: Dead-simple PHP/MySQL blogging tool? I need a really simple solution to build a one-person blog on a shared host: When the user wants to create/edit a blog entry, he calls a PHP script on

@Hamaas447

Some lightweight blogs


Serendipity (wysiwyg, SQL, "embed mode")
Mosquito Blood Mary
(wysiwyg, files)
RumbaXML (wysiwyg, xml-files)
BLOX CMS
(nowysiwyg,SQL)

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@Twilah146

The base installation of WordPress IS dead simple to use.


You only add plugins as you need them.
You can use a plugin to cache all the pages (I can't remember it's possible this is even a standard feature).
Besides caching the pages you'll have "pretty urls" which are important for SEO
You can install a Markdown plugin if you want to edit posts in text mode and disable all the "RichText" UI.


I've setup a WordPress site as a volunteer job for an organization in India whose "non profit only" web hosting was shared and had a 100MB limit. WordPress only used 10% of that space. Besides, with WordPress plugins it was easy to include images from Picasa or Flickr, so that you can save up a lot of space on your own server.

I may have thought along the same lines before I did this job, but then I learned about WordPress and realized how gorgeous the admin was and just how easy it is to "hack" in your layout/css/html. I think you'll save yourself significant time on the long term to go directly with something like WordPress.

As for Posterous I used it during my trip abroad and am now throughly unconvinced. You will often want to make a correction after sending your "post" by email, even if only to fix a small typo. Now you have to use the Posterous rich text editor, so that beats the purpose of sending your post by email. Their website is extremely slow for me. If you're abroad you'll find loading the gazillions of javascript make editing the posts a real pain. Yes, Posterous makes a nice photo gallery for you but then you can do the same very easily with a plugin in WordPress. The default theme on Posterous doesn't even appear to show the archives. On the main page it will load all your recent posts in full, including the photo galleries. Accessing my blog on Posterous was always slow.

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@Michele947

I think the posterous answers is the right one for a dead simple solution.
However if you want a php / mysql solution that you can install on your server

I suggest you try OpenSourceCMS.com What they do is they have installed demo versions of all the CMS that are php/mysql you can try them without you needing to install. and every hour they clear all the experiments and setup a new fresh installation.

This is the category for Blog


Finally I personally prefer Habari over WordPress

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@Fox8124981

If you're looking for something REALLY simple, you can try Posterous. You basically send it an email and it turns the email into a blog post. It can also be configured so that it appears to be hosted at any domain you want.

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@Connie744

Have you looked at Pivot? I'm not sure if it qualifies since it uses flat files (instead of mySQL) and it isn't exactly "dead-simple" but it's worth giving a try.

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@Reiling115

Blosxom.PHP seems to be something like that, except it does not use a database.

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