When it comes to blogging software, you're not starved for choice. However, despite this choice and how feature-rich modern blogging software is, are the available options necessarily the right choice?

Sure, software such as WordPress, Ghost, Gatsby, and Wix are very feature-rich — and their UIs are often very smooth. But do you want the hassle of installing, configuring, and securing them on top of writing your blog content? What's more, can you justify the budget that some blogging software requires?

Maybe, all you want to do is to write your site's content using your preferred editor, using a simple format designed for writing for the web, Markdown, rather than through a user interface.

If that’s the case, then in this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a blog that draws its content from Markdown files. The blog uses the Slim Framework (version 4), the Standard PHP …