Nice blogging software comparison chart. Since the license has changed for Movable Type, I’m going to be switching soon. WordPress looks really nice, but has one major downside for me: it doesn’t support multiple blogs with a single installation. I currently have 5 friends who blog here on pubcrawler.org and would really like to be able to continue that. I’m looking for:
- clean interface
- PHP/MySQL
- Dynamic pages rather than static
- Movable Type import
- Multiple blogs with a single installation
- Categories
- Templates would be nice
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May 24th, 2004 at 4:36 pm
Check out nucleus (http://nucleuscms.org). I know it doesn’t have moveable type import, but if you wanted to, I’m sure it wouldn’t be too big of a deal to write an importer for it (since they have other ones). Other than the importing, nucleus has everything you want!
May 24th, 2004 at 4:44 pm
Have you tried dotclear ?
May 24th, 2004 at 4:50 pm
Wordpress can run multiple blogs. Check out this page:
http://blog.carthik.net/vault/.....wordpress/
It’s not a single installation, but it’s also not a huge headache to set them up. A lot easier than setting up MT for the first time. You can certainly duplicate what you are doing on pubcrawler without too much of a headache though.
May 24th, 2004 at 4:59 pm
Nucleus does have an MT importer! It’s located here: http://pilpi.net/design/mt_nucleus_conversion.php
I’m a Nucleusaddict who has tried WordPress and I must say… WordPress is nice but Nucleus has a lot more to offer. Nucleus 3.0 is due in a few days.
May 24th, 2004 at 8:03 pm
Try out textpattern. You can find it at http://www.textpattern.com. It fits all of your requirements, has excellent licensing, and is currently available with a once-in-a-lifetime hosting package (see forum.textpattern.com for more details).
I highly recommend it.
May 24th, 2004 at 8:56 pm
It’s not hard to run multiple WordPress installation. You can select a prefix for the tables used, so each user would just have a different set of tables in the SQL database. If you have a common style and feature set among your friends’ blogs, you can just install the files once with some symlink magic and a separate config file for each user. No, it’s not very graceful, but it works, and it negates any reason to use a less functional or solid blog software.
Although if you plan on doing major custom modifications, I’ll have to warn you away from WordPress. The code is absolutely horrible. Disgustingly so. The sort of thing the developers should be absolutely ashamed they wrote. Yes, it works, very well, but it’s a nightmare to hack on.
May 24th, 2004 at 11:48 pm
Actually Jamin.
I am going the other route, switching from wordpress to pivot flat file database with support dor multiple authors, Works great on my test install.
May 25th, 2004 at 4:53 am
There is also b2evolution:
http://b2evolution.net/
May 25th, 2004 at 6:27 am
I have 6 blogs running here on Wordpress and it is a breeze to setup. I chose to do seperate databases instead of just different table prefixes. I’m sure it would get confusing if you had a ton of blogs, but it works great with just a handful.
May 25th, 2004 at 9:05 am
Plog?
http://www.plogworld.org/
May 25th, 2004 at 11:19 pm
Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I haven’t decided yet, but I’ll be looking at all those blogging platform.
January 25th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
Does anybody have a comparison chart for hosted blogging solutions please?