SimplePHPBlog is a flat file (it does not require database setup) blog system that is super easy to install - just copy it in, set the config, content and images folder to read/write and go to the page where the install wizard will be presented.

For those looking for help and support - use the forums. The developers don’t have time to answer every email that crosses their systems. There are other users moderating the forums that are quite knowledgeable and helpful. Additionally - answers that help one person are also available to everyone. DO NOT use the Contact Me link for support. You will not get an answer. Period. The forums require sign-ups - once you signup there - send us an email via the Contact Me form with your account name so we can activate the account and cut out spam entirely.

Other Language Files, Manuals and Language Guides are found on Sourceforge in the same place as the main download. There are nightly builds and if you are knowledgeable in CVS, you can also get them there - use at your own risk.

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Serendipity - a PHP Weblog/Blog software

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications.

Casual users appreciate the way Serendipity’s sophisticated plugin architecture allows you to easily modify both the appearance of your blog and its features. You can install more than120 plugins with just one click, instantly enhancing your blog’s functionality. No need to edit code!

Likewise, one click installs any of more than 40 official templates, so your blog looks the way you like it. And Serendipity’s SPARTACUS plugin automatically checks the central repository for upgrades and new functionality whenever you check the list.

Advanced users value Serendipity’s Smarty templates for combining simplicity with well-documented web standards. It makes minor modifications trivial, but provides the power to unleash your creativity and completely customize your site! Serendipity’s outstanding support gives you the confidence to be adventurous, too.

Programmers and other technical users commend Serendipity for its fast, stable, clean PHP code. While beginners can learn from Serendipity, advanced programmers can easily make complex modifications. Serendipity is programmed in PHP, long recognized for its ideal blend of power, simplicity, and speed. Serendipity’s BSD licensing ensures that programmers around the world can learn from it and improve it.

Users of other blogging/CMS applications are already switching to Serendipity, thanks to its easy customization and outstanding support. Corporate users are taking advantage of Serendipity’s unparalleled flexibility to set up fast, simple CMS sites.

Serendipity’s basic features include something for everybody, from the personal blogger to the professional corporate web designer:

· WYSIWYG and HTML editing

· Built-in, powerful media database

· Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system

· Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories

· Multiple languages (internationalization)

· Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation

· Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages

· Robust spam blocking

· One-click upgrading from any version

· Can be embedded into your existing web pages

· Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC

· BSD-style licensing

· Multiple Database support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)

· Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase

· Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, …)

Of course, Serendipity has far too many other features to list!

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LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation.

Project Statement

The goal of the LifeType project is to create a stable multi-user and multi-blogging platform, to strengthen the concept of communities around blogs.

History

The LifeType project started in February 2003 when its leader, Oscar Renalias, needed a set of dynamic scripts for his personal web page. Even though he did not know about the idea of weblogs back then, the outcome of the first iteration of the project already resembled one. A few weeks later Francesc, another one of the founding members, suggested that developing a blog with support for multiple users and blogs could be a better idea, and so pLog 0.1 was released on the 2nd of September 2003 featuring most of the features that are still part of the core features nowadays: multi-user and multi-blog from the ground up, template engine, localizable and extensible via plugins.

pLog 0.2 was released on the 9th of November, sporting new search engine-friendly URLS, speed improvements, a better plugin interface and changes in the administration interface. At this point is where pLog started to gather some interest from the community and when pLog 0.3 was released later on March 2004, it was warmly received by the community: it still is the most downloaded pLog/LifeType release ever. pLog 0.3 introduced the concept of “resources” and the integration of media files with articles, time differences, an integrated RSS parser and a Bayesian anti spam filter.

LifeType 1.0 was released in April 2005, with LifeType 1.0.6 being the last maintenance release of the 1.0.x branch in June 2006. LifeType 1.0 marked the beginning of a new era for LifeType, with a modernized user interface and plenty of exciting features for bloggers. Lifetype 1.2 was released on the 20th of March 2007 and brought a new fine-grained permission framework, performance improvements when serving files and plenty of other performance improvements. The current bugfix release of the 1.2 branch is LifeType 1.2.7, released in April 2008.

Relationship between LifeType and pLog

Amazon.com has been holding the “plog” trademark much longer than the project has been around, so the project was kindly asked to change its name.

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