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Blogging Platforms

Posted by Majik • 12/21/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, hosting, platforms

I've been considering creating another blog, and I was curious, which blogging platform do you use and why? Which ones are the best?

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12/21/07

seithman

I've been using Movable Type because, when I originally got my own webhosting, that was the software my hosting provider offered to set up for new users. I've come to like it ever since, and have even gone through two upgrades with it. (I'm actually looking at another upgrade to move me onto the new 4.0 version.)

I've played around with WordPress, but don't like it as much, personally. Also, WordPress has a couple known (and last I checked, unresolved) security issues. In fact, we're pretty sure that the WordPress installation I had was how someone managed to hack the site it was installed on, replacing even the content which wasn't a part of the actual blog.

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  techfun
  
  My company has a paid blog ( www.businessofvideo.com ) affiliated with our magazine, Streaming Media. It's hosted on Type Pad which is Movable Type driven. We considered bringing it in-house like out formerly Blogger and WP.com hosted blogs, but after installing and playing with Movable Type I decided I didn't want to support it so we left it at Type Pad.
2. 12/21/07
  
  techfun
  
  You know of unpatched security issues with WP 2.3.1 - the current release? Please share!
12/21/07

libdrone

well at least the first post didn't begin the usual, endless and ultimately irresolvable Blogger vs WP argument . Why do you like Movable Type? (we get lots of talk about WP but I haven't seen much about MT on blogcatalog)

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12/21/07

NicoleB

I did like wordpress a lot, but since I have my own domain, I switched yo b2evolution.
You can have Multiple blogs, even a collective blog and various other good things.
I would still use wordpress again at any given time, but b2 just coped better at the switch.
It also offers with the newest (and ver stable) version a photoblog. It has a lot of neat plugins, makes the use of widgets easy, blablabla
I love it, alright?

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12/21/07

Majik

Are there any free platforms that allow html other than blogger?

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1. 12/21/07
  
  NicoleB
  
  What exactly are you looking for?
  I think that most allow html...