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Question: Which PHP-based blogging tool should I use?

sauril — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:23:00 -0800

Which PHP-based blogging tool should I use?

I'm getting married this summer, and with most guests coming from out of town, I thought it would be a good idea to set up a blog for any news and information I need to provide. I have a domain and hosting I'd like to use, and I have PHP/MySQL setup on the server. Which package would fit my needs? It would be nice if it a) was free and b) has some decent tempates, my design sucks.

By: davar

davar — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:31:24 -0800

Wordpress is the most popular choice, and it fits all you requirements. It is very easy to install.

By: Good Brain

Good Brain — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:35:55 -0800

Wordpress is easy to install. There are a variety of templates for it (some of them even look good).

I'm sure there are other reasonable options, but for your use, it doesn't sound like its really worth much effort evaluating them.

If you know how to create users in mySQL, I doubt it would take you more than 30 minutes to download WP and have it running.

By: sauril

sauril — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:06:35 -0800

Thanks, I'll check wordpress out.

By: camcgee

camcgee — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:06:45 -0800

Another vote for Wordpress.

By: eustatic

eustatic — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:09:41 -0800

wordpress seems nice. but for diversity's sake just wanted to drop

geeklog
drupal

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:16:19 -0800

I've played around with Textpattern and it seems quite nice. I don't think there are a lot of default built in templates, but there's a growing list of them at various sites (see Textgarden and Textpattern Resources.

By: sauril

sauril — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:36:30 -0800

Thanks for the quick responses.

I downloaded and installed wp in about 5 minutes. It'll do the job no problem.

By: charmston

charmston — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:31:17 -0800

I'll second textpattern. Steep learning curve, but it is powerful.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:08:07 -0800

No idea about this one, but I just saw it on digg, remembered this question, and thought I'd pass it on.

By: anildash

anildash — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:29:10 -0800

Most any host that lets you run PHP/MySQL will run Movable Type, though it's written in Perl. The big advantage over most tools mentioned above is that you can run an unlimited number of blogs on it (instead of reinstalling the app for each blog) and you can design templates and stuff in GoLive or Dreamweaver, even with the free tryouts that Adobe makes available.

(Disclaimer, I work with the team that makes MT.)

By: anildash

anildash — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:29:36 -0800

Oh, um, and you can do a lot with PHP and PHP plugins with it. Which is why this was a relevant answer. :)

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:15:20 -0800

We used TexPattern for our wedding site last year. Short setup and my wife had no problems.

By: madderhatter

madderhatter — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:13:35 -0800

Even though I use WP you could use a simple forum like phpBB or whatever. Assign everyone a login and keep all the misfits in the general population out of your business. Not only that but this way everyone could contribute and post up comments ... BBS style !

By: fjom

fjom — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:02:50 -0800

I use TextPattern.

This should be closed, shouldnt't it?