Good point. Movable Type, one of the oldest blogging engines, used CGI Perl scripts for the admin interface and generated static files. I believe if someone mad

Good point. Movable Type, one of the oldest blogging engines, used CGI Perl scripts for the admin interface and generated static files. I believe if someone made a comment it would cause the relevant pages to be regenerated in just this way. I've sometimes pondered generating "static" sites which comprise PHP files, where PHP is only used for the actually dynamic parts. So common headers/footers are regenerated only when changed, but things that change constantly are still dynamic. But this would probably be pointless optimization; if one is using PHP, one may as well use it.