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Geeklog
Original author(s)Jason Whittenburg [1]
Stable release
1.6.1 / November 22, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-11-22)
Operating systemCross-platform
PlatformPHP
TypeWeblog software
LicenseGNU General Public License version 2[2]
Websitewww.geeklog.net

Geeklog is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for content management. It has many features including a workflow[needs to be explained], a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.[4]

Geeklog is included with the well-known web hosting software package Fantastico (web hosting), although installing Geeklog via Fantastico is not supported by the Geeklog project. needs citations.


Features[change | change source]

Geeklog has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.


Multi-blogging[change | change source]

WordPress supports one weblog per installation, although multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables.

WordPress Multi-User (WordPress MU, or just WPMU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. WordPress MU makes it possible for anyone with a website to host their own blogging community, control, and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. WordPress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.

Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress MU would be merged with WordPress as part of a future release (version 3.0).[5]

Lyceum is another enterprise-edition of WordPress. Unlike WordPress MU, Lyceum stores all of its information in a set number of database tables. Notable communities that use Lyceum are TeachFor.Us[6] (Teach For America teachers' blogs), BodyBlogs and the Hopkins Blogs.

In 2008 Andy Peatling joined Automattic to continue his work on BuddyPress - a plug-in extension of WPMU that is adding additional community features to WordPress.[7]


See also[change | change source]

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ http://wiki.geeklog.net/index.php/Who_made_Geeklog%3F
  2. ↑ http://wiki.geeklog.net/index.php/Who_made_Geeklog%3F
  3. ↑ http://wiki.geeklog.net/index.php/Who_made_Geeklog%3F
  4. ↑ "WordPress Usage Statistics".
  5. ↑ http://onemansblog.com/2009/07/07/matt-mullenweg’s-state-of-the-word-wordcamp-san-francisco-2009/ Video of Matt Mullenweg speaking at WordCamp San Franscisco 2009
  6. ↑ TeachFor.Us » TeachFor.Us News » Thanks are in order
  7. ↑ Backing BuddyPress by Matt Mullenweg March 4th, 2008

External links[change | change source]


Category:Open source content management systems Category:PHP programming language Category:Blog software Category:Internet services supporting OpenID Category:Content management systems Category:Website management Category:Free software programmed in PHP


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