Textpattern Light-Weight Blog Engine CMS

textpattern blog engine

textpattern blog engine


Textpattern (http://www.textpattern.com/) is another lightweight blog engine that is compatible with plug-ins. Its main goal is to be a general-purpose CMS system.

Textpattern supports multi-lingual blogging via UTF-8. Its feature-richness and easy administration makes it a very strong competitor to WordPress. Textpattern is developed by Dean Allen and is available on the market since early 2001.

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Neuclues CMS

nucleus cms

nucleus cms


Nucleus CMS (http://nucleuscms.org/) is also a popular content management system. It is actually more than a blog engine. Nucleus supports a multi-lingual and multi-author blogging environment.

Some other extensive features are the availability of a huge number of templates and plug-ins, an easy administration panel, easy syndication support, etc. Nucleus exposes a rich set of APIs to extend it via plug-ins. Administration of Nucleus is more complicated than that of other
blog engines.

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B2Evolution

b2evolution multi-blogging

b2evolution multi-blogging


One of the greatest features offered by b2evolution (http://b2evolution.net/) is multi-user blogging, which is also present in WordPress via WordPress MU.

This means you can host a single blog, but it can be used by multiple users as separate entities. b2evoution features auto-installation with minimum hassle. It’s a feature-rich blog engine. One of the greatest drawbacks of b2evolution is the lack of themes and plug-ins. Its administration panel is rich but very confusing. It is comparatively heavier than WordPress.

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