Likewise, one click installs any of more than 40 official templates , so your blog looks the way you like it. And Serendipity 's SPARTACUS plugin automatically checks the central repository for upgrades and new functionality whenever you check the list.

Advanced users value Serendipity 's Smarty templates for combining simplicity with well-documented web standards . It makes minor modifications trivial, but provides the power to unleash your creativity and completely customize your site! Serendipity 's outstanding support gives you the confidence to be adventurous, too.

Programmers and other technical users commend Serendipity for its fast, stable, clean PHP code . While beginners can learn from Serendipity , advanced programmers can easily make complex modifications. Serendipity is programmed in PHP, long recognized for its ideal blend of power, simplicity, and speed. Serendipity's BSD licensing ensures that programmers around the world can learn from it and improve it.

Users of other blogging/CMS applications are already switching to Serendipity , thanks to its easy customization and outstanding support. Corporate users are taking advantage of Serendipity 's unparalleled flexibility to set up fast, simple CMS sites.

Serendipity's basic features include something for everybody, from the personal blogger to the professional corporate web designer:

• WYSIWYG and HTML editing

• Built-in, powerful media database

• Multiple authors, configurable permission/usergroup system

• Threaded comments, nested categories, post to multiple categories

• Multiple languages (internationalization)

• Online plugin and template repository for easy plug-and-play installation

• Cool plugins: category-based sub-blogs, podcasting, RSS planet/aggregator, static pages

• Robust spam blocking

• One-click upgrading from any version

• Can be embedded into your existing web pages

• Standards-compliant templating through Smarty, remote blogging via XML-RPC

• BSD-style licensing

• Multiple Database support (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi)

• Shared installations can power multiple blogs from just one codebase

• Native import from earlier blog applications (WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...)

Of course, Serendipity has far too many other features to list!