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\"blogging_platform.jpg\"Blogging has become a passion to lot of people these days (I can include myself). Technorati says a new blog appears every 2 seconds. And there are lot many novice blogger behind it. They will come across this question before they start a blog “which blogging platform to use?” <\/strong>
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The options are wide open and choice is yours!<\/p>\n

This article might not answer the question directly. However, I’d try to provide least information about most of blogging platforms that are available today either as a service or download.<\/p>\n

WordPress.org<\/strong><\/a>
\nWordPress.org is the best and well-known open source Blogging platform. It is widely used commonly by popular self-hosted blogs around the blogosphere. It runs with minimal setup and it requires just PHP\/ MySQL preferably in Apache. It rates high compared with other since it can be highly customized. In addition to this there are huge number of plugin authors and theme authors are there to help reduce bloggers effort. WordPress.org also has nice development community that ensures the WordPress core get better and better.<\/p>\n

Blogger<\/a><\/strong>
\nBlogger is a free one-push blog publishing platform. Most of the novice bloggers starts Blogging with Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Blogger in first place. The new blogger comes in with Widget support that eradicated the use of HTML for templates. Setting up a blog in Blogger is painless and easiest of anything else. You can customize Blogger to certain extend only since they are not an open source solution. There are few popular blogs that still runs on Blogger.<\/p>\n

WordPress.com<\/a><\/strong>
\nWordPress.com is a multi-user version variant of WordPress.org. WordPress.com have their own-hosted solution of newbie bloggers, who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a hosting space. WordPress.com comes in with neat option for a newbie. WordPress.com comes with space restrictions; in addition to that you can monetize your blog.<\/p>\n

Movable Type<\/a><\/strong>
\nMovable Type is a web blog publishing platform successfully developed by SixApart<\/a>. It is the one who invented Trackback feature in the first hand that was later devised by other blogging systems as well and now it is more-or-less a standard. Movable Type is written in Perl and supports most of the Database as backend. Movable Type is best suited for business use.<\/p>\n

Typepad<\/a><\/strong>
\nTypepad is a blogging service provided by SixApart and it is one of largest paid blogging service available now. Typepad is based on Movable Type and it shares most of its technical functions. Additionally, it also supports multi-user, mobile and photo blogging. Typepad is been successfully used by lot of professional writers.<\/p>\n

LiveJournal<\/a><\/strong>
\nLiveJournal is a CMS that allows you to express your self by publishing your private journal, your blog or your forum or any of a social entity. It is the best in town for writing life journals.<\/p>\n

Vox<\/a><\/strong>
\nVox is a personal blogging service. It’s all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about. Vox is good platform when it comes to multimedia blogging.<\/p>\n

Text Pattern<\/a><\/strong>
\nText Patter is a flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites. Blogs works fine as well. Text Pattern also has its own list of plugins and templates.<\/p>\n

Drupal<\/a><\/strong>
\nDrupal is a modular content management system and the blogging engine was initially indented for bulletin board system. Drupal is good for building online communities and those communities powers their blogging engine. It is written in PHP. It has a wide community support.<\/p>\n

Joomla<\/strong><\/a>
\nJoomla is truly a content management system that forked from Mambo, a pretty good open source content management system. Joomla has won the best open source content management system of the year 2006. Joomla has a decent blogging engine and other extension.<\/p>\n

Expression Engine<\/a><\/strong>
\npMachine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Expression Engine is not well know but it is a powerful and much extensible software that you may need to give a try. It is a complete content management system with much Blogging feature as well. In addition to Blogging module it comes with inbuilt gallery module. It is more suitable for heavy business blogs. Also the cost associated with it is high.<\/p>\n

Nucleus<\/a><\/strong>
\nNucleus is been around for sometime now and it is not much popular yet though. Nucleus is mature blogging software that comes with most of the required blogging features. Nucleus is also programmed in PHP and runs on MySQL backend.<\/p>\n

b2evolution<\/a><\/strong>
\nb2evloution was developed from the same original code that spawned WordPress, b2Evolution is written in PHP and licensed under GPL so is always free to use. It comes with lot of features that you may need to check, which includes antispam, skins, multi-blogs, users, authors, integrated stats, its own plugin framework etc. etc.<\/p>\n

TeraPad<\/strong><\/a>
\nTeraPad is hosted blogging solution which takes blogger beyond the blogging experience. TeraPad comes in with versatile blogging tools,\u00c2\u00a0 image gallery,\u00c2\u00a0 PayPal ready shopping cart, event calendar etc.\u00c2\u00a0 TeraPad places a its ad over the site which might annoy bloggers a little but may it is need for TeraPad to keep it service Free \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This is not a comprehensive list, I might have left out few of them with or without my knowledge. You can very well indicate them by your comments.<\/p>\n

Update (06\/17) : Mayank<\/a> has pointed out<\/a> two more additional blogging service. I have added an overview of TeraPad; Thanks Mayank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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