PolkaDot 1.5

PolkaDot is a really simple blogging system, roughly based on Blurt, which in turn is based on Bloxsom.
PolkaDot project is much simpler than either, both in terms of installation/configuration as well as its (minimal) feature set. Its also written in PHP, rather than Perl like its inspirations.
Its short for "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Blogkini." Or did you mean "Why write PolkaDot?" Actually, my friend Roger has a blog and I was giving him a hard time because hes using WordPress rather than writing his own blogging software. (I mean, really, what kind of a geek doesnt write his own blogging software.) I had seen Blurt on Freshmeat recently, and decided to whip up something similar in PHP. Took a couple hours, total. (Granted, I grabbed all the hard code from php.net comments.)
Main features:
- Its free.
- It just needs PHP. Thats all. No database. No external libraries. No Perl or ASP. Nothing fancy at all. Itll run on the cheapest of hosts.
- Theres no real installation.
- Theres very little configuration. And, even if you dont configure a thing, itll still work.
- Its simple as can be:
- Posts are just text files.
- Categories are just sub-directories.
Version restrictions:
- Very few features.
- No RSS feed. (Although I might add this.)
- No comments. (Doubt Ill add this.)
- Uses system time. Im on the east coast. The host is on the west coast. So all the posts show a time 3 hours earlier than my local time. (I might fix this.)
- No fancy stuff like calendars and opinion polls.
- Probably doesnt scale real well. (But, if you wanted a large site, why would you even think of using this software?)
- A whole lot of other things that arent coming to me right at the moment.