The Best Weblog Platforms Reviewed in a Comparison Chart

September 17th, 2008 in  Articles

Choose a Blog Platform is very difficult especially if you are new to blogging systems. There are many important things to know when you choose a blog system. I think you want a blog system that fit your needs.

You could prefer a blog engine than another when it is more user friendly or when it has a template system more performant. You can also choose a platform for its stability or for its developers communities.

When you choose a blog system you can ask the questions:”Is this system secure?”, “Is it a mature project?”.

In this simply Comparison Chart, you can see how many valid Blog Systems are developed and how they works.

WordPress It has the largest communities of developers and users. It has many plugins to extend it and use it as very professional CMS. It is very simple to use and its code is very clean. It is used by many bloggers for its stability and possibilities to extend.

MovableType It has built-in support for multiple blogs running in one installation. It has also a good plugin support and it is largely used by High Traffic weblogs. The most important weblogs are created using this solid platform for Blogs.

TextPattern It is a good choice for only a simple blog but it requires that you learn Textile Markup Language. If you want a WYSIWYG editor, you have to install it as plugin, infact TextPattern don’t has a built-in WYSIWYG editor and it isn’t good for Novice Bloggers.

B2evolution I think this is the best blogging software for beginners users. It has many built-in features such as Stats and WYSIWYG editor. It has also a good community support and its code is very clean.

Serendipity It is very simple to install and it is user-friendly. It has a threaded commenting feature and uses the High-Performance Smarty Templating System as Template Engine. The use of Smarty is a good choice for Designer that can take the best support developing Serendipity’s Themes.

Pixie Pixie is a small CMS for fast creation of blogs. It is very simple to use and it has a beautiful backend. It isn’t a mature platform, but I think that it is a nice platform for beginners. Pixie uses the latest web standards so whatever site you build, it’s accessible to all your visitors and is search engine friendly.

Snews It is the smallest CMS for Blogs. It runs in only one PHP file. Designing a theme for this platform is very easy. You can read more about theme making here.