Open Source Blogging Software

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Open Source Blogging Software

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Can anyone recommend good blogging software that I can put on my server? I've seen a few out there and was just curious to know what you've tried, liked and disliked...?
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I've had custom build software for a couple of years, last year or so i decided to give wordpress a try... It does all i want it to do... (But there may be people with other needs than me...)
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WordPress for me. It is a very powerful piece of software. Not totally customizable just yet, but close. Templating is a but rough, as they built their app to run in a standards compliant markup scheme, but if you can swing CSS driven markup, you are golden. Two examples of mine...

My Personal Blog
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

I've never used Wordpress. I use Serendipity ( http://www.s9y.org ) for my personal blog. I have simple needs, but Serendipity is one of the easiest to manage and upgrade PHP apps I know of. It has tons of additional plugins for almost anything you need and excellent theme support. It's under the New BSD License.

My personal blog under Serendipity 1.1.0 Beta5
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Dude, I am so using that template on a project I am working on for a swim team. Nice...
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Post by matthijs »

Worpress. I've looked at many other systems but so far wordpress is it. Used it on more then 5 sites now, as simple weblogs to complete CMS. One thing I like about it is that it's all PHP. Also the templates are just neat clean (x)html/css with a few php functions to pull in the content.
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Post by jayshields »

Everah wrote:Dude, I am so using that template on a project I am working on for a swim team. Nice...
It's taken from http://www.oswd.org. There's more from the same author on there plus many other nice designs.
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I know. I have all of Andreas' templates (and about 100 others) that I peak through all the time. They are great learning tools.
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