List of 20 Top Blogging Softwares

Posted by Master Blogger

Sep 29

Blogging whether done on personal or professional level is not an easy task. As it became more popular, more and more blogging tools were introduced including server-installed softwares. These developments give bloggers more freedom to choose the tools that satisfy their needs.

When a blogger decides to use a server-installed blogging software, some of the features being considered include

Support (Community support and technical support)
Ease of use
Flexibility or modifiability
Easy customization
Interoperability
Security
Popularity

The following list, in no particular order, includes server-installed (self-hosted) blogging softwares or scripts. Aside from personal weblogs, these scripts are also being used to present professional portfolio and as content management systems for businesses

WordPress
b2Evolution
Joomla
Drupal
Mambo
phpWebsite
NucleusCMS
php-Nuke
TextPattern
MoveableType
ExpressionEngine
Serendipity
LifeType
FlatPress
WheatBlog
sBlog
EggBlog
LoudBlog
Typo3
Xoops

1. WordPress

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License: GNU Public License
Features:

Full standards compliance
Template-driven
WordPress Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily
WordPress Links allow users to create, maintain, and update any number of blogroll full theme system
Cross-blog communication tools supporting both the Trackback and Pingback standards
Comments including trackbacks and pingbacks on individual entries
Spam protection
Full user registration
Password Protected Posts
Easy installation and upgrades
Easy Importing
XML-RPC interface
Supports different types of users
Typographical niceties
Intelligent text formatting
Multiple authors
Bookmarklets
Supports pinging Ping-O-Matic

2. b2Evolution

License: Free
Features

AntiSpam Deluxe
Multiple blogs
Blog skins
Multiple users and authors.
Integrated stats
Plugin framework.
Advanced categorization.
Localized in several language
Web standards compliance.
True workflow
Easy install & upgrade.
Support:

3. Joomla

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Open source CMS
Over 200,000 community users and contributors
Based on PHP and MySQL
Ease of Use
Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes
Completely database driven site engines
News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable
Topics sections can be added by contributing Authors
Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris, and AIX
Media (images, documents) upload and management
Search engine friendly (SEF) URL’s
WYSIWYG content editor support (built into the CMS)
Simple polls

4. Drupal

License: GNU General Public License 2
Features:

Collaborative Book
Friendly URLs
Modules
Online help
Open source
Personalization
Role based permission system
User authentication
Polls
Templating
Threaded comments
Version control
Blogger API support
News aggregator
Permalinks
Multi-platform
Database independence
Multi-language
Administration and analysis
Analysis
Tracking and Statistics
Logging and Reporting
Web based administration
Community features
Caching

5. Mambo

License: GNU General Public License
Features

Simple
Easy to install
Unparalleled Flexibility
Save time, Save Money
Active Community
Multiple Languages
Mature
Customisable
Open Source
Simple polls
Content voting/rating system.null

6. phpWebsite

License: GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License
Features:

Easy, web-based administration - minimal computer experience is needed to maintain site content.
Flexible layout control - site page layout can be changed at anytime.
Topic-based announcements - organize site announcements by category with automatic history rollover.
Interactive content - visitors can post comments, submit announcements and web links.
Full featured event calendar - post events by category and subcategory in a flexible cross-referenced calendar.
Customized user experience - themes allow each vistor to customize the web site for his or her preferences or special needs.
XHTML and WAI compliance - we are committed to meeting XHTML 1.0 specifications by our 1.0 release. Current errors are minimal.

7. NucleusCMS

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Maintenance of one or more weblogs/news-sites
Multiple Authors
Categories
Built-in commenting system
FancyURLs
Drafts and Future Posts
Fully Tweakable
Plugins
Bookmarklet and right-click blogging
Archives and Search
RSS and Atom Syndication
XML-RPC interface: Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs
IP-banlist
File/Image Upload
Backup/Restore

8. PHP-Nuke

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Supports images/links, javacript/HTML, and flash
Provides mobile version of the last 10 news articles
Content — Manages the main content “pages” of the website
Manages file downloads.
A simple module for managing phrases/words and their definitions.
Manages the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Allows site visitors to provide feedback to the webmaster using an online form, but provides the feedback via email.
Manages discussion forums for the site based on bb2nuke, which is a PHP-Nuke port of the
popular open-source PHPBB discussion board.
Blog platform
Displays the members of your site.
Manages news stories and supports future-dating news to be released at a specific date and time.
Allows members to send private messages
Recommend Us Form
Allows users to search website for information.
Displays statistics
Provides access to older news articles.
A form to allow visitors to submit a news story
Create surveys that visitors can respond to.
Displays the top 10 (or other number specified by you) news articles, downloads, etc.
Displays news by topic.
Manages a hierarchical directory of links to various websites of interest to your readers.
Manages members “profile” information, including their preferred site theme, the number of news articles to display on their home page, etc.

