Wheatblog is blogware: it’s a web-based content management system for maintaining online blogs, journals, news pages, and about anything else you can think of writing down. It allows reader interaction with a comment system, and generates valid RSS 2.0 feeds. It is powered by PHP and is compatible with the MySQL and SQLite database systems.
Here are some of Wheatblog’s features:
- Simple, straightforward installation and use.
- All pages are dynamically created using PHP and a database.
- Posts can be assigned to categories and viewed by category or title.
- Permanent URL’s, or permalinks, provide a unique, unchanging link to each post, and are readily indexed by search engines.
- All posts allow reader comments, but can be locked by the administrator at any time.
- A post can be marked visible or hidden at any time, allowing multiple revisions before publishing.
- All post dates are arbitrary (not based on timestamps) and therefore completely controllable by the author.
- Generates valid, well-formed RSS 2.0 feeds of your visible posts for effortless syndication.
- Valid XHTML makes customization as easy as modifying one CSS file.
- Best of all, it’s open source! You can hack it to suit your needs!
Why Wheatblog?
The “Blogosphere”, once considered a fad, now seems poised to rewrite the rules of modern journalism, political speech and intellectual discourse in ways not even imagined a decade ago. But there is a problem.
A multitude of bloggers are now entering the fray, and the solutions available are becoming more and more profit-driven and watered down. New all-in-one blogging services are popping up everywhere — and writers, engineers, technologists and those with something important to say are straining against the limitations of a forum that is overrun by gimmicky link schemes and half-baked attempts to stand out among the crowd.
Blogs are everywhere, and everyone seems to have a blog. While casual users may find the prepackaged feel of weblogging services like Blogger’s Blogspot© sufficient, the more advanced often feel limited by a centralized, monolithic content management system that offers little in the way of customization and control.
Audience
Wheatblog was born out of a desire to provide an alternative to such services, and provide a platform for serious-minded and web-savvy users to expand control over their content. All of wB’s markup is valid XHTML 1.0; all style information is housed in a completely independent Cascading Style Sheet. This powerful web design paradigm provides maximum flexibility, and the look, feel and content of your blog is limited only by your creativity.
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