CodewiseBlog is the blog system I wrote to power this site. It's a very robust system, supporting multiple users from the same codebase and database, customizable skins using a powerful skin engine, and everything else you can see here. It's fast, it's easy to run, and it's open source, available under the GNU General Public License.

The project is hosted at GitHub. It requires only PHP, Apache, and MySQL.

    – William R. Fraser

Earlier this week I committed a lot of changes to the CWB subversion repository - everything done to the code since November 30, 2006.

Updates include:

• New URL scheme that doesn't use request variables, but path info instead - access blog entries as blog/article/article_name and such.
• Separate default skins for the site and the control panel
• Handle custom urls and both multi-user modes (subdomain and non-subdomain mode) much better
• Setting a user's status to "closed" applies a different, configurable skin to their page, and removes them from the frontpage
• imageverify automatically cleans out database records older than two days
• more effort to sanitize and entity-escape Unicode characters is made
• added thumbnail image caching for the frontpage

Most of these changes were committed in svn revision 416.

Because of all these changes, the installer script probably doesn't work (I haven't tried it yet though), and the skin documentation is getting out of date. I'll fix both of these when I have time. However, neither of these are very high priority, as manual install is still pretty easy, and the old documentation is still valid - nothing has been removed, things have only been added.

So much has changed now, if anyone wants to install CodewiseBlog on their site, send me an email and I'll help you install the current dev version (follow the link at the end for my contact info). The last release is badly out of date now, and I do not recommend using it. I'm not planning on doing another release for a while, but if there's enough interest, I'll fix the installer and documentation and package a proper release now.

_WRF