Best current community blog software?

June 24, 2007 11:48 AM

Wanted: latest advice and software recommendations for starting a community blog.

I'm looking to start my own community blog. Any general tips or recommendations on what blogging software to use? Someone asked a similar question in 2005, do those recommendations still hold today?

I want:
*any registered user to be able to post & comment
*new user registration/permission setting to be automated/not require individual approval or tinkering
*to not program

On the small chance I get a lot of active users/posters, any advice on how to handle the growing pains?

posted by scrumtralescent to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Drupal. I run a community site with 800+ users and we've never had a single problem with Drupal.

No programming required.
posted by unixrat at 12:07 PM on June 24, 2007

wordpress you can set it to let new users be authors
posted by DJWeezy at 12:40 PM on June 24, 2007

What DJWeezy said. With WP there are multiple levels of security so some can be Admins, others just Authors. I believe with the newest version you can also sort by Author if you wanted to read all his/her posts.
posted by deern the headlice at 3:15 PM on June 24, 2007

I checked out wordpress, but the users say there is no way to let anyone post, you have to add them individually to your blog.

Drupal looks like it might do the trick, though.
posted by scrumtralescent at 7:56 AM on June 25, 2007