Simple intranet blog

[dgsmith]

Our T&L co-coordinator would like to have a page setup on the intranet to publish notices on teaching and learning, as well as a simple blog to post updates and information.

I could make a simple php/mysql script but it'd need to be somewhat more sophisticated than the type of interface/interaction i'd come up with! Does anyone know of a reasonably good, free and intuitive system, ideally php-driven, that can be "dropped" into an existing structure with little effort? I have tried nibbleblog that is php, but it doesn't seem customization and doesn't work for some users properly (which I don't get).

[unixman_again]

Maybe https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki#

[Norphy]

Do you have Office 365 or G-Suite? Office 365 has SharePoint Online which can do blogging while G-Suite has Blogger. I know they're not exactly Intranet and definitely not PHP but if you're already using one or the other for email and cloud storage, they might be suitable?

[hglyde]

We wrote our own system for this after the last one they set up using Wordpress (which was public) got attacked by Turkish hackers. Edited March 7, 2018 by hglyde

[sparkeh]

I just stuck wordpress on a small vm and let them get on with it

[dgsmith]

Thanks for the suggestions. I was seeking to incorporate something into the intranet layout rather than a fully-blown system that does alot more (which is not required). The teacher simply wants to have a basic area to post general news in the easiest way without needing to navigate a full system/CMS. I may well end up needing to write something as it transpires, though I thought there would surely be something out there suitable..