bloxsom

Blosxom (pronounced “blossom”) is a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind. Simplicity Blogging–and, indeed, any online publishing– should be as simple as typing away in your favourite text editor and hitting Save. Fundamental is Blosxom’s reliance upon the file system, folders and files as its content database. Entries are plain text files like any other. Usability Create, edit, rename, and delete entries on the command-line, via FTP, WebDAV, or anything else you might use to manipulate your files. There’s no import or export; entries are nothing more complex than title on the first line, body being everything thereafter. Interoperability Despite its tiny footprint, Blosxom doesn’t skimp on features, sporting the lion’s share of features one would find in any other Weblog application or full-blown content management and publishing system. Blosxom’s plug-in architecture allows the core of Blosxom to remain small and sleek while providing room for extension and integration into different environments and uses. In fact, this entire site is powered by Blosxom; read all about it in the colophon. Blosxom is simple, straightforward, minimalist Perl affording even the dabbler an opportunity for experimentation and customization.