Article management and publishing system (Wordpress-like)

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I am planning to create an article management system. I am looking to build a system where I can add articles, edit them if needed, and have a list of them displayed to me via an admin interface.
New articles, once added through this interface, will be published to the site, which will also be running using this software.
A poor man's Wordpress, in short.
I am not looking for bloated software with a huge learning curve - I did a Google search and did not find anything promising. So, thought of asking here: do you know of any light-weight open source software which does this?

If not, then do you know what framework will be most suited for this (I am thinking of using PHP)? Are there any scripts available for this?
 


Thanks dchuk for the reply. Those are some good links...
If it is a lean open source script with 10-15 pages, or something I build from scratch, I can learn it and can have total control over it. Once I customize it, any security flaws or bugs will be known only to me.
With Wordpress or any popular blog/CMS software, don't you have to watch for the latest patches/upgrades all the time? I maybe overanalyzing here, but if you have multiple sites, won't the maintenance and upgrades become a pain after a while?
 
wait, so basically, you want an article management system to manage all your wp?

If it's just a few sites, it's not that difficult to manage WP, I would imagine a system like that would probably not worth the cost, unless you have like 100 sites.
 
omega42900 said:
wait, so basically, you want an article management system to manage all your wp?

If it's just a few sites, it's not that difficult to manage WP, I would imagine a system like that would probably not worth the cost, unless you have like 100 sites.
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Sorry if I was not clear - I am thinking of avoiding WP altogether, and using a customized or built-from-scratch article admin/publishing software system.
 
zxcvb said:
Thanks dchuk for the reply. Those are some good links...
If it is a lean open source script with 10-15 pages, or something I build from scratch, I can learn it and can have total control over it. Once I customize it, any security flaws or bugs will be known only to me.
With Wordpress or any popular blog/CMS software, don't you have to watch for the latest patches/upgrades all the time? I maybe overanalyzing here, but if you have multiple sites, won't the maintenance and upgrades become a pain after a while?
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nah, not really. Wordpress is pretty fuckin rock solid. You can't beat the massive amounts of plugins and themes they have either.

But hey, if you like to code, go for it. Otherwise, if you want to make money, use wordpress and move on to other tasks. Just value your time appropriately.
 
dchuk said:
But hey, if you like to code, go for it. Otherwise, if you want to make money, use wordpress and move on to other tasks. Just value your time appropriately.
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Agree. I forget it often, though.

By the way, just saw your signature, and checked - I first read about Watir @ Layered Thoughts, and still have the link bookmarked. I have used LWP and iMacros before, but didn't know that Ruby had so many utilities and libraries. Thanks man.
 
zxcvb said:
Agree. I forget it often, though.

By the way, just saw your signature, and checked - I first read about Watir @ Layered Thoughts, and still have the link bookmarked. I have used LWP and iMacros before, but didn't know that Ruby had so many utilities and libraries. Thanks man.
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you have no idea the power of watir man, I <3 it. Coding up some pretty sick stuff with it lately...Glad you liked the post!
 
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