Big IDEA

Before Wordpress

17 August 2004

Kevin compares Wordpress and Blog:CMS. (Kevin, how about enabling comments? :)) While you can run multiple blogs with Wordpress, you have to manually copy and edit a config file and prepend some text to the database table name to manage it. It’s not difficult, but the fact that you have to do this tells you Wordpress wasn’t designed to run a blog farm.

But we can find free blogging software that does support multiple blogs and authors in a cousin (sibling?) of Wordpress. B2 is the parent of both Wordpress and b2evolution. Here are just a few features offered by the latter:

• Multiple blogs support
• Multiple categories and sub-categories
• evoSkins: evolution blog skins: change the look & feel of your blog in a snap!
• Display multiple blogs on same page. For example, you can use one specific blog as your blogroll and display it grouped by category…
• Assign multiple categories to each post
• Cross post across multiple categories and multiple blogs
• Draft status: hide posts until you want to publish them
• Private/Protected status: hide posts from non identified members
• Improved text editor (honors Textile, BBCode, HTML, smilies

So, like Kevin says, options are nice!