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Serendipity

A PHP-powered weblog engine for maintaining blogs and building on its framework.

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Serendipity is a PHP blog engine designed around reliability, security, extensibility and ease of use. It aims to give users a blog platform they can trust, with support available and the ability to influence the project as users or developers. The project also emphasizes simple, understandable interfaces and a PHP codebase intended to have a low entry barrier for developers.

Functionality is extended through plugins and themes, which add features or change a blog's appearance. The online plugin repository Spartacus organizes these extensions and supports their installation. The project maintains a list of features and developers, and publishes news through its official blog. The pages reviewed do not state pricing, editions, trial terms or seat-based and usage-based packaging.

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