B2evolution

b2evolution is offered without any charge and gets distributed by the GNU General Public License. Many of the biggest releases of b2evolution have been named after the popular cities or particular locales.

Since this script is widely famous for its offer of multi-blog capabilities, b2evolution is also laced with the entire features of traditional blog tools such as file and photo management, advanced skinning, multiple domain support, detailed user permissions and W3C standards compliance. It is much friendly, which is why it easily installs on any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Through the installer or the administrative back-end, the whole configuration is done.

Apart from its capability of managing the multiple blogs, b2evolution is much supportive for multiple users and multiple admin under a single installation process leaving the need of installing more external plug-ins. This script appears much supportive for a number of other third party plug-ins as well including the text format extensions enabling Textile, Auto-P, Greymatter, BB Code, Texturize, LaTeX and graphic smilies. It also supports the plug-ins facilitating full integration with third party tools like the ones – Gallery 2, YouTube and Digg.

b2evolution carries other features as well such as a community-wide spam filter where a number of b2evolution sites amass and tag spammer IPs into a central blacklist to provide the benefits to the whole community of b2evolution blogs. In addition to the above features, it consists of a fully skinnable interface, localization into a dozen language packs; and a fully exposed API for plugin developers so that they can add new functionality.