A user-friendly, lighweight CMS that helps you create beautiful, fast, and simple content cards. Easily embed them into your website and keep your key information up-to-date across multiple pages at once. Implementing and using Xarta is quick and easy!
See it in actionXarta is a Ghost-based mini CMS that allows you to create content cards to embed in your website and keep crucial context always up-to-date in multiple pages at once. It is designed to be simple to implement and easy use. You can pair it with WordPress or any other content management system that allows you to embed HTML code.
Here is an example of an embed code (try it on JS Bin):
<div id="xarta-card-container-6802591c5413800064c0d198" style="width:100%; max-width:700px">
<script src="https://xarta.dev/xarta/api/embed-script/6802591c5413800064c0d198">
Using CSS in your Xarta theme or even in cards individually, you can customize the look and feel of your content. You can change colors, fonts, and other styles to match your website's design. This flexibility allows you to create a smooth, integrated experience for your readers, making the card feel like a natural part of your content rather than an embedded element.
Here is an example style code:
.xarta-title{color:red !important;font-family:'Winky Rough',serif}
.xarta-excerpt{font-family: Garamond !important; color: blue !important}
.xarta-footer{display:none}
Xarta allows you to create content cards that can be embedded in multiple pages. This means that if you need to update a piece of information, you can do it in one place, and it will automatically update across all the pages where the card is embedded. This feature is particularly useful for news organizations and other content-heavy websites that need to keep their information current without having to manually update each page.
Xarta is a versatile tool designed to cater to a diverse audience, offering support for multiple languages. Currently, it operates in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
This project was created under the umbrella of Volt Data Lab, a journalism-support organization based in Brazil, which also runs Núcleo Jornalismo, a news website that covers technology.
We believe that Xarta can help improve the way we share information online and will save a ton of effort and time for you and your team.
Xarta is an open-source project. You can use it for free and also modify it to suit your needs. The code is available on GitHub, and we welcome contributions from the community.
You can install Xarta in your own servers or use our easy, one-click app on Digital Ocean that automatically creates the setup for you. It is designed to be simple and straightforward, so you can start using it right away without any complicated installation.
RESOURCE AVAILABLE SOON ON: Digital Ocean, Caprover, Heroku, Portainer, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
Volt Data Lab can help you set up Xarta on your own servers for a small fee. We can also help you with the design and implementation of your content cards. If you are interested in this service, please reach out to our team and we will get back to you.
Absolutely! Xarta is designed to be compatible with any content management system that allows you to embed HTML code. You can easily integrate Xarta with WordPress or any other platform using an embed code.
No, the whole point of Xarta is to be completely free for people to use. It is enterely open source and you can also host it on your own servers without even asking for permission. If you want our team to set it up for you, we charge a small setup fee, send us an email at [email protected]
You don't have to! But if you are looking for a simple, user-friendly mini CMS that allows you to create beautiful, fast, and simple content cards, Xarta is a great option. It helps you keep your key information up-to-date across multiple pages at once, making it easier to manage your content.
Xarta is built on top of Ghost, a popular open-source content management system. We used their content API to build our own system using Next.js. The project is open-source, so you can check the code on GitHub.
The Xarta was developed by Núcleo Jornalismo as part of the Codesinfo program, a program managed by Projor and financed by the Google News Initiative. The grant received for the development of this tool was R$97,400.00 (USD17,000).
Yes, go crazy with it.