Favorite Blog Apps?

[A. Khattri]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:

> While I'm soliciting input, anyone care to comment on their favorite
> apps for blogging? To be clear, I'm not asking for a list of favorite
> blogs, but apps with which to create, maintain, and manage a blog.
>
> I'm looking for one that supports multiple users, if that makes a
> difference.

Ah, something Ive had a *lot* of experience with.

Ive used Movable Type - nice but license is not open source and publishing
actually generates static pages which can get tedious as content
increases (It uses Perl and the admin interface is a CGI).

Ive had good experiences with WordPress - uses PHP and MySQL. Very nice
admin interface, supporting multiple authors and basic workflow, and easy
to customize.

Blosxom uses text files that get transformed during the page request stage
- this means every request runs a CGI script. I decided not to use this -
Id like to avoid CGI if I can help it.

You could also look at more generic content management tools. Ive built
two sites with Mambo (mamboserver.com). It includes a news component that
could be used as a blog. Uses PHP and MySQL.

Ive recently started playing with Xaraya. It is a more generic content
management tool but, speaking with my web developer hat on, the design is
excellent. Uses XML tags to separate layout from data - this is great from
a customization standpoint since all the templates are basically just HTML
with a few XML tags thrown in. It includes a nice backend supporting
multiple users. Has a blogger component and support for remote publishing.
Uses PHP and MySQL.


If you want quick n easy blog, pick WordPress. If you want something
that might become something bigger later on, pick Xaraya.


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