Best Weblogs for Personal Websites? 66
herrvinny asks: "What is the best weblog script to use on a personal web site? SourceForge and Google show plenty of weblogging systems available, but I just need a simple, powerful solution. Movable Type has been recommended to me, but I've heard of problems with spam, exploits, and comment flooding. I'd like to have a decently good comments section, where visitors can reply to my ramblings and have a fairly large toolset in which to do so, i.e. smilies, some limited HTML (bold, italic, etc). A small Polling plugin would be terrific as well. Which weblogging systems do Slashdot readers use and recommend? Some complexity isn't a problem; I can work in Perl, HTML, C (among other languages) if I need to. Also, what do people think of adapting Slashcode for such purposes?"
MT (Score:4, Informative)
GeekLog (Score:4, Informative)
The advantage of using phpBB is you can easily expand your site into a larger community or something in the future.
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however, what i am really looking for is something more simple and with better date navigation.
i decided to roll my own. it's not complicated and it doesn't allow comments (yet), but i am able to add entries and add photos to entries.
navigating the entry archives is a snap also.
you can check it out here [ventura.nu]
There can be only one ... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:There can be only one ... (Score:1)
Blosxom (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.blosxom.com/ [blosxom.com]
Re:Blosxom (Score:2)
pMachine... (Score:2, Informative)
Give it a try [pmachine.com]
Re:pMachine... (Score:2)
Movable Type 3 is coming (Score:5, Insightful)
The current Movable Type also supports plugins for local Turing tests. 99% of users don't install them because they don't know to look for them, just as over half the MT sites still have the Melody (default user) account still active or the install directory still executable because they don't read the damned instructions.
Re:Movable Type 3 is coming (Score:4, Informative)
If you see a site like this, please let the person running it know before a spammer finds it, because you can use the interface panel to upload files, even cgi. :/
You can find fresh MT sites by searching Google for "powered by movable type" including the quotes, then skipping some random number of thousand hits forward.
Wordpress (Score:4, Informative)
The other nice thing is that they output compliant code.
Re:Wordpress (Score:5, Informative)
I maintain a website where non-technical people (who aren't inclined to learn the basics of HTML) have to be able to post news.
Producing standard-compliant code was a big deal for me when choosing WP.
It's also very easy to setup.
I also like that it isnt a phpnuke-clone.
Re:Wordpress (Score:2)
What about just for posting a simple news list (Score:3, Interesting)
How About Integrating It Into a BB? (Score:3, Interesting)
Has anyone done this? Is there any problem with it that experienced users can warn about?
MovableType (Score:3, Informative)
In regards to comment spam, i have had some problems with it, but a great plugin that i found called mt-bayesian [mt-plugins.org] , which uses a bayesian algorithm to catch spam. on my blog it has worked very well, effectively stopping all the spam that i get and not limiting my users who post to me.
I have not seen any polling plugin, but i do not think it would be to hard to make one (or to find one) The other blogging system that i tried was b2evolution, an open-source php blog. my experience was that it was a lot more work than MT (not just moving files) and that it was oriented much more towards communities - it expected to deal with groups of blogs and interactions between them, unlike MT where each blog is unique. So i would recommend MovableType, but i haven't really tried all the availible options, so i don't know how much my 2c counts.
If you don't need comment support... (Score:3, Informative)
It supports RSS feeds, CSS, Mysql, and Postgresql. It is the easiesy way to put blog support into an already designed webpage IMHO.
I use Greymatter... (Score:4, Informative)
May or may not be the best solution for your situation, but I use Greymatter [noahgrey.com] for the news updates on my personal site [mattjay.net].
From their website:Greymatter is the original opensource weblogging and journal software. With fully-integrated comments, searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customisable output through dozens of templates and variables, multiple author support, and many other features--while having perhaps the simplest installation process and easiest-to-use interface of any program offering this level of functionality--Greymatter permanently raised the bar for weblogging and journaling, and it remains the program of choice for tens of thousands of people around the world.
Good luck!Re:I use Greymatter... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I use Greymatter... (Score:2)
Movable Type can be installed to use the Berkeley DB for an easy no-database-admin option. (MySQL is recommended.)
Depends on what you want to muck around in... (Score:5, Informative)
If you're comfy with Perl and want to hack extensively, MT is the natural choice. You can make it do damned near anything you want without hacking, of course (via plugins), but sometimes it's fun to mess around under the hood. Oh, and you can avoid the comment-spam problems you mentioned via a number of plugins.
If you prefer PHP, I'd say try Mambo (with a nice polling function built in) or Wordpress (which gets props because it produces valid XHTML/CSS and is clean, clean, clean on the admin interface.
Best advice: go to Open Source CMS [opensourcecms.com] and play around. They have default installs of a lot of CMS/blogging systems, and even let you play with the admin interfaces. Very helpful, all in all.
