I can’t recall how many times I’ve been wanting to change my homepage. I’ve been looking for the “perfect” CMS to host my pages and tried out all kinds of more or less complete applications available. Well, I think I’ll settle with wordpress. It has, with a few plugins the following features that I require.

• It should have a blog with a basic WYSIWYG editor and possibility to syntax highlight code.
• Possibility to easily run custom PHP-code.
• Upload files for use in blog-posts and in a separate download page.
• Looks good without too much tweaking.
• Integrate all above features very tightly.

Ok. WordPress is mainly a blog but it has some CMS features, especially with a few extra plugins. It is however great for a single user.

I prefer to use an already existing solution than writing my own. Also, everything needs to work without too much tweaking. I don’t want the application to break if I ever need to upgrade it because of a security hole.