WordPress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Version : 3.8.1
Release Date : 23-01-2014
Demo Support 15.93 MB
Rating: (4.80 Out of 5) from 11973 Votes.
174 Reviews. 251914 Views
Open Blog
Open Blog is a free and open source blogging platform built using the CodeIgniter PHP framework.
It provides users with a very powerful yet easy to use interface which makes blogging simple and enjoyable.
Version : 1.2.1
Demo Support 4.81 MB
Rating: (4.34 Out of 5) from 314 Votes.
11 Reviews. 40348 Views
Dotclear
Dotclear is an open-source web publishing software created in 2002 by Olivier Meunier. A one man's project at first, Dotclear soon gathered a team comprising different personalities with various backgrounds.
The project's purpose is to provide a user-friendly tool allowing anyone to publish on the web, regardless of their technical skills.
Version : 2.6.2
Release Date : 20-01-2014
Demo Support 4.75 MB
Rating: (4.67 Out of 5) from 125 Votes.
0 Reviews. 36544 Views
Serendipity
Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications.
Version : 1.7.8
Release Date : 09-02-2014
Demo Support 16.62 MB
Rating: (4.49 Out of 5) from 130 Votes.
5 Reviews. 36901 Views
b2evolution
b2evolution is an advanced weblog tool, i-e software allowing you to run your own blogs, newsfeeds or even photo stream.
b2evolution is a medium scale CMS centered around the Blog concept, fully featured with multiple blogs, content/presentation separation, full user management, full internationalization (i18n), workflow management... and extending towards features normally provided by Wikis, Trackers or hierarchy driven CMSes.
Version : 5.0.8
Release Date : 01-03-2014
Demo Support 19.60 MB
Rating: (4.29 Out of 5) from 116 Votes.
4 Reviews. 51153 Views
Textpattern
Textpattern is a web application designed to help overcome the hurdles to publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages.
Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. It is both free and open source.
Version : 4.5.5
Release Date : 04-10-2013
Demo Support 2.74 MB
Rating: (4.74 Out of 5) from 72 Votes.
4 Reviews. 34340 Views
LifeType
LifeType supports multiple blogs and users, media management, generation of standard content, clean URLs and support for subdomains. LifeType is released under the GPL license, and requires PHP and MySQL to work.
Version : 1.2.12
Demo Support 8.87 MB
Rating: (3.98 Out of 5) from 49 Votes.
0 Reviews. 43591 Views
Pixie
Pixie is a free, open source web application that will help quickly create your own website. Many people refer to this type of software as a "content management system (cms)", we prefer to call it as Small, Simple, Site Maker.
Version : 1.04
Demo Support 2.28 MB
Rating: (4.22 Out of 5) from 46 Votes.
2 Reviews. 28017 Views
Nucleus
Nucleus CMS is a flexible and easy to install content management system, aka blog software. It helps you to publish a website and lets writers do what they are best at: writing items or articles, without having to worry about formatting and markup.
Version : 3.65
Release Date : 31-03-2013
Demo Support 1.96 MB
Rating: (4.31 Out of 5) from 42 Votes.
2 Reviews. 32554 Views
Chyrp
Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is powered by PHP and has very powerful theme and extension engines, so you can personalize it however you want.
The code is well-documented, and it has a very strong structure that's loosely based on the MVC design pattern.
Version : 2.5
Release Date : 31-12-2013
Demo Support 2.68 MB
Rating: (4.58 Out of 5) from 38 Votes.
1 Reviews. 35841 Views
Nibbleblog
Nibbleblog Easy, fast and free CMS Blog
The database used is based on XML files and this way it is not necessary to use MySQL or similar DBMS.
Version : 4.0.2
Release Date : 07-03-2014
Demo Support 1.83 MB
Rating: (4.81 Out of 5) from 31 Votes.
1 Reviews. 7094 Views
Ghost
Ghost is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time making your blog work and more time blogging.
Version : 0.4.1
Release Date : 30-01-2014
Demo Support 3.97 MB
Rating: (4.17 Out of 5) from 35 Votes.
1 Reviews. 3615 Views
eggBlog
eggBlog is the free php & mysql blog software package, allowing you to create your own online website, journal or weblog (blog) using your own web-space.
Version : 4.1.2
Demo Support 2.03 MB
Rating: (4.21 Out of 5) from 34 Votes.
0 Reviews. 28033 Views
PivotX
PivotX is free software to help you maintain dynamic sites such as weblogs, online journals and other frequently updated websites in general. It's written in PHP and uses MySQL or flat files as a database.
PivotX is also a great tool to maintain more complex websites as well. Its powerful core and flexible template system make it easy for developers to adjust and extend. Whether you want an easy-to-use, robust blogging tool or are looking to push things to the max - PivotX offers the best of both worlds.
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
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