Sure, a new shiny version with a lot of bells and whistles will make it more writer friendly while adding to the bloat, but it's sad to see lot of people out there spending more time upgrading and spending more time meddling with the back cms system rather than the spending time writing actual quality posts.
Wordpress is nice, I've used it since 1.5 something, but recently dropped it completely and wrote my own just because the bloat was unbearable and there are too many features that I won't ever use. And if I skip out on updating, then comes the script kiddies using all the holes to exploit the site and others to plug ads and spam. And when I get around to updating, all the customization hacks done to the wordpress installation either completely goes fubar or everything comes to a screeching halt.
/rant
Spend a day, write your own cms and save a ridiculous amount of time in the long run while having total control over your features.
"Production quality" means something different for when the target audience is you, the target audience is one person, or the target audience is the general public.
All a blog is is a bunch of web pages. You don't even need a CMS to create those, you can just create them by hand. But I have been called "old-school" on occasion.
Understand that a blog is nothing more than a list of posts/entries. Simplest case is have one php script that just dumps the entries from the SQL database on to a page (you can improve up on that with things like pages, tags, trackbacks, etc) but those are all extras.
Comments are just entries, except they have a extra field that specify which post/entry they belong to.
Posts and Comments, the only two things required for a blog. Now just improve upon that.
Do a few PHP/MySQL tutorials and you should be able to do this pretty easily.
And this can be done very short too... mine is 1700 lines (that includes whitespace and comments) running janitha.com right now
* Posts/Pages
* Comments
* A Captcha-like Implementation
* Gallery Intergration
* A simple Plugin/Widget Architecture
* Simple Admin Interface for adding/modifying/deleting posts
* RSS
* URL Rewriting
* Automatic Static Caching
I'm not sure what to think about the casual use of the term 'lebensraum', originally the Nazi rationale for invading and displacing eastern european peoples, to describe a new, more-spacious HTML page layout.
Is it a positive sign of how far we've come from the horrors of WW2, or a negative sign of how much we've forgotten? (I wonder the same thing about the bay area record store called 'The Vinyl Solution'.)
I'll be an optimist and consider it a positive sign, but it's still jarring to me in context.
Wordpress is nice, I've used it since 1.5 something, but recently dropped it completely and wrote my own just because the bloat was unbearable and there are too many features that I won't ever use. And if I skip out on updating, then comes the script kiddies using all the holes to exploit the site and others to plug ads and spam. And when I get around to updating, all the customization hacks done to the wordpress installation either completely goes fubar or everything comes to a screeching halt.
/rant
Spend a day, write your own cms and save a ridiculous amount of time in the long run while having total control over your features.