{"id":80,"date":"2006-06-21T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2006-06-21T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T06:10:00","slug":"pivot-blogging-software-i-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/pivot-blogging-software-i-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivot &#8211; Blogging Software I use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sidebar links is to the the <a href=\"http:\/\/mensan.eu\/\" title=\"a Mensa blog written by Mensans\">Mensan Blog<\/a> and I host this on my (reseller) server. Its handy doing it that way because I can add the type of enhancements like a google map page that just isn&#8217;t possible with the likes of Blogger. <\/p>\n<p>The mensan blog uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivotlog.net\/\">Pivot<\/a>, open source blogging software. I just wanted something easy to install and Pivot is excellent. It is very nippy- possibly because it uses flat files rather than a database&#8230; though of course how well that scales remains to be seen but I think not a while. Its very easy to customise &#8211; I&#8217;ve added Google Analystics, a Flickr link and Technorati to it. So if you&#8217;re looking for a poweful but easy to use, install and configure multiple blog system, give pivot a try. <\/p>\n<p>The version of Pivot I&#8217;m using &#8211; the latest is 1.3RC2 (Release Candidate 2) which means well past Beta and almost full release. I&#8217;ve found (possibly) one bug with the pinging urls but that easy worked around using the 3rd party Pinging services of <a href=\"http:\/\/pingoat.com\/\">Pingoat.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/pingomatic.com\/\">pingomatic<\/a> But Pivot itself has proved very stable and robust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sidebar links is to the the Mensan Blog and I host this on my (reseller) server. Its handy doing it that way because I can add the type of enhancements like a google map page that just isn&#8217;t possible with the likes of Blogger. The mensan blog uses Pivot, open source blogging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}