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Roadmap of my blogging system

Filed under: My software by Hari
Posted on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 14:30 IST (last updated: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 @ 14:30 IST)

I've been planning to write my own blog software using PHP 5 and SQLite for a while now, but it's been on the backburner as I've not even had time to update this blog recently.

However, I've been working on the idea and have come up with a "road-map" of ideas to work on. The base idea is to keep it clean, non-bloated and with only the features I will require. The code, of course, will be released under GNU/GPL when I'm done.

So here's a list of ideas/features in no particular order for my own reference as well as for those who might be interested:

In other words, my blog software will have none of the frills found in other blog systems like multi-language support, AJAX, WYSIWYG editors, tagging, file/image uploads (which are insecure anyway), pinging, pingbacks, trackbacks, static pages, dashboard statistics, multiple skins/themes (most of the visual aspects of a website can be edited within the CSS file 90% of the time), multiple users with different permission levels, user registration (used mostly by spammers anyway), drag-and-drop widgets, calendar displays, etc.

In other words, this blog software will be tailored to the blogger who knows a bit of HTML and PHP, is willing to edit CSS and configuration files, knows a bit about FTP or SSH for file transfer and needs a no-frills, fully functional blogging system.

2 comment(s)

  1. All the best to you... One fine day Google may acquire your platform

    Comment by Shrinidhi Hande (visitor) on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 @ 16:54 IST #
  2. Thanks, Shrinidhi! :)

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 @ 17:03 IST #

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