Choosing the Best Blogging Platform

Blog Programs, Scripts or Apps

What to look for in Blogging Software

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While WordPress may be the most popular and well suited for entry level bloggers. There are many others that are just as easy or easier to use each having its own set of unique tools, features, and interfaces. Choosing the right platform involves considering the type of blog and content you want to produce

WordPress

Over 80 million people have chosen WordPress to create their Website. It is one of the most popular programs you can use. Most of the people using WordPress are neither web designers or programmers with out any prior knowledge of web designing
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Pubvana

A re-branding of the Open Blog v3 with many major improvements and new features. Utilizing the fun to use and powerful Bootstrap front end framework. Designed to be the easiest, most intuitive blog app to use for every type of websites
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Serendipity

Being a PHP driven blog program which gives anyone an easy way to maintain their online website. While the default install is designed for the average blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible expandable and easy to use script
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Dotclear

Designed to provide a easy to use, user friendly app allowing anyone to publish a blog on the web, regardless of their technical skills. The project grew to provide a user friendly app allowing anyone to publish on the web regardless of their technical skills
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b2evolution

Created as a advanced Web Blog app that allows you to run your own blogs, news feeds, photo stream or website with features normally provided by Wikis
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Textpattern

Another blog created to help make publishing online easy, and to simplify the production of a well structured, standard compliant website. Textpattern is a flexible elegant and easy to use "Content Management System"
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Nibbleblog

Easy, fast and of course free Blog CMS. The database is based on XML files and do not need MySQL or similar DBMS
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LifeType

Uses PHP as a programming language and an SQL based environment to store information allowing you to use it for multiple blogs and users. Some examples of features include a WYSIWYG editor, media management, built-in spam filter and support for trackback blogs
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Pixie

A great blogging app that will help quickly create your own blog. Many people refer to this type of software as a (CMS) “Content Management System”. They prefer to call it a "Small, Simple, Site Maker" (SSM)
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HTMLy

A DatabaseLess Blogging Platform or Flat-File Blog designed for simplicity and speed written in PHP. Using a unique algorithm to search for or list any content based on date, category, tag, or author
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PivotX

Maintain dynamic websites, web blogs, online journals and other frequently updated websites. Written in PHP and uses MySQL or flat files as a database
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FlatPress

Standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a database to work and saves your posts as simple text files. Written in PHP you will not need MySQL
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Leafpub

Blogging script with inline editing, handlebar templates with a beautiful user interface. The first open source publishing platform to feature a true WYSIWYG editor
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Movable Type

A great tool to build websites, blogs, and communities on a single platform. It is easier than ever to publish and share information with this Blogging Program
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PageCookery

One of the first single user version of a "Micro Blogging" program. Utilizing PHP and MySQL based architecture for safety, efficiency and stability for the concept of Web 2.0 solutions
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Nucleus

It lets writers do what they are best at: Writing, without having to worry about formatting and markup. Nucleus CMS is a flexible and easy to install blog software
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eggBlog

Another free open source blog software package developed with PHP that uses MySQL to store information. Included is a forum, photo album and is mainly directed towards advanced users, developers, or system administrators
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Chyrp

Blogging engine designed to be lightweight while retaining functionality. Powered by PHP with theme and extension engines, Personalizing it to your liking. The code is well documented and it has a strong structure that is some what based on the MVC design pattern
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