Today, I officially release Chameleon, a blogging platform focused on customizability and extensibility. Its first public version, version 0.5.5 Beta, comes with quite a lot of functionality already included, but with even more still missing. Along the way to 1.0, this functionality will be added, growing Chameleon into a mature blogging solution.
As already said in my previous post, Advanced content management, I’m releasing a blogging engine: Chameleon is what I’ve come up with. It’s a blogging platform, with special stress on “platform”, aimed to bring blogging to a “next level”. A weblog shouldn’t only be a place where you write articles, it should be a personal website allowing for all sorts of content to be published. Whether you’re a writer, a photographer, a podcaster, or you want to combine those, Chameleon should make this possible.
To get started using Chameleon, you need download it, and follow the instructions in the README (also available online). After the installation, you have a working Chameleon installation, ready to be used. You can modify the templates to your preferences, add types, and publish new entries. When encountering bugs, be sure to report them, as you should do with feature requests. Chameleon also has forums, for support and general discussion. Based on the reactions I get, I may release a version 0.5.6 of Chameleon, incorporating some fixes and requests.
Meanwhile, I’ll be focusing my attention on adding new features, especially theming, to make Chameleon move a bit closer to version 1.0.
