ULTRV

Blogging platform features, and the ones we left out

A clean editor, eighty-four themes, your own domain, a terminal client, an API, feeds in three formats. Here's the whole tour.

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Everything below is included on every account. Custom domains are not an upgrade, themes are not a marketplace, and feeds are not a plugin — see what the paid plan actually adds if you want the short version first.

If you are weighing ULTRV against something else, the platform comparisons are more useful than a feature list, and blogs already running on ULTRV are more useful than either. For why the whole thing is shaped this way, there is a longer piece on the small web.

Writing

The part you actually spend your time in.

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    Rich text editor

    A clean, distraction-free writing experience. Formatting, links, images, code blocks — toggle to source view anytime. Writing and formatting posts →
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    Drafts & publishing

    Save drafts, publish when ready, unpublish anytime. You're always in control of what's live.
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    More than posts

    Typed pages with their own URLs. Photo albums, recipe collections, bookshelves, guestbooks, now pages — the things your blog actually needs.
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    Static pages

    Standalone pages for About, Contact, anything else. Reorder by drag-and-drop. Appear in nav automatically. Pages and navigation →
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    Tags & featured nav

    Organize posts with tags. Pin your most important ones to the header so readers find what they're looking for.

Publishing & domains

Where your writing lives, and what it looks like when it gets there.

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    Custom domains

    Point a CNAME or A record at your blog. SSL is provisioned automatically. Or just use a free .ultrv.blog subdomain. Connecting a custom domain →
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    Eighty-four themes

    Clean minimalist layouts, warm earthy tones, dark editor themes, retro nostalgia, print and graphic-design movements. Preview any theme live before applying. Browse the theme gallery →
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    Multiple blogs

    Run multiple blogs from one account. Each gets its own subdomain, theme, settings, posts, and pages.
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    Import from anywhere

    Move in from WordPress, Substack, Ghost, Medium, or bulk Markdown. Pull straight from a live site over the API, or upload an export. Re-runs don’t duplicate content, and one click rolls any import back. Import guides for each platform →

Feeds, API & terminal

The ways in and out that do not involve a browser tab.

Trust & maintenance

What runs in the background, and what deliberately doesn't.

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    No trackers, no ads

    No Google Analytics, no pixels, no third-party scripts. Just your words, your images, your domain. What we store, and what we don’t →
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    Secure by default

    SSL on every blog. Two-factor authentication built in from day one. Locked down out of the box.
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    Fully maintained — zero upkeep

    No servers to manage. No software to update. No security patches to worry about. We handle hosting, backups, SSL, and infrastructure. You write — we keep the lights on. Exporting everything you wrote →
  • Line drawing of a browser window headed Page Audit with four circled scores of 100 for performance, SEO, accessibility and best practices, above the words fast · indexable · clean.

    SEO out of the box

    Custom meta titles, descriptions, social images. Canonical URLs, OpenGraph tags, and Twitter Cards on every page.
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    Blazing fast

    Every page optimized for speed. Loads instantly on phone, tablet, or desktop. No bloat, no plugins slowing things down.
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