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Serendipity is a PHP Powered Weblog Application



Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage.

Serendipity provides the following features: WYSIWYG and HTML editing; built-in, powerful media database; multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system; threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories; multiple languages; online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation; plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages; robust spam blocking; one-click upgrading from any version; can be embedded into existing Web pages; native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog).

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Serendipity - a PHP Weblog/Blog software.

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications.
Casual users appreciate the way Serendipity's sophisticated plugin architecture allows you to easily modify both the appearance of your blog and its features. You can install more than120 plugins with just one click, instantly enhancing your blog's functionality. No need to edit code.
Likewise, one click installs any of more than 40 official templates, so your blog looks the way you like it. And Serendipity's SPARTACUS plugin automatically checks the central repository for upgrades and new functionality whenever you check the list.
Advanced users value Serendipity's Smarty templates for combining simplicity with well-documented web standards. It makes minor modifications trivial, but provides the power to unleash your creativity and completely customize your site! Serendipity's outstanding support gives you the confidence to be adventurous, too.


Programmers and other technical users commend Serendipity for its fast, stable, clean PHP code. While beginners can learn from Serendipity, advanced programmers can easily make complex modifications. Serendipity is programmed in PHP, long recognized for its ideal blend of power, simplicity, and speed. Serendipity's BSD licensing ensures that programmers around the world can learn from it and improve it.
Users of other blogging/CMS applications are already switching to Serendipity, thanks to its easy customization and outstanding support. Corporate users are taking advantage of Serendipity's unparalleled flexibility to set up fast, simple CMS sites.
Serendipity's basic features include something for everybody, from the personal blogger to the professional corporate web designer:
  • WYSIWYG and HTML editing
  • Built-in, powerful media database
  • Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system
  • Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories
  • Multiple languages (internationalization)
  • Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation
  • Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages
  • Robust spam blocking
  • One-click upgrading from any version
  • Can be embedded into your existing web pages
  • Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC
  • BSD-style licensing
  • Multiple Database support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)
  • Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase
  • Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...)
Of course, Serendipity has far too many other features to list!
Please take a tour through this webpage and additional ressources on the top of this page to browse the Serendipity World. You can also enlist your own Serendipity-Powered Blog in our Who is using section.
Serendipity - 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 and customizable permalinks 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. Our online repository (Spartacus) supports adding plugins within a few mouseclicks and no manual file up/downloading! Powerful plugins exist for maintaining static page content, displaying galleries, making rss aggregators, ldap authentication, customized template view, multilingual content and much more.
  • Multiple Databases. Serendipity supports MySQL(i), PostgreSQL and SQLlite database backends.
  • Multiple Users. Multiple users can edit and administrate the weblog. A free permission setup can tell which user is allowed to do what.
  • 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. For the advanced user, the full flexibility of the Smarty templating engine allows to change every aspect of the Serendipity look.
  • 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 and 1.0. Supports conditional GET for caching RSS feeds on the client-side. It also supports UTF-8 environments.
  • 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, BBCode and a boast of other markups. 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.
  • Actively maintained by some skilled and open-minded developers who enjoy the touch to the actual user and give support on the Forums as well as listen to every new user suggestion.

Why is Serendipity better than...
First off, choosing the right weblog tool is like choosing your religion. You should be wise in your requirements and where your focus lies.
Serendipity is aimed to make everything possible you ever wish for. It is technically up to par to other well-known weblog scripts like Moveable Type or Wordpress.

Wordpress

Easy plugin integration. No hacks, no problems during upgrades, good compatibility and a central plugin repository. Enhance flexibility without the need to touch any core files.
BSD-licensed, Wordpress is only GPL. That means, you can use Serendipity to power your commercial sites without any issues. Of course, the Serendipity team still likes to get credited where credit is due. ;-)
Supports a well-known and flexible templating system, the Smarty Framework. No PHP knowledge is required, and its a good established standard for templating.
Cool plugins that behave well with the Core, like Multilingual Entries, an aggregatorflickr-like tagging infrastructure. plugin and a
Multiple DB support speaks for itself.
Good PHP code style. Open and responsible release management, covering fast security updates.

Moveable Type

A great plus for Serendipity: BSD-Licensing. PHP instead of PERL, which often is harder to get on shared servers. Also, PHP tends to be better suitable for the web than Perl.
Easy and extensible plugin API.
Online Plugin repository.
Responsive and caring Open Source community instead of the interests of a large company.
Templates

You can browse these categories:
You can also quickjump to specific plugin categories on the left side.

Serendipity - Downloads
 
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There are several ways to download Serendipity. The FULL release contains everything you need, wheras the LITE release only provides the default template and does not have the dummy stub files you need to setup a shared installation (which is for advanced users only). Thus, the LITE release is more lightweight for bandwidth-conservative people. You can easily upgrade a LITE release to a FULL release by simply uploading the FULL release. The core files in both versions are fully identical.

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