Using Habari

Installing and Configuration

• Installing - Read this first, it lists the requirements and verifications to do before installing Habari
• Upgrading - Intended for people using developer releases, these are important notes about upgrading to the latest developer release
• Multi-site Installation - Explains how to run several sites from a single Habari installation
• Importing Content - How to import your old content from WordPress and Serendipity
• Security - Concerned about how secure your site is? Take a look at this page on how to tighten everything up. The page also contains information about reporting security issues

• Desktop Blogging Clients - Find out if your blogging client is compatible with Habari

Extending Habari

• Themes - Additional information about using and creating themes is available
• Plugins - If you'd like to come up with your own plugin, read how to create a plugin

Help

If you have a problem with something, then we have several ways for you to get in touch

• FAQ - Check out this first for the most commonly asked questions
• Habari Forums - Ask general questions - for example installation and customizing
• habarilabs - Russian community Habari Open source blogging platform
• IRC - We have our own IRC channel on Freenode at #habari to ask questions or just have a chat

Contributing to Habari

New to Habari

You've read all the exciting news and want to get involved with the project? Take a look at the Developer Introduction to see how the project and code is structured. It's the best place to begin

Help

• FAQ - Check out this first for the most commonly asked questions
• Habari API - Explore the Habari code through the human-readable phpDocumentor api
• Habari Developers Group - Ask development questions (plugins, themes, core, etc.)
• habarilabs - Habari Russian users Group
• IRC - We have our own IRC channel on Freenode at #habari to ask questions, discuss development or just have a chat

Getting Involved

Habari is a community-driven open source project. Habari is most successful when passionate people share their experience and their expertise to improve it. There are many ways an individual can improve Habari:

• Join a Working Group and contribute ideas
• Help begin to document for both users, and developers
• Install Habari and test
• Provide feedback on your experience within your hosting environment
• Find, reproduce, and document bugs
• Help translating Habari
• Fix bugs in the source

Think you can contribute to Habari? Keep on reading...

Themes and Plugins

If you would like to create, adopt or port a theme or plugin to Habari, then take a look at our guide for creating a theme or for creating a plugin. Remember you can use the resources above to get in touch if you have any issues. Also look at some example plugins.