Blogging with Serendipity
Serendipity is a blog engine that is simple to use and is highly functional without any hassles of programming. It is also known as s9y. Templates or plug-ins can be downloaded and can then be installed directly from the admin screen. To upload themes to your blog, FTP is not needed any more.
Serendipity blogging software is used by a lot of bloggers worldwide. Some of its features are:
• Works on both Linux and Windows – IIS and Apache.
• Easy installation.
• Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
• Good underlying database structure.
• Underlying template system is PHP-Smarty based.
• Fairly intuitive.
• There are lots of plug-ins.
• Ability to assign multiple categories to a blog post and threaded categories.
• The theme system is fairly straight-forward.
Blogging is easy using Serendipity. It is also very secure and when bugs appear they can be patched very quickly.