Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
serendipity is the one based on movable type? yes that looked interesting.

The security hassles with wordpress suck. All the security problems I have ever had have been with wordpress.
No, I don't think it's based on Movable Type. From what I've read on their site, it was written from the ground up by a guy who wasn't happy with blogging/CMS software that existed at the time (it's now a collaborative effort of volunteer programmers).

So far, I only ran into two "bugs" but it was because of my setup. I'm trying Serendipity out on my own computer, a local install of Apache/PHP/MySql, rather than a Unix box at a hosting service. So there was a glitch when Serendipity needed to use ImageMagick (graphics program on virtually all Unix servers) to auto-create thumbnails of pics and my Windows didn't have it. The other problem was the MySQL database I created for Serendipity. By default I use InnoDB tables and Serendipity needs MyISAM tables so it can do fulltext searches on the site. Both were easily corrected and shouldn't occur in a hosting service setup.

So far, I'm sill very impressed with Serendipity. It just feels so much easier to work with than WordPress, without getting into the underlying PHP and HTML, which I do know but hate to tinker with because then everytime there's an upgrade my alterations to any code may get wiped out. I'd rather use something that works out of the box except for bits like the widgets in Serendipty and WP which are designed specifically to run PHP/HTML in a sidebar box, to do something for which no pre-made widget exists.

Kevin