• BashBlog is a simple blog system in 500 lines of bash with support for RSS, automatic validation, and more.
• Chyrp "is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is powered by PHP and has very powerful theme and extension engines, so you can personalize it however you want."
• FlatPress "is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to work."
• Jekyll "is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby" (via Jalada)
• NanoBlogger (first covered over 5 years ago; still under active development) "is a small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content."
• Ode is "a single Perl script, with content generated from plain text files, and look/layout determined by standard (X)HTML and CSS"
• PluXml "is a script to create a site or a blog, no need for knowledge in programming nor d' need; a database on its lodging, a traditional environment php is enough for him. PluXml wants to be light and easy d' use thanks to an interface d' simple administration and the storage of your writings in easily transportable XML files." (translation via Babelfish)
• PyBlosxom "is a lightweight file-based weblog system. The project started as a Python clone of Blosxom but has since evolved into a beast of its own. PyBlosxom focuses on three things: simplicity, extensibility, and community."
• reprise - "Minimal static blog with atom and tag support." Available as a single Ruby or Python file.

/blosxom | Dec 03, 2009