Does anyone know aboutb a good free blog?

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Does anyone know aboutb a good free blog?

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Hi,

I am looking for an open source free Blog that is really easy to install on an existing php mysql site. I am relatively new to this... a beginner so ease of install is essential...

It is for a corporate site so one that doesn't have banner ads or any garbage on it would be great...

Any ideas?

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I'd go for wordpress. 5-minute install
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I (for now) have a WordPress blog too and if you're only interested in using a blog for basic blogging and never have any intention to actually modify it then go with WordPress...otherwise if you plan on doing things like customizing the templates and such avoid it like the plague.
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what's the problem with customizing the templates?
I have my grief with wordpress, but two things it does very well - custom templates and plugins.
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It does whacky things to quotes on my blog among other characters for one. I've seen obscene things like a calling a function that is located in a different file...and does nothing more then echo. The list goes on and on...though I'm closing in on the ability to go live with my own blog eventually. :)
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what do quotes have to do with templates...? I've never heard/seen anything like that, and I've visited perhaps thousands of wordpress blogs over the years.
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You could go crazy and actually write your own. Oh wait...people don't do that anymore.
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jackpf wrote:You could go crazy and actually write your own. Oh wait...people don't do that anymore.
Writing something with the functionality of Wordpress is a lot of work. Why bother when you can just use Wordpress instead?
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Because you get to say "I wrote that myself" and be proud :)

Plus, you can get it to do exactly what you want it to do. The amount of people who post on here saying "I tried to edit this * software, but now it won't work".

Well, if they just learned php and wrote it themselves in the first place, they wouldn't have to unsuccessfully modify it later on...

I guess most people just don't have the will though.
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jackpf wrote:I guess most people just don't have the will though.
more probably the time
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what do quotes have to do with templates...? I've never heard/seen anything like that, and I've visited perhaps thousands of wordpress blogs over the years.
I agree...it sounds like a characterset issue not something specific to WordPress. Although WP is one of the biggest hacks for software I have ever seen, maybe second only to SugarCRM. :P
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