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If Code is Poetry then Wordpress is some 15 year old's notebook scribblings on angst, Twilight and Dashboard Confessional.

If you're looking for alternatives that don't have gaping security issues with seemingly every release, check out Serendipity.

Serendipity supports Postgres and has for a long time (though I can't say for certain that it did from birth). Which is why I use it. As with other projects of this nature (Drupal comes to mind), though the core supports Postgres quite well, 3rd party plugins sometimes fall into MySQL-only habits, but that hasn't been too problematic for me.

Frankly, in this day and age, I'm leery of projects that are written to MySQL specifically. To me, it smacks of amateurdom: if you don't know enough to use an abstraction layer (of which there are jillions of options), what does that say about the quality of your code as a whole?

Some of us have even got fed up with WP and moved on to Serendipity.

It appears that the article is mistaken, and WordPress doesn't actually send stuff like $_SERVER. You might want to go ahead and switch.

But, if you want a blog with a central, auto-updating plugin repository, try Serendipity. It uses Smarty for its templates, and has a very involved developer base. It's also light, fast, and security-conscious. It's largely compatible with Movable Type, too.

For the record, its auto-update feature downloads the list of available plugins, then lets the local installation decide what needs to be updated. No private information required.

Have you tried serendipity? http://www.s9y.org/ Works well for me.

I would suggest serendipity for the blogging software itself with the geshi plugin that is available through it's plugin interface. Though I've never used the plugin I've heard it works well and I find the software (serendipity) to be highly configurable and just all around excellent.

I've started to use geshi and find it to be very nice. There is a plugin available for serendipity and probably for a number of other blog apps. One problem I've noted though, is that geshi can be very slow. Sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds to render a large ugly html file. On the other hand, I've noticed sometimes it only takes a few seconds. If you store the marked up code in the blog app instead of re-marking it up for every request, the delay probably won't be a major concern.

I am using http://www.s9y.org/ at my Positive News blog at http://www.tiouw.com/serendipity/ (in Dutch so you probably cant read it). And I like it a lot. I thought it was more famous though. So anyone else using this?

Works great and supports Postgreqsl if you're of the frame of mind that MySQL have signed up with the devil.

Get the software at

http://www.s9y.org/

And see an example at

http://www.benarty.co.uk/blog/

Wow! That is a great site.

I already made my choice based on the hardware and software that I had available and I went with Serendipity. It works well for me and it is very easy to use and administer. I did have some trouble with their HTML Nuggets (Custom HTML inside their sections) not displaying the Google search window properly, but I was able to modify some HTML to get around it.

For a simple blog, it works great.

I've been using Serendipity for almost a year and a half, and I love it. I first started using it because it was the only F/OSS blog software that supported Postgres (I refuse to install MySQL on my server), but I quickly grew to love it.

Serendipity? It even has a shiny "HTMLarea" option which is WYSIWYG, which is even more 'humane' than this Textile doohickey.

From the s9y forums:

http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2034

Save yourself the hassle of doing a complete upgrade by simply downloading the new version an only copying the files from bundled-libs/XML/*

A combination of blog (time based), wiki (document based) covers most ground for team communication. We use Serendipity and Mediawiki at this site.

I have tried out most of those and, of those you list, my favorite was WordPress. I always avoided MT because it is Perl based and I am only useful with PHP.

However, I found one that was even better than WordPress... Serendipity. This is an oddly unkown piece of blog software that is simple to set up (uses the same MySQL and PHP setups that most blogs use) simply rocks and is, of course, free.

Also, for an objective look at a huge range of free blog and portal software, check out Open Source CMS.

If you are looking for a standards compliant, feature rich, and open source weblog solution written in PHP have a look at Serendipity.

Serendipity.

Written in PHP. Uses MySQL. Lean. Mean. Flexible. Extremely nice plugin API. GPL.

Have a look at Serendipity, a PHP+MySQL based blogging engine. Lean, clean and very useable. Extensible with a plugin architecture.