Recommend an engine for a cozy blog :-)

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Recommend a PHP5 engine for a personal blog for yourself. The main thing is to be comfortable :-) I don’t want mega-combines like WordPress, I want all the code and the base scheme to be easy to grasp in my mind, very quickly understanding and finishing it for myself. It is desirable that the code be as modern and high-quality as possible, so that it would be pleasant to poke around with it. Maybe you know this one. I thought about writing my own from scratch, but somehow it’s lazy to take it ...

And one more thing :-) At first I was embarrassed to extend the list of wishlists with this, hoping that I would get a recommendation for something very simple, which I would add myself. But since such a booze has gone and people recommend serious, fully functional things, I will add: multilingualism. so that you can write texts in different languages ​​for the same post, and if the user chose, say, the English language of the site, then only those posts for which the English version is registered would be shown to him (at the same time, I seriously want different language versions of the post to be hard linked rather than doing it manually by individual blogs).

Answer 1

Understanding mega-combines such as WP and Drupal is faster than finishing something simple ;)
Seriously: a well-thought-out architecture and a large number of plugins/modules allow you to quickly finish your needs.

Answer 2

What's so hard about WP? Nothing in total 11 simple tables, where only the categories represent at least some complexity.
An extremely trivial topic, and the core is simple.
Hooks make it a “Magecombine”, which you can always look at in the code.

Answer 3

take WordPress purely for a blog, if you want a blog + your own lunar module, then Drupal.

Answer 4

The second suggestion is to take a framework that normally supports multilingualism and write it yourself. I can recommend symfony 1.4 (> PHP 5.2.4, stable for a long time, many docks and guides, including Russian-language docs) and symfony2 (> PHP 5.3.2, in active development, intensive use of 5.3 features, stable API has just begun to take shape , there are few docks, I saw only a few reviews in Russian, mostly on Habré) - it definitely won’t be boring :)

Answer 5

MaxSite max-3000.com/ see

Answer 6

Maybe E2 will like it? blogengine.com/

Answer 7

textpattern

Answer 8

At the expense of multilingualism for WP, there is a very convenient WPML module. With WP, you can understand the API and easily finish it for yourself.

Answer 9

Wordpress is beyond competition. Pay attention to what the largest and most visited world blogs are built on.

Answer 10

WordPress is clear. They didn’t come up with anything better than him for blogs - a ton of documentation, hundreds of thousands of ready-made plugins for anything, themes and everything.

Answer 11

I just raised this topic mpak666.livejournal.com/569457.html I also didn’t find anything according to my wishes, can anyone advise something sensible?

Answer 12

I am also for Wordpress. It is the easiest to set up and the easiest to customize for the client. I built both blogs and entire sites on WP. Chose from a ton of other engines and always came back to WP.

Answer 13

writing notes in several languages ​​is no longer a cozy blog, but a serious occupation. It is unlikely that anyone will bother creating multilingualism in a simple blog.