Wordpress is great for getting up and running very quickly. For the majority of people out there I think it's great, however for a PHP developer it's really not what I would prefer to blog in.

I would much rather build a blog into a site, instead of building a site around blogging software.

Thanks to the Yii framework, I was able to get up and running with this blog software, and now I'll have the Yii framework as the backbone, and not just blogging software.

I can already tell after doing some customizations that this is going to go well.