Chyrp is a PHP blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It has very powerful theme and extension engines, so you can personalize it however you want.

The code is well-documented, and it has a very stucture that's loosely based on the MVC design pattern. There are many things special about Chyrp, but the best way to describe it is to just have you try it yourself.

New Features of Chyrp:
- Added WYSIWYG Text Editor for Markdown and Textilize modules.
- Added HTML Meta "noindex" tag to Admin Theme
- Added Field Type 'checkbox" in Admin Theme.
- Added Field Type "checkbox" in Stardust Theme.
- Added Theme Editor.
- Added Scheduled Posting.
- Added Automatic Upgrade functionality.
- Added Notify option in Comment System Module
- Added Threaded Commenting functionality.
- Added email publishing support. EmailBlog Module
- Added registration activation by email.
- Added improvement for arbitrary templates in post_from_url()
- Added deprecated() function to mark deprecated methods.
- Added $post.author to be used in favor of $post.user (deprecated)
- Added random() function, returns a random post to read.
- Added Like Post Module, offering option to like/unlike a post.
- Added ability to login after completing installation
- Improved Archive Page for 60% speed performance.
- Updated tests to use 'secure_hashkey' from config
- Updated Video Feather. Now using AutoEmbed.php Class. Fixed #39.

Requirements:
- PHP 5.2.0 or Higher
- MySQL 4.1+
- SQLite 3+ with PDO