When creating a blog, I faced the choice of how and where to run it. Despite the fact that blogs were predicted to quickly decline in popularity, they stayed afloat (hello from 2015, everything happened as predicted). Moreover, they became the most popular type of web page. More and more people want to express their thoughts, share them with others, and express their creative emotions.
So what is still better to choose?
For WordPress engine there is simply a huge number of plugins, extensions, updates, and similar very useful things. WordPress owes much of its popularity to its 3-step installation. The only thing you’ll need to do is create a database, and then everything is simple: create a configuration file, or rather just change its values to yours. There are also many official Runet resources dedicated to WordPress.
There is simply a sea of themes made for this engine, that is, ready-made designs that are enough to just upload into the designs folder and that’s it, you have a different design. It also has a huge number of plugins, which, like themes by the way, can be installed directly from the admin panel.
Another very important point is that WordPress is not only a blog, but also all other sites of any type from corporate portals and online stores to landing pages and placeholders.
Drupal – is the next most popular blog engine. Here installation is not so simple, although not complicated at all. It installs basically like a regular CMS. This system has a very complex tree structure of publications that not every beginner can understand. Also, it should be mentioned that this engine can serve not only as a blog, but as a site of any functionality depending on connected modules.
This is definitely not a beginner’s choice, since even an experienced webmaster will not immediately figure out the many functions and settings of this engine. But an undeniable plus is the extensibility of Drupal; on it you can do everything you could ever want to do, it’s not even quite a CMS, rather a framework with a graphical interface.
Textpattern – this engine is little known in Runet, but it has a fairly original system of execution and ideas in principle. Here you will not find free themes that can be downloaded and installed in one click. Everything will have to be done by hand. But this engine has a big privilege: it implements its own tag system. Convenient for those who don’t want to know PHP but want to configure design themselves.
B2evolution – related project with WordPress, and it can be characterized as an analog of WordPress MU, multi-blogging is supported here too.
MovableType – the first thing you notice in this engine is that it is written in Perl. This language is native to Linux systems. It also allows managing an unlimited number of blogs in a single installation.
