Serendipity is a weblog/blog system, implemented with PHP. It is standards
compliant, feature rich and open source (BSD License). Serendipity is constantly
under active development, with a team of talented developers trying to make the
best PHP powered blog on the net.
Features
Simple. Designed for users of all technical levels.
Robust Editing Interface. Featuring an (optional) WSYISWG editor,
easily browsable image manager, extended entry support, entries statistics
and a host of other features.
Threaded comments, Nested categories and posting to multiple
categories are supported.
Anti-Spam / Comment moderation. Through use of a (bundled) plugin
you can enable CAPTCHAs, SURBL-blacklisting, automatted comment moderation
based on the content of a comment. Highly configurable.
Support for XML-RPC Editing. Support for both the Movable Type?
and Blogger XML-RPC APIs.
Dynamic. You don't need to constantly wait while your weblogging
system regenerates pages. Caching is dynamically managed, so you don't need
to worry about it when publishing your weblog. Optional advanced URL
rewriting rules are available.
Trackback and Pingback. Serendipity can accept, send and
autodiscover trackbacks and pingbacks. Of course you can also ping common
weblog services like technorati, blo.gs, blogger, yahoo and blogg.de.
Plugins. A robust plugin system allows you to modify Serendipity
without digging through the core source code. Sidebar plugins allow easy
customization of your blog with dozens of features. Event plugins are a
powerful method of method callbacks, which can hook in into any place in s9y
to make it one of the most flexible APIs available.
Multiple Databases. Serendipity supports MySQL(i), PostgreSQL and
SQLlite database backends.
Multiple Users. Multiple users can edit and administrate the
weblog.
Internationalized. Serendipity is available in English, German,
Danish, French and many more, and adding new translations is a snap.
Skinable. Templates can easily be added by the magic of CSS.
Several templates are included by default. Even visitors of your blog are
able to change the layout on-the-fly if you use the template-dropdown plugin.
Our Development Version (0.8) contains full SMARTY-Templating support for
even more flexibility.
Open Source. Serendipity is licensed under the BSD License.
Standards Compliant. Serendipity supports XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, RSS
0.93, 1.0, and 2.0, Atom 0.3. Supports conditional GET for caching RSS feeds
on the client-side.
Shared library. You can use Serendipity as a single installation
to serve multiple and independent weblogs, but only maintaining a single
codebase.
Easy Upgrading. An easy and automatic upgrader helps you in the
process of upgrading between Serendipity versions (starting with version
0.5).
Flexible Input/Output. Choose between HTML, Textile, Wiki and/or
BBCode markup. For both users and your editors!
PHP-powered to fulfill the needs of ever-growing PHP-enabled
websites and easy integration with support of embedding Serendipity into
your webpage.
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