suggestions: CMS & blog & gallery engine

[Leigh Honeywell]

On 9/18/05, Chris Friedt <chfriedt-0jnyayh6ARPqzrOJbVgLALDks+cytr/Z at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Yep, another one bytes the dust. I think I'm going to join the
> revolution & start writing a blog.
> 
> It's times like these, when I start subtly handing over organizational
> aspects of my life to some (hopefully) transparent technology, that sort
> of make me think i'm becoming more sophisticated. First, it was a
> cellular phone (i vowed for the longest time I'd never get one, but it
> happened), now this. What's next?
> 
> To the point - I was hoping that someone could recommend a good Content
> Management System that's well designed, probably will have continued
> development for a number of years (i.e. it's getting a reasonable amount
> of use by several (hundreds of?) people), is easy to maintain / use,
> easy on the eyes, and somewhat extensible.
> 
> Is there such a system that has a blog, maybe with some sort of
> integrated image gallery? Just a general sort of personal web site
> engine. I don't want it to buy my groceries for me or anything. It would
> preferably be something w/ PHP/MySQL integration that has apache under
> the hood & lots of themes.
> 
> Any suggestions? Much appreciated as always ;-)
> 
> 
> ~/Chris


To my mind, Plone and Drupal are kinda overkill for a blog.  I like
WordPress: http://wordpress.org/

It's hailed as the replacement to Movable Type.  And it's really
simple and snazzy.

-Leigh

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