BaniPress — a blog from a spreadsheet, no CMS

THE ONE RULE THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING ELSE. The Sheet is truth. The language pages are a cache.

This blog is a spreadsheet. One row per post, one column per language, a build script, and a static site any host can serve. No database, no plugin, no login page to hack. The pages you are reading were made this way.

WRITE A POST. Open the Sheet on your phone. Add a row: Date, Headline, Body, an optional picture, a category. Set Published to Y; put a future moment in Publish At if you like. That's the whole CMS.

LANGUAGES. You only ever write in English. Five generate themselves — Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Turkish — chosen for markets where English is a real barrier, not for size. Every translated page is labelled machine-translated in its own language.

WHO'S READING. A counter that counts server-side, sees crawlers by name, records the reader's preferred language, and throws the IP away. No cookie, no address stored.

Release: the universal version is packaged; a how-to is on the way.