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

Today I backported the new SkinVoodo2 code from Codewise Manager to the CodewiseBlog Multi code.

The difference is that the new skin engine is a full-featured parser with support for much more advanced features than the old regex-based rewriter code. It's been modified so that all old CWB skins should continue to work exactly as before.

Also coming with the new code is the Safe Eval implementation that makes sure users' skins can't execute arbitrary code on the server. Unfortunately, this bit has slowed down page rendering a bit (~180ms up from ~75ms on this server), but it's a safety measure, and the slowdown will get smaller as I optimize it.

Of course, these new shiny bits of code are still a little experimental, so report any issues you may have.