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I had been looking for something to manage my web presence easily for a long time. I've gone through several phases, corresponding to different tools (always written in Ruby). I recently looked into the software our Japanese overlords are using and evaluated tdiary and Hiki, retaining the latter because a wiki is intrinsically more flexible than a blog, only missing some features I was willing to code.

So I patched Hiki and hacked a couple plugins to turn it into a simple CMS:

• single-user editing policy
• changes to make it look less like a wiki to unauthenticated users (i.e. everybody but me)
• enhanced comment plugin
• better RSS syndication, based on tags
• node aggregation to generate blog indices

The most important changes (locking up the wiki and hiding in part its true nature) required but 5 lines of code. The blog-oriented features were easy to implement thanks to Hiki's powerful plugin system. Given these small modifications and additions to Hiki, my modified version keeps all the functionality Hiki had already, and now features:

• web-based editing by the owner and access through a XML-RPC interface
• sitemap, table of contents, attachment list generation
• RSS syndication: recent nodes, RSS feeds restricted to a set of tags
• blog indices based on tags
• user comments
• file uploads
• CVS/SVN integration for version control of the whole site
• incremental (AJAXy) search

...

I'm still discovering interesting plugins (pagerank, trackback, referrer tracking, BBS, RSS display, search term highlighting, math support through TeX...). This looks really good.

Here's my patch: