Chyrp : A promising blogging engine & under-rated too!

Micro-blogging is amazing, it’s simply wonderful and there are many reasons as to why it’s beneficial for bloggers. There are many micro-blogging services available and I believe each and every one has a benefit of their own, here’s the list of popular micro-blogging services :

1. Twitter - mother of all micro-blogging services.
2. Jaiku - similar to twitter and now owned by Google.
3. Tumblr - Hosted solution of tumblelog.
4. Gelato CMS - another hosted solution of tumblelog.
5. Chyrp - Lightweight blogging engine.

This post is dedicated to Chyrp as yesterday was the first time, when I tried it and fell in love with it. What I really loved about it was that it’s pretty light weight, extendable and pretty easy to use.

Here’s what Chyrp has to say about itself :

“Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.”

Well, after looking at Chyrp and the way it works, I got a feeling that I’m looking at a stripped version of WordPress but still holds all the power to be extended to a level that it can compete with WordPress. Well, that may be called exaggeration but I can say that it really impressed me too much. In fact after such a long time, any product excited me so much.

Chyrp can be extended like WordPress with available modules (plugins in case of WP) and has got themes too. However, I still believe that theme engine of WordPress is far better than any other blog client.

To be honest, it’ll be unfair to compare Chyrp with WP and it will be called a direct competitor to Tumblr and I believe that it certainly deserves more and more praise than it gets. It’s pretty simple to use and installing it, is simplest stuff you can ever think of. It’s even simpler than WordPress. What the heck! you can test drive it right away and I’m sure you’ll know what I’m referring to.

I’ve built my own profile (mayank) on Chyrp platform and will extend it further according to my own needs. I believe that if you are thinking of starting a tumblelog/micro-blog then you should consider Chyrp as it’s powerful and extendable.