LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation. It is written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. LifeType is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

LifeType began as a project to create a flexible blogging platform. LifeType was built with the intention to have a scalable architecture while keeping the core as light as possible, hoping to ensure an efficient and fast web-publishing engine. However, many features have allowed LifeType to be comparative to other more established blog software. LifeType borrows from several Open-Source components. These functional components together help make LifeType more fully-featured.

LifeType offers support for multiple blogs and multiple users in one installation. Each blog can be run in its own language and can be customized using a template engine. LifeType also features Bayesian spam filtering, media uploads, file handling, a customizable search engine friendly URLs and an administration area.

Lifetype integrates a web based wizard to help users to setup and configure their own blog.

With the integration of the template editor plug-in, users can make custom adjustments to LifeType’s templates. As an open source project, LifeType is built, maintained and adjusted by the Lifetype community of designers.

Features

• Multiple Blogs per Installation (suitable for blog hosting)
• Sub-domains
• Multiple Users per Blog
• Multiple Blogs per User
• Integrated Media Management (Podcasting, automatic thumbnail generation, a filebrowser and custom descriptions for each file)
• Extensible plug-in support
• Anti-Spam features (bayesian spam filter, comment moderation, Captcha (including the accessible ReCaptcha), trackback validation)
• Localization
• XML-RPC
• Mobile features (moblogging)