Blosxom

Blosxom (pronounced like "blossom") is an Open Source weblogging tool respective simple content management system, initially written by Rael Dornfest and now maintained by a group of developers around the Blosxom Yahoo! Group [1] and The Unofficial Blosxom User Group [2].

The design of Blosxom is quite minimalistic. The entirety of Blosxom is distributed as a single Perl script. All configuration is done by editing this script. All of the weblog entries are stored as normal plain text files, consisting of a headline, optional headers or meta-information (if using certain plugins), and a blank line followed by the post body. New display styles can be added by creating template files called flavours. Blosxom can operate as a CGI script or produce static HTML files. By default, Blosxom supports showing recent posts, doing content categorization, content retrieval by date (and permalinking based on that), and RSS feeds.

Blosxom and many of its derivatives are very popular among people who want to write weblog postings with their favourite text editor instead of using a web-based interface. Nevertheless, there exist plugins for web-based posting to a blosxom weblog, too.

Despite its simplicity, Blosxom is versatile and can be extended with dozens of available plugins [3].

See also

• PyBlosxom - a Python program that originally borrowed Blosxom's design [4]
• Blojsom - a Java program inspired by Blosxom [5]
• Posy - a Perl program inspired by Blosxom [6]
• Blosxonomy - a Ruby program inspired by Blosxom [7]
• Blosxom.PHP - a PHP variant [8]

External links

• Official, but neglected Blosxom home page
• The Unofficial Blosxom User Group
• SourceForge project page of current development
• Blosxom Yahoo! Group