Mandatory plug for my MT-based weblog, here [greg-brooks.com].
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As long as people know that the site limits the choices only to PHP-based blogs. You'd be missing out on a lot of others unless you also check out cmsinfo.org [cmsinfo.org], a better site IMHO.
Since the OP would be interested in perl solutions, perhaps he'd be interested in WebGUI [plainblack.net]. It's an open-source perl-based CMS that can be easily
Try TikiWiki (Score:3, Informative)
I use Blogger (Score:2, Informative)
Roll your own (Score:2)
Re:Roll your own (Score:2)
I always shudder whenever I see someone who claims to be a programmer running a website on Movable Type or something. Okay, maybe they're not a WEB programmer. But still!
Notepad!! (Score:2)
simplicity is king, I use poseiden (Score:2, Interesting)
It does exactly what I need it to, which is maintain an archive and let me people post comments. GPL too.
No longer maintained, but wonko is like that.
PostNuke (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't see how usimg Slash or Scoop would be a problem, but my experiences in installing them can test your patience. Last time I managed to get Slash going was about 5 years ago, and just recently tried Scoop on WinXP without success. Your milage may vary, but since you can do PERL, HTML and C, you will find it a lot easier. I on the otherhand, am not a code money in anyway at all (well a little fortran anyway).
The closest I have come to finding something reasonably mature, easy to install, is PostNuke. They say it is secure. It is php based, but works similar to Slashdot. Here's an example [postnuke.com]. PostNuke itself has no smiles (I can;t stand them myself), but it has a module called PNphpBB which makes it act like phpBB2. PostNuke's own forum [postnuke.com] uses this module, which I find odd, but if it meets their needs, who am I to complain
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Anyway, as for security, a lot of these PHP systems have issues. PHP itself isn't the most secure, but it's not really at fault, I don't think. I think, to be honest, that a lot of these systems are written by guys who aren't coders, and it shows in the code (the one's I've looked at, at least). I messed with Drupal, incidentally, for some contract-work;
NO slashcode on shared hosting (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:NO slashcode on shared hosting (Score:2)
That's pretty much what the documentation tells you, no?
There are hosting services [lottadot.com] that'll do Slash for you.
Write your own (Score:2, Insightful)
HTML (Score:2)
and tags should be enough to do most of your formatting, and the server load your page generates will be orders of magnitude below what large perl based systems would create. As my math teacher always said, KISS.
Let me try that again (Score:2)
Re:Let me try that again (Score:3, Funny)
That's illegal in most states, isn't it?
e107 (Score:2)
Not as well known as some others but a great choice. Sounds like what you are looking for.
Blogado (Score:1)
A friend of mine, Victor Bogado [slashdot.org], just wrote his own blog engine, check it out! [bogado.net].
Here is his blog [bogado.net] (in Brazilian Portuguese), as an example.
Framewerk Weblog (Score:2)
Myself (Score:1)
Slashcode (Score:2)
Just FYI, slashcode is damn near impossible to adapt to anything except a site that does exactly what is done here at slashdot. It's not extensible, and it's not flexible. That's not to say it is bad or is bad code. It's just special purpose. Scoop is the same way. Other site engines that did not grow out of a specific site are generally more adaptable.
Re:Slashcode (Score:2)
Now back them up, because I'm pretty sure I can show you're wrong on just about everything you've stated in your post.
So let's see references to backup your claims please & thankyou.
Re:Slashcode (Score:2, Informative)
I really like the work this guy [gugod.org] (just click through the core styles to select the different CSS stylesheets) has done for Slash in CSS/XHTML [slashcode.com].
PS: I'm running the German Slash Site Symlink [symlink.ch].
Re:Slashcode (Score:2)
Once this is done, it'll be quite easy to re-work a site just by modding it's style sheet.
There's even been talk about doing a slashzen site with it once all the work's done. I'd expect if that happens, you'll see a number of new looks pretty quick
Re:Slashcode (Score:2)
The more c
Re:Slashcode (Score:2)
This has improved, a lot, over the years. There's really not much html left in the src. Nearly all of it's in the templates (especially the data templates)
What the developers need to do, imho, is do the secion code re-work, and then release the thing.
That would help people:
a) develop addons
b) not have to diff their changes all the time to keep up with the every-changing cvs version.
You'r
PHP based solution (Score:2)
WARNING: Shameless Plug (Score:1)
bmachine (Score:1)
Static only? (Score:2)
Basically I want a script to take a big textfile and break it up and spread it over multiple pages along with some spiffy formatting.
Even better, a gnome applet that I can drag url's and text onto. Then it pops up a dialog to allow further editing.
Movable Type spam (Score:2)
iBlog (Score:2)
Livejournal (Score:2)
It's Open Source - download it and give it a go.
That way you can host the journals of your 3000 friends too
Nucleus CMS (Score:1)
Nucleus [nucleuscms.org]
Make your own!!! (Score:2)