How did WordPress win?

Re:How did WordPress win? by robryan on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @10:40PM (#2200629)

What do people use these days when they want to self host something a bit more light weight? I have setup a few wordpress installations but really if I wanted something to tinker with I think I would look elsewhere, the code has you trawl though many files at times to make simple changes.

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Re:How did WordPress win? by thecoffman on Thursday February 10, 2011 @10:47AM (#2202263)

Jekyll (http://jekyllrb.com) is a "blog aware static site generator." I use it to power my blog and I love it. You write your layouts in HTML or HAML using the Liquid templating language and then your posts can be in markdown/textile/whatever and you run Jekyll - it generates static HTML files and publishing is just a SCP away.

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Re:How did WordPress win? by nhangen on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @11:44PM (#2200817)

There really isn't anything outside of HTML, or perhaps Squarespace?

I'd love to find something in the middle.

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Re:How did WordPress win? by jamesgeck0 on Thursday February 10, 2011 @09:52AM (#2202074)

Jekyll is a nice way to generate a static HTML blog. A step above that is Frog CMS. Closer to WordPress are Habari and Chyrp, which are still fairly lightweight.

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Re:How did WordPress win? by brennen on Thursday February 10, 2011 @12:39AM (#2200934)

If you're just looking to publish a weblog-like thing, rolling your own remains a viable option...

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