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Serendipity (software)

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Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Unix-like, Windows

Written in
  
PHP

Developer(s)
  
Serendipity Developer Team

Stable release
  
2.0.4 / September 26, 2016; 5 months ago (2016-09-26)

Repository
  
github.com/s9y/Serendipity/

Serendipity is a blog and web-based content management system written in PHP and available under a BSD license. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite database backends, the Smarty template engine, and a plugin architecture for user contributed modifications.

Contents

Serendipity is available through a number of "one-click install" services such as Installatron.

Features

Serendipity's plugin architecture allows users to easily modify both the appearance of the blog and its features.

Serendipity's SPARTACUS plugin automatically checks the central repository for plugins/templates upgrades and new functionality whenever a user checks the list. Users can install more than 120 plugins, instantly enhancing their blogs' functionality.

  • WYSIWYG and HTML editing
  • Built-in, powerful media database, can add media from URL or local file
  • 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
  • Easy drag-and-drop sidebar plugins organization
  • Category-based sub-blogs
  • Static Pages
  • Podcasting
  • RSS planet/aggregator
  • Robust spam blocking
  • Tag support
  • 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, etc.)
  • Search engine-friendly permalink structure
  • TrackBack and Pingback
  • default template for frontend and backend have responsive web design

    • Book

    The first book about Serendipity was published in German by OpenSourcePress: Serendipity - Individuelle Weblogs für Einsteiger und Profis. The publisher donated the book's copyright to the Serendipity project, who has released it under a CC-BY-NC-SA license and made a GitHub repository available online.

    References

    Serendipity (software) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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