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A very simple, lightweight, minimalist, free (MIT License) CMS or Website builder tool based on documents on the server (no database) and, this is important, multilingual-ready and multilingual-friendly from the very first moment (no plugins needed). Contents can be written with markdown or hmtl syntax.
The best way to understand and customize miniTRECE is downloading the files from GitHub and play with them.
Ok, some light:
Files .htaccess, index.php and trece/conf.php (conf.php inside a folder named trece) are the important ones. The remaining files are just content or for customization. Let me suggest you to start a fresh installation of miniTRECE using only these three files and then begin building, adding the other files from the .zip, one by one.
Important: in order to use Markdown as markup language, array item markdown must be set to "true" in trece/conf.php line 60, and the Parsedown library (Parsedown.php, ParsedownExtra.php and ParsedownExtraPlugin.php) installed in the trece/lib/parsedown/ folder. All those files are included in the .zip which can be downloaded GitHub.
Folder trece/inc/ is where all the content is stored. For instance: place at trece/inc/ a file named test.php with a simple «Hello» as content and then add test to the url at your browser (something like yourdomain.com/en/test if your site is multilingual or yourdomain.com/test if your site is monolingual). You're done! Demo here: https://mini.trece.io/en/test.
Files trece/inc/html-sample.php (link), trece/inc/markdown-sample.php (link) and trece/inc/demo.php (link) will show you how to build content in both markup languages. In these two files pay special attention to the first 7 lines. What you write there is the content for the meta fields in the header, needed to successfuly share your page in places like Facebook and Twitter. Idea: test these pages in Facebook debugger and Twitter card validator.
Files trece/inc/minimal_header.php, trece/inc/minimal_footer.php and css/minimal_style.php show you the minimal theme, a starting point for developing your own miniTRECE theme.