Weblog software that are also sometimes known as blog softwares are nothing but a brief category of software that are geared up with a specialized form of Content Management Systems. These systems are specially designed in order to create and have a proper maintenance of weblogs.

The fact is that a lot of blog software applications are available for users. The users can avail their facility by easily downloading and installing these applications on their own systems. These applications are also geared up with a lot of licenses that are used by user hosted weblog software. A lot of them are available at free of cost and also in the form of open-source that can be used, modified, and redistributed freely. These all comes under the category of free-software and open-source licenses.

Apart from theses kind of applications, a lot of other softwares are also available that are known as proprietary software that may be licensed for a fee. These may also have versions available free of charge.

Apart from these blog softwares, a lot of other applications are offered only through their developers' hosts. It depends on them whether they want to give them either free of charge or for a fee.

These type of applications are mainly geared up with hosting service for the published blog itself. But is it not standard as a lot of them offer the option of using this hosted software to update a blog published

Features

  • Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.

  • Body, that forms the main content of the whole text.

  • Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article.

  • When was the post published? Date? Time?

A blog entry is geared up with:

  • Comments : readers have all the rights to post comments!

  • Categories

  • Links to other sites that refer to the entry

Some of the software packages are offered as free and open source software are:

  • Apache Roller (Java-based)

  • b2evolution (PHP/MySQL)

  • blosxom (Perl)

  • byteflow (Python/Django)

  • DotNetNuke (C#/ASP.NET)

  • Dotclear (PHP/MySQL)

  • Drupal (PHP/MySQL)

  • Frog CMS (PHP/MySQL)

  • Elgg (Apache, MySQL, and PHP)

  • Habari (PHP/MySQL,SQLite,PostgreSQL)