I'm a marketer, and looking for a blog platform where we can host the blog ourselves - ie, I want to implement extreme customization. Anyone have any recommendations.<p>Wordpress is not capable enough.
If wordpress is not capable enough for you it is either 1) what you are trying to do is not within scope of normal web interaction or 2) you have very limited experience using wordpress.<p>you need to consult a web developer that you trust for these issue.
A lot of hackers use Octopress <a href="http://octopress.org/" rel="nofollow">http://octopress.org/</a> it is a framework over Jekyll which lets you write posts in an easy way like Wordpress. It also contains templates so you don't have to take care of the HTML/CSS/JS like in Jekyll
People seem to be pretty excited about <a href="https://ghost.org/" rel="nofollow">https://ghost.org/</a> these days. It's open source and looks to have a pretty strong community.
Maybe the poster means wordpress.com is not capabale enough? To me, Wordpress is a self-hosted platform and overly capable as a blog. It's also pretty capable for any other CMS-based site.
What are you capable of? What skills do you have in house? If you need extreme customization, what can you do? With the right skills you could just write your own.
What deficiencies does Wordpress have? How is it not capable enough? Knowing whether it won't perform well under the kind of load your audience generates leads to an entirely different answer than knowing that it is limited in some other way.<p>If Wordpress is lacking in extensibility, then my guess is you'd be better off with something like Django, which isn't a blog at all, but could easily be converted into one -- or you could start with an existing, minimalist Django blog package and extend it.<p>If Wordpress is simply lacking features you need though, that's a different conversation, as it's the most likely to get those feature in the future, and/or possibly the cheapest to have those extensions developed.