Instead of writing your own blogging engine, I would suggest using one of the many extensible blogging platforms as a base and building from there. I personall

Instead of writing your own blogging engine, I would suggest using one of the many extensible blogging platforms as a base and building from there. I personally have become a huge fan of statically-generated blogs (using Jekyll[1] for Ruby or Hyde[2] for Python) as they integrate great with version control and require little maintenance. Another benefit is speed, as nginx serves static content with ease. [1]:https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll [2]:https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde