b2evolution is a content and community management system written in

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and backed by a

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database. It is distributed as

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under the

GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the Four Freedoms (Free software), four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was th ...

. b2evolution originally started as a multi-user multi-

blog A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...

engine when François Planque forked b2evolution from version 0.6.1 of

b2/cafelog WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture ...

in 2003. A more widely known fork of b2/cafelog is

WordPress WordPress (WP or WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in hypertext preprocessor language and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database with supported HTTPS. Features include a plugin architecture ...

. b2evolution is available in web host

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as a "one click install" web app. Most of the early major releases were named after famous cities or particular places the project maintainer has visited and/or was inspired by. After version 5.0, the project began to emphasize online community and

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features and integration with

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sites, with the ability to automatically post new content to

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

. To highlight the software's ability to manage many types of content, its

s were renamed to "collections". b2evolution 5.0 was rapidly adopted, becoming the most popular version, but overall b2evolution usage is declining relative to competitors WordPress and

Drupal Drupal () is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide ...

. Currently, it is installed on less than 0.1% of web sites.

Main Features

Known primarily for its multi-blog capabilities, b2evolution also includes "all the features of traditional blog tools" like file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple domain support, detailed user permissions, and W3C standards compliance. It installs on almost any

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(

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/ MariaDB,

) server. The software will run on IIS using

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, but database servers other than MySQL and MariaDB are not supported. Configuration is handled through the installer or administrative back-end. In addition to its ability to manage multiple blogs, b2evolution supports multiple users and admins under a single installation without the need of external plugins. b2evolution also supports numerous third-party plugins. These include text format extensions enabling Textile, Auto-P, Greymatter,

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, Texturize,

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, and graphic

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. Also, plugins which facilitate full integration with third party tools such as Gallery 2,

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, and

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are available. Other features include community-wide

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filters, in which many b2evolution sites aggregate and tag spammer

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into a central blacklist for the benefit of all b2evolution blogs, a button to declare "comment spam bankruptcy"—which deletes all comments across an entire b2evolution installation, a fully skinnable interface, strong

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features including automatic redirection of renamed articles and insertion of canonical link tags, url shortening, localization into a dozen language packs, and a fully exposed

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for plugin developers to add new functionality. b2evolution's code is

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into the blog application itself and a framework called EvoCore. EvoCore can be used on its own to build non-blog web applications.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://b2evolution.net/
GitHub repositoryPHPBuilder article on b2evolutionAn interview with François Planque
Free content management systems Blog software Free software programmed in PHP Software forks

Main Features

See also

References

External links