What blogging script does everyone use?

[RedCherry]

I'm thinking of starting a portal site, that has a blog on it, and I want to do it on a stand alone site, not on one of the free blogger sites.

What script does everyone use? I haven't a clue where to start, everything seems to lead me to back to the free blogging sites.

[Simon]

A lot of folks will recommend this to you...
http://wordpress.org/

It's the one I'm figuring out now. :)

[alessandro]

I use wordpress blog script on 2 domains and it's great :)

[walrus]

I'm thinking of starting a portal site, that has a blog on it, and I want to do it on a stand alone site, not on one of the free blogger sites.

What script does everyone use? I haven't a clue where to start, everything seems to lead me to back to the free blogging sites.
WordPress seems to definately be the adult bloggers choice script but if you are looking for something simple, SE friendly with RSS feeds there are any number of scripts that will work great. If I were to start over, I would probably take a close look at Boast Machine (http://www.boastology.com/).

[Ms Naughty]

I use Wordpress 2 on my blog but I've been playing around with Joomla just to see how it works. It's really quite massive in terms of what it can do. It has a blog component but it also has so many other bits that you could conceivably use it as a portal.

I just wish I knew more about PHP, I'd be making Joomla sites all over the place.

[walrus]

I use Wordpress 2 on my blog but I've been playing around with Joomla just to see how it works. It's really quite massive in terms of what it can do. It has a blog component but it also has so many other bits that you could conceivably use it as a portal.

I just wish I knew more about PHP, I'd be making Joomla sites all over the place.

I've been playing with Joomla on a couple projects and am really getting into it. I probably wouldn't use it for just a blog component mainly because it works counter-intuatively for me, for that purpose...or maybe it's just because it works backwards from my current blogging software. But if you want to build a community around your blog it's definately quite capable.

From a look and feel standpoint, the Joomla templates are pretty cool too. My blogging tools site is a Joomla site and I personally think the template rocks.

[RedCherry]

Thanks all, going to look at them. Thanks too whoever moved this thread, I feel like a doofus, I didn't even notice this had a blogging section, lol.

[Ms Naughty]

It's a very hush-hush, secret, shifty-eyed, special gadgets part of the board...
Psst. Would you like to buy an "O"? :D

[bunky2u]

I use drupal for http://www.strippedgalleries.net/ and http://www.deletedbrain.com/

you can get it here. http://drupal.org/ it's not just a blogging script but a content management system. Very easy to use.

[walrus]

Thanks all, going to look at them. Thanks too whoever moved this thread, I feel like a doofus, I didn't even notice this had a blogging section, lol.Oh, you mean there is more to this board than the blogging section? Where!:D

[ronnie]

Oh, you mean there is more to this board than the blogging section? Where!:D

LOL Blogging on the brain...:)

I use Movable Type for my blogs, love it.

ronnie

[u-Bob]

I use my own custom scripts, but if you want to start a portal with a blog, I recommend you check out www.cmsmatrix.org

[Cleo]

Movabletype here. Not the easiest to setup but has lots of plugins and features.

[kbbq]

I think i'm the only one that uses blogger.com and i've got a pretty complex site. The only thing that blogger.com can't do like WP can is the scheduling of posts. but it's a good start.

I don't like WP for the simple mod_rewrite thing it does to achieve SE friendly URLs. I just don't like it. *shrug*