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kremmit
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Dec 23, 2004, 04:55 PM
 
Anyone have some recommendations for best blogging software in PHP?

I heard movabletype was good, but that costs money. I am looking for free.

I have also seen WordPress.

Any other ideas, or suggestions?
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Dec 23, 2004, 05:58 PM
 
personal blog or are you going for something a lot bigger.

i have not played with wordpress all that much, so i can't help you there.

movabletype does have a free personal edition. 1 author, 3 blogs. my site runs off that free version of mt. i am using 2 of the 3 blogs (1 for news, and other for stuff. i could have done it all in 1 blog, but it is a little easier in two.

if you are not going to have more than one author i don't see why mt is not okay.
     
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Dec 23, 2004, 08:12 PM
 
"best" is defined by your needs - other than free.

define your needs.
     
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Dec 23, 2004, 09:27 PM
 
What's wrong with WordPress?
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Dec 23, 2004, 10:58 PM
 
Originally posted by Chuckit:
What's wrong with WordPress?
online poker spam mostly.
     
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Dec 24, 2004, 05:58 AM
 
Originally posted by registered_user:
online poker spam mostly.
that problem isn't confined to wordpress alone
     
kremmit  (op)
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Dec 24, 2004, 05:15 PM
 
Is there a plugin/hack for WordPress that shows a user image of the poster (from a bunch of images of that poster) for each post, like in LiveJournal?


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Dec 27, 2004, 03:57 AM
 
I have had good results with B2Evolution. Here is my blog. It is totally customizable, but I haven't done much to mine and am using a theme instead of making a new design for myself. Perhaps in the near future!
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Dec 27, 2004, 04:01 AM
 
Other threads on this, if you search.

I like iBlog because it's pretty painless to use with .Mac. However, I do remember rumors that Apple might be coming up with some blogging software at MacWorld (hence, Wil Wheaton's appearance as a speaker since he's been pretty big on it).

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Dec 27, 2004, 10:52 AM
 
Originally posted by Randman:
However, I do remember rumors that Apple might be coming up with some blogging software at MacWorld (hence, Wil Wheaton's appearance as a speaker since he's been pretty big on it).
If I remember correctly, there were plans for a blog server in Tiger Server (though not the Client version). I think it was supposed to be based on Blojsom, the Java clone of Blosxom. This news is old, and so it may have changed, but that was the general idea.

Personally, I'm a fan of Wordpress myself.
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Dec 27, 2004, 11:07 AM
 
Another thumbs up for B2Evolution. I use it in my blog (in my sig)
     
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Dec 28, 2004, 04:31 PM
 
If you just want to post updates, Cutenews is where it's at!
     
   
 
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