Question

I run a site using the MODx Content Management System. What I’d like to do is set up a news feed on the front page, with a blog-style backend that supports the usual things (tags, categories, archives basically).

I’ve looked into the MODx plugins which provide this functionality (the deprecated NewsPublisher – which we use currently – and Ditto), but I don’t like either of them that much. What I really want is something with an API, so that I can easily add news programmatically.

I’ve considered installing WordPress, however this seems like overkill given that we’re just using it in a fairly basic way! I’ve also considered rolling my own, but before I do that I just wanted to check there wasn’t something suitable out there already!

Does anyone have any suggestions for lightweight, highly customisable PHP blog / news frameworks with a decent API?

Answer 1

Chyrp seems like an interestng option: clean, lightweight php/mysql/a dash of ajax (John Gruber made note of it earlier this year)