Blog software

[commodore]

I'm thinking about making my own blog so I could write mad stuff and people could come and try insulting me because of my bad opinions in my entries, but I don't know what kind of blog software/blogware to use. There's so many of them out there. I have always been thinking of b2evolution for some reason. I'd like a blog software that's made by "GNU minded" people, you know, who like free software an Linux. What's the best one for me?

[Zelut]

I use & like Wordpress. I used b2evolution for quite some time but recently switched. Its very easy to use and takes about 5 seconds to install.

www.wordpress.org

[Virogenesis]

damn i was beaten wordpress seems to be the most supported its php/mysql driven and follows standards

[s_spiff]

how to install wordpress? and is there any free hosting service? also.. i couldn't quite understand how to install my own themes... i went nuts..so finally quit it :P i stick to www.rediffblogs.com which is quite simple..and decent.

[Zelut]

wordpress itself has a free hosting server using their blog software. I thought it was pretty easy to skin & there are hundreds of free skin templates out there to use. Check out their site & see what you can find.

[majikstreet]

I love wordpress.

[Randomskk]

I use Wordpress for my blog, and the blogs I've setup for friends. We all love it :D

[s_spiff]

did check out their skins..but i found them not so interesting as one i found on the net...cant quite remeber the exact name of the theme..but it required me to do so and so..and i couldn't find al that in the qordpress options..

[jeremy]

It's a while since I looked at it in depth, but Nucleus is good.
http://nucleuscms.org

[Danni]

Another b2evolution to Wordpress convert here- and I had to upload each file individually using my file manager (my ftp wasn't working for some reason).

It wasn't hard to install (once I had all the files up in the correct places :P) and is lovely to use now :)

[ixus_123]

Another vote for wordpress here. I was drawn to it for the same reason I use Ubuntu over Slackware - the support is so much better. It's active & there are loads of plugins, forums, & spin off sites to get themes etc.

One resource I did find really useful whilst trying to figure out what I wanted was

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

You can basically try out a whole load of blogging & CMS software on that sites servers - change anything you like, add content, themes etc - it resets every 2 hours or so, so you wont do any damage & nothing you do whilst playing around is permanent

[mrgnash]

Flock and Blogger for me *shrugs*

[commodore]

But do wordpress people like Linux and GNU (I know wordpress is licensed under GPL)?

[majikstreet]

But do wordpress people like Linux and GNU (I know wordpress is licensed under GPL)?
Probably.. I would look at some of the developers websites if you want to really know... there are links on the site I think.

[briancurtin]

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

You can basically try out a whole load of blogging & CMS software on that sites servers - change anything you like, add content, themes etc - it resets every 2 hours or so, so you wont do any damage & nothing you do whilst playing around is permanent
VERY useful site right here, thanks for that. a lot of times people have demos available of their tools, but this puts them all in one central location and lets you try it all out. i checked out word press on that site since i saw it in this thread and setup one of their free hosted versions (my host sucks and i cant run basically anything blog/CMS wise)

[WildTangent]

I'm not a big fan of using the most popular software, so I use Nucleus CMS (http://nucleuscms.org/). Check out my blog here (http://www.w1ldt4ng3nt.net/Justin/blog/).

-Wild

[s|k]

I use wordpress.

[galgoz]

I use drupal for my family blog site.

[celloandy]

But do wordpress people like Linux and GNU (I know wordpress is licensed under GPL)?

Well, it's written in PHP, and while PHP does run under IIS and Windows, that's not common, it seems. In general, PHP tends to be paired with Apache and Linux/Unix, and Windows people use ASP.NET or something... so if they weren't Linux-friendly, they would have chosen a different language.

Andrew

[steevc]

I use pyblosxom. I used Postnuke before, but that was far more than I needed. The various blosxom variants don't need any sort of database. Each article is a text file, so they are pretty easy to create. I went for pyplosxom as I was hoping to learn some more Python and do some customisation, but that has not happened yet.

[brentroos]

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[MenZa]

WordPress is a great blogging platform; free, semantic and with great a variety of themes and plugins for all users. I use it for my blog -- I even theme a bit for it.

[airtonix]

not sure about the lawyer stuff but its free as in beer....and its called Drupal.

which btw is maturing nicely....currently weighing in at version 4.7, its shines well.

[airtonix]

Drupal. it can be anything.

e107 is based on drupal anyway.
wordpress is restricted in its application of content. the theming concept it uses is horrendous to update, And there is no permission system....so group works are much harder to manage.

but im not sure about the others...but i can say that the forums of the two fore mentioned projects have alot of posts from people switching from those projects i have not used being mentioned here in this thread.

[DigitalDuality]

i really don't see the point in doing anything more complex than what say myspace or blogger would allow you to do. There's plenty of sites out there that will allow you to create, maintain and give's you ton of design flexibility without installing a damned thing.

