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An extraordinarily simple blogging engine

MKRMKR Registered User regular
edited January 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
Simple on the back and front end. I'd be happiest if it did nothing more than safely write to the DB and generate a plaintext file to be included from a PHP script (like Newspro did when it was still maintained).

Does something like this exist, or do I have to make it myself?

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  • HIGH NOONHIGH NOON Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    www.tumblr.com

    may be what you're looking for.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I need to be able to host this on my own server.

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  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Well, Wordpress basically writes to a database and builds the blog based on a set of PHP files.

    You can host on your own server and installation was pretty painless for me.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I know all the major blogging engines and use/have used them. This is a very specific thing for a very specific need.

    If it doesn't exist, I'll just make it.

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  • BoomShakeBoomShake The Engineer Columbia, MDRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    BarebonesCMS might be light-weight enough for you.

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  • SeanronSeanron GlasgowRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Wordpress :) Always done right by me

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  • corky842corky842 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Is this one simple enough for you?

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Just out of curiosity, what's your hangup on wordpress?

    It's got a five minute install out of the box, most web hosting services have a self installer if you're not hosting it on your own server, and there's about 30,000 free themes out there that look great, or you can code your own in about 20 minutes with little experience just copying various CSS and HTML from other sites you admire.

    It's probably the easiest blogging platform out there with the most customization options and support offerings.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    amateurhour wrote: »
    Just out of curiosity, what's your hangup on wordpress?

    It's got a five minute install out of the box, most web hosting services have a self installer if you're not hosting it on your own server, and there's about 30,000 free themes out there that look great, or you can code your own in about 20 minutes with little experience just copying various CSS and HTML from other sites you admire.

    It's probably the easiest blogging platform out there with the most customization options and support offerings.

    I use wordpress. Wordpress just isn't the right solution for this specific thing.

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  • Jimmy KingJimmy King Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    You could use Django if you want something super simple that will build an admin interface on the back end for you with little to no work. Otherwise, a php or cgi script that spits out plain text it pulls from a db with no admin interface is like 5 minutes of work to whip up yourself.

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