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• WordPress

  Date: 2010.06.25 | Category: CMS, blog | Response: 0

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  WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.

  It was first released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of September 2009, it was being used by 202 million websites worldwide.

  Features

  WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.

  Native applications exist for Android, iPhone/iPod Touch, and BlackBerry which provide access to some of the features in the WordPress Admin panel and work with WordPress.com and many WordPress.org blogs.

  Multi-blogging

  WordPress supports one blog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables.

  WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, or just WPMU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow multiple blogs to exist within one installation that is able to be administered by a centralized maintainer. WordPress MU makes it possible for those with a website to host their own blogging community, as well as control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.

  Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress MU would be merged with WordPress as part of a future release (version 3.0).

  Lyceum is another enterprise-edition of WordPress. Unlike WordPress MU, Lyceum stores all of its information in a set number of database tables. Notable communities that use Lyceum are TeachFor.Us (Teach For America teachers’ blogs), BodyBlogs and the Hopkins Blogs.

  

• TypePad

  Date: 2010.06.24 | Category: blog | Response: 0

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  TypePad is a blogging service from company Six Apart Ltd. Originally launched in October 2003, TypePad is based on Six Apart’s Movable Type platform, and shares technology with Movable Type such as templates and APIs, but is marketed to non-technical users and includes additional features like multiple author support, photo albums and moblogging.

  The service is available in several languages and countries around the world, but in the United States is sold at three different paid subscription levels.

  TypePad is currently used by many large organizations and media companies to host their weblog, such as ABC, MSNBC, the CBC, the BBC and Sky News.

  TypePad now supports a LinkedIn application that pulls blog posts into LinkedIn.

  

• b2evolution

  Date: 2010.06.23 | Category: blog | Response: 0

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  b2evolution is a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available without charge. François Planque forked b2evolution from version 0.6.1 of b2/cafelog in 2003. Another popular fork of b2 is WordPress.

  b2evolution is focused on ease of installation and feature richness. It can easily be installed on almost any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) host in a matter of minutes. With the latest release, no configuration file editing is necessary, as all configuration is handled through the installer or administrative back-end.

  One of the main differentiating features of b2evolution is its ability to manage multiple blogs and allow multi-user usage and administration under a single installation without the need of external plugins.

  Whilst there are a few exceptions; most of the releases are named after famous cities or particular places the project maintainer has been and/or inspired from.

  Features in current releases include: community-wide spam filters, in which many b2evolution sites aggregate and “tag” spammer IPs into a central blacklist for the benefit of all b2evolution blogs; a fully skinnable interface; localization into a dozen language packs; and a fully exposed API for plugin developers to add new functionality.

  Current Features list: as of {2009-12-19]

  • Multiple blogs
  • Multiple & sub-categories
  • Multiple domains
  • Blog skins / themes
  • Skin specific settings
  • Skin widgets
  • Photoblogs with thumbnail index
  • Featured posts
  • Intro posts
  • Attachments
  • Podcast support
  • Pages (out-of-flow posts / general info pages)
  • Posts can have custom fields
  • User comments
  • Comment ratings
  • Comment avatars with gravatar support
  • Allowing/closing comments on a post by post basis
  • Trackbacks
  • Spam filtering
  • Paged browsing
  • Archives by Year, Month, Week or Day
  • Archives by Category
  • Weekly archives
  • Category archives
  • Tags and tag clouds
  • Keyword search (and / or / phrase)
  • Multipage posts
  • Extended “read more” posts
  • Clean / keyword rich permalinks (no ? in URL)
  • Per post lang attribute
  • Author contact forms
  • Standalone admin contact form
  • Custom 404 pages
  • W3C web standards compliance

  Several popular plugins have been developed for b2evolution. These include text format extensions enabling Textile, Auto-P, Greymatter, BB code, Texturize, LaTeX, and graphic smilies. Also, plugins which facilitates full integration with third party tools such as Gallery 2, YouTube and digg are available.

  

• Blosxom

  Date: 2010.06.22 | Category: CMS, blog | Response: 3

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  Blosxom is a free-software weblog program (and simple content management system) written in Perl by Rael Dornfest and now maintained by a group of developers. It uses the pre-existing file system instead of a database management system, unlike most blog software.

  The design of Blosxom is minimalist. It is distributed as a single Perl script, and all configuration is done by editing this script. All of the weblog entries are stored as plain text files consisting of a headline, optional headers or meta-information (if using certain plugins), and a blank line followed by the post body. New display styles can be added by creating template files called flavours. Blosxom can operate as a CGI script or produce static HTML files. By default, Blosxom supports showing recent posts, doing content categorization, content retrieval by date (and permalinking based on that), and RSS feeds. It can be extended with dozens of available plugins.

  Blosxom has inspired many derivatives in various languages, including PyBlosxom (in Python), Blojsom (in Java), Blosxonomy (in Ruby), Blosxom.PHP (in PHP), and Hobix (in Ruby).

  Blosxom and its derivatives tend to be used by people who prefer to write weblog postings with their favourite text editor instead of using a web-based interface. However, there are plugins for web-based posting to a Blosxom weblog, too.

  It has a small but dedicated user base, including many users in Japan.

  

• Dotclear

  Date: 2010.06.21 | Category: blog | Response: 0

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  Dotclear is an open source blog publishing application distributed under the GNU GPLv2. It is relatively popular in French speaking countries, where it is used by several major blogging platforms. Developed originally by Olivier Meunier from 2002, Dotclear has now attracted a solid team of developers. The latest release of Dotclear is version 2.1.6, released on October 1, 2009.

  Dotclears proposed aim is to develop a software fully respecting web standards based on open source solutions with a multilingual capability for publication and for the interface. It is written in PHP (working with version 5.0 or higher) and proposes a choice of databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, …).

  Dotclear is offered as a free blogging system for all hostnames registered with Gandi.net, which guarantees a large number of users in Europe (24,421 as of 2010-02-07).