[Jucato]

Hmm... just two quick questions:

1. what are blog softwares for? What can they do that's different from what Blogger or Blogdrive does?

2. What's CMS and does it do?

Sorry, kinda new to these things...

[vinodis]

Does anyone know any alternatives to Blogging software Like wBloggar in Linux?
[edit]
i found one solution here:- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=28317&highlight=Blogging

[gray-squirrel]

Hmm... just two quick questions:

1. what are blog softwares for? What can they do that's different from what Blogger or Blogdrive does?

2. What's CMS and does it do?

Sorry, kinda new to these things...

1. Blog software allows you greater control on how your blog looks and runs. There are limits to what you can do with Blogger and wordpress.com that you do not have to worry about when you have a Web host, your own domain, and blogging software.

2. Content Management System. It goes beyond mere blogs. With a CMS you can also have polls, discussion forums, news articles. . . and people can still subscribe to your RSS feeds. (More here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system).)

Some have put WordPress in the CMS category, but I have realized almost a month ago that a lot of work is required to get it close to that. There's nothing wrong with it, but for me I do see my needs change as I am preparing for changes on my site. I'm not removing my blog, but I do want to add things such as polls, a glossary of terms, and other things as needed.

This is where a CMS like Drupal comes in. It's true that you can put in a poll or two, or a glossary in WordPress - but again, it will take a significant amount of time. A CMS opens the doors to flexibility and makes it easier for a site to grow. Plus, for me, being into object-oriented programming, it makes better sense to keep various components separate from each other. It's hard to work to in that mindset in WordPress, which is why I'm in the process of installing and testing Drupal before my redesigned site goes live mid-summer.

By the way, if you prefer PostgreSQL databases, you may want to consider using Drupal. WordPress uses only MySQL, but there is a port (http://wordpress-pg.sourceforge.net) which uses PostgreSQL which is a version behind the official. (Of course, it might be an opportunity to help update the ported version. I'm not a part of that project, by the way.)

[DJ_Max]

Well, it's written in PHP, and while PHP does run under IIS and Windows, that's not common, it seems. In general, PHP tends to be paired with Apache and Linux/Unix, and Windows people use ASP.NET or something... so if they weren't Linux-friendly, they would have chosen a different language.

Andrew
That's a very bad assumption, PHP is platform-independent, and since Apache runs under Windows, does it make the Apache group less Linux friendly. I should also be said GNU is not Linux, nor the epitome of FOSS.

But anyway, I use Typo (http://typosphere.org)

[dkitty]

wordpress is restricted in its application of content. the theming concept it uses is horrendous to update, And there is no permission system....so group works are much harder to manage.

My work with wordpress only started recently, but so far I couldn't agree more with airtonix. I use, hack, and skin for both b2evolution and wordpress... though please excuse my homepage as I haven't had much time to update it since the most recent b2evolution version. Each of the two blog engines have strengths and weaknesses.

I very much recommend b2evolution if you're planning to host more than one blog with more than one author. b2evolution is well up to that task. Have a peek at one of my projects, The Well Fed Network (http://www.wellfed.net) if you'd like an example. Well Fed has nine public blogs (several hidden, too) and over one hundred twenty writers all run from a single installation of b2evolution. While it's true that I had to hack the skins a lot, the beauty of b2evolution is that the skins can contain a lot of functions themselves. The basic blog engine at Well Fed is only slightly hacked.

The tech stuff at Accidental Hedonist (http://www.accidentalhedonist.com) is also my doing and may be a good example. AH is a single blog for one person run with an unmodified b2evolution engine. The skins have all sorts of hacks that allow for different things. But please ignore the current color scheme at AH. The colors of the nasty brown layout are Kate's choice.

While I wrote a RSS enclosure hack for b2evolution v0.9.2 (http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=8257) (podcasts, vidcasts, etc.), podcasting isn't supported in the latest version of b2evolution. If you're looking for a podcasting client, look somewhere else.

If you want a single, easy blog for one person that you don't have to hack much and you like the themes available for wordpress, then use wordpress. I recommend putting an installation on your own server or via a hosting plan somewhere. Lunar Pages (http://www.lunarpages.com) is inexpensive, fairly good with support, and they are one of the few companies who allow erotica (but not porn thumbnail galleries, whatever those are). Having wordpress on your own server space lets you change a lot of things that might otherwise be unavailable to you. For instance, there are a lot of well-written and very easy to install plugins for wordpress.

Both b2evolution and wordpress are released under Gnu Public Licenses:

http://wordpress.org/about/

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL.

http://b2evolution.net/about/license.html

b2evolution is free software; you can get the software freely - including source code - by downloading it here; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License (see below), or (at your option) any later version.