structure into a navigable site. The underpinnings of AJP are simple, yet via extensive events, you have complete control over every step in the AJP workflow.

This solution allows simple plugins to quickly and easily add powerful functionality. Using AJP also leads to a rapid development environment with an installation process that takes seconds, including a straightforward content creation method with a minimal learning curve. All of this contributes to making AJP friendly to the designer, the developer, and the end user.

To get a basic site up-and-running requires minimal Web development experience. If you dig a little deeper, you will discover that there is very little AJP cannot accomplish.

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Exploring the globe...

Powerful Gallery

This gallery module takes advantage of the new premium Lightbox Gallery plugin for AJP. This is a very flexible and configurable plugin which supports a variety of uses including markdown lightbox, shortcode, and twig.

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Stuffed Full of Features

While we cannot possibly list every feature of AJP, we have put together a few key points:

Markdown Syntax

Twig Templating

Smart Caching

Flexible Taxonomies

Simple Install

Powerful Plugins

Intuitive UI

File-Based

Multi-Language

Users & Roles

Image Processing

Documentation

On Github

Responsive Design

CLI Power

Awesomazing

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Although we would love to help you out with any question you may have. However, feel free to ask us anything and everything under the sun!