Comments on: Adieu, Mambo: CDM Seeks New Blogging Platform

By: Isotlysteency

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By: Symbiotic

Symbiotic — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:57:16 +0000

Is arguably one of the most extensible, but I haven’t had much of a chance to dig in. But it may be worth investigating…

By: funnelbc

funnelbc — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:11:44 +0000

I used to use PostNuke, which convinced me of the value of hand coding. Then I went to movable type. I’ve since not looked back.

If you setup your authentication, spam isn’t really a problem either. My site never has any problem with comment spammers. (once in a year and a half)

Movable Type has got a slick interface and really easily allows management of styles, uploading content via http upload (very handy if you’re behind a restrictive firewall - as I am at work).

It’s relatively easy to style, and if you pay for a full copy you can dedicated support.

I’ve heard goodthings about wordpress, and was going to give it a go, but now ive learnt how to customize movable type im kinda going to sit with it for a while. :roll

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:35:21 +0000

after trying most of the ones mentioned here and others (PHP-Nuke, Geeklog, Nucleus) (Drupal makes a good effort to rock, just falls short in a few areas), I would pick Wordpress as the most customizable engine.
Also important to me is how it fails, like if it chokes on some code I stuck in the sidebar. Wordpress seems to fail much more gracefully than the others.
No issues with Safari.
Easy to post media.
Best user community out of them all as well.
I haven’t built a forum directly in to WP yet, just have it running alongside, linked to from the main news page. I’m working on getting stuff like ‘recent forum posts’, ‘active topics’ etc from phpBB into WP pages.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:27:30 +0000

hi peter. i use drupal (www.drupal.org) that covers most points of your wishlist. in near future i will switch samplepoolz also to the drupalplattform (which is using postnuke at this moment). take a look at drupal.
greetz
marc

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:29:09 +0000

Wordpress will cover most of your bases….

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:17:51 +0000

Wordpress is great… use it allready…
For bigger sites…

Typo3
Plone

So for now i’ll just have one of the 3 depending o the site to develop…

But i do share every pain you got from Mambo on every site i developed with it…

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:07:59 +0000

Easy to configure, easy to manage… and very very powerful.

Oh yeah, it has a vibrant developer community too.

http://www.textpattern.com

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:09:10 +0000

I use WordPress for my indifferently maintained web presence and it works very well.

The biggest plus was that it was easy to install on my rented webspace. There are plenty of site templates and plugins to use and add to your specific needs.

It works better with firefox than safari for editing and admin.

Another alternative Userland Manila if you have your own server - though there are hosting packages. Reliable, modifiable and good for literally 100s of sites.

Theo den Brinker

By: vallen

vallen — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:39:02 +0000

Wait, my comment above, I don’t remember posting it that way. Was it edited or am I losing my mind?

Anyway, I forgot to mention this earlier, but A List Apart and Odeo are two examples of Rails-powered sites. If you wish to use your own CMS, it would be very easy for any Ruby programmer to create. Rails is a very efficient framework to work with.

I would definitely recommend using LightTPD over Apache. TextDrive offers LightTPD and Rails support, and I hear that they’re excellent. (I’m not affiliated with them in any way, before you think it. :] I’m just evangelizing).

Best
_VA