If you want something with a better and easier template functionality, I would suggest Yanno. Yanno was actually inspired by Blosxom, and I wrote it because I didn’t like Blosxom’s confines. The plugin stuff is more powerful, and the way everything works is much, much more expandable than Blosxom has to offer. Almost any Blosxom plugin can be modified slightly to work with Yanno, and vice-versa. Currently I have six plugins, one of which (login2) works with both Blosxom and Yanno. The only drawback currently is that Yanno is still young. It currently powers 3 sites including
My Site and this one (soon to be extrude.net). Notice the blog functionality on mine. Yanno supports .edit editing, meaning editing the content part (with live preview) within the browser, when you are logged in. Not to mention very robust interpolation in a way that plugins can add tag names with corresponding subroutines. Plugins never cause errors. Debugging is a joy with the debugging messages output and the deeper debugging output. … … …

If you’re curious, take a look at my site and ask me any questions you have via email. You can always find the site easily on Google.