9. TextPattern

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Easy publishing using textile
Text-to-HTML converter
Preview post or page
XHTML and CSS compliant
Tag-based template system which allows the creation of reusable blocks of content and code,comments, trackbacks, pings, spam protection system
Built-in site statistics,RSS and Atom,plugins, CSS editor, link management system, image management system,integrated file management system

10. Moveable Type

Licenses: Movable Type, Movable Type Pro, and Movable Type Enterprise
Features:

TrackBack
Unlimited weblogs
Static and dynamic publishing
Create standalone pages asset and file manager
Customized User roles
Customizable templates, plugins / extensions, tags, categories, sub-categories…

11. ExpressionEngine

License:
Features:

Web Publishing
Template Engine
Commenting and Trackbacks
Communications
Search
Spam Deterrents
Typography
Tracking
Utilities
Add-On Modules and Plugins
Member Management
Data Caching
Security

12. Serendipity

License: BSD Licenses
Features:

Simple
Robust Editing Interface
Threaded comments, Nested categories and posting to multiple categories are supported.
Anti-Spam / Comment moderation.
Support for XML-RPC Editing. Support for both the Movable Type? and Blogger XML-RPC APIs.
Dynamic.
Trackback and Pingback.
Plugins.
Multiple Databases. Serendipity supports MySQL(i), PostgreSQL and SQLlite database backends.
Multiple Users.
Internationalized.
Skinable.
Open Source
Standards Compliant. Serendipity supports XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, RSS 0.93, 1.0, and 2.0, Atom 0.3 and 1.0.
Shared library.
Easy Upgrading.
Flexible Input/Output. Choose between HTML, Textile, Wiki, BBCode and a boast of other markups.
PHP-powered to fulfill the needs of ever-growing PHP-enabled websites and easy integration with
support of embedding Serendipity into your webpage.
Actively maintained by some skilled and open-minded developers

13. LifeType

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

integrated media management
Smarty templates
Plugins
Spam filter
Installation wizard
Moblogging
Multi blog
Nice looking URLs
XMLRPC interface for remote creating and editing articles. And of course you may ping as many directories as you like with the inbuilt XMLRPC ping service…

14. Flatpress

License: GNU GPLv2 License
Features:

Open-source
Standard-compliant (XHTML valid)
Plugin support
Widget system
Easy to customize with themes (powered by Smarty)
Does not require a DataBase Management System to work. All of its content are stored on text files.
PHP4 support needed

15. Wheatblog

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Simple, straightforward installation and use.
All pages are dynamically created using PHP and a database.
Posts can be assigned to categories and viewed by category or title.
Permanent URL’s, or permalinks, provide a unique, unchanging link to each post, and are readily indexed by search engines.
All posts allow reader comments, but can be locked by the administrator at any time.
A post can be marked visible or hidden at any time, allowing multiple
revisions before publishing.
All post dates are arbitrary (not based on timestamps) and completely controllable by the author.
Generates valid, well-formed RSS 2.0 feeds of your visible posts for effortless syndication.
Valid XHTML makes customization as easy as modifying one CSS file.
Open source

16. sBlog

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Spam.blocker using Captcha
Static pages
Customizable menu.
Flexible CSS markup
Multi-langual interface
Censoring
Post archive
sBLOG comes with a variety of blocks
Calendar
Easy to customize by using templates, styles and language files
Support for different time zones.
Easy upgrades and installation
Manage posts
Edit, save drafts, preview and publish your posts.
Manage images
Categories
Formatting using BBCodes
Syndication using RSS Feeds and/or XHTML
Trackback and trackback ping
Search
User comments
XHTML 1.0 Strict
URL rewriting

17. Eggblog
Egg Blog

License: see License for Commercial and non-Commercial
Features:

Easy to use web-based administration to add, edit and delete news articles
Easy to use web-based configuration to manage your web site settings
Wysiwyg easy-to-use text editor for publishing or editing news articles
Download themes to easily change the style, layout and colours of your site
Download additional language files (where available)
Optional forum to allow discussion
Optional comments on news articles to allow feedback on announcements
Optional sticky articles that remain fixed on all pages
Optional tags/categories on articles
Registered users allowed to leave comments on news articles
Registered users allowed to post messages in the forum
Automatic archiving of all news articles
Check for eggblog updates through the administration panel
Valid html 1.1, valid css 1.0 and wai friendly
Valid xml rss 1.0 feeds for both articles and forum topics

18. Loudblog

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Offers basic weblog functionality best for publishing media data on a regular basis
Handy features, simple usage
Schedule post publishing
Uses template and tag system
Automatically creates a valid Podcasting-feed
Compatible with Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, Serendipity, Geeklog or WordPress

19. Typo3

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Ease of use for content editors
Ease of use for site administrators
Template-based system
Membership/User administration
Flexible
Extensive support
Page and advance caching
Website Management
Customisability
Image manipulation
Uses PHP and mySQL

20. Xoops

License: GNU General Public License
Features:

Database-driven
Fully Modularized
Personalization
User Management
Supported World-wide
Fully supports multi-byte languages, including Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc.
Versatile Group Permissions System
Theme-based skinnable interface

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