Features

What is Blogmer?

Blogmer is an Open Source blog package developed in PHP and using the popular MySQL database back-end to store data. Unlike other popular blog systems, Blogmer does not strive to have as many features as possible, but to be one of the easiest and most usable blog packages, limiting the basic feature set to only the essential. Blogmer is pure blogging software.

Blogmer is an ideal solution for small to medium-sized websites which require an easy to use blog without the bloat, that produces standards compliant output, is secure and easily configurable.

Special Characteristics

  • Freeware
    Blogmer can be obtained completely free without having to pay any fees for support, future and development versions, etc.
  • Freedom
    Blogmer is developed as Open Source software, anyone can help develop it and write additional features, templates, etc.

Feature list

The features published in this list are only the main features. Blogmer contains many smaller but useful features which are not listed on this page.

General Features

  • Powerful blog search engine
  • Search engine friendly URL's
  • Nice clean url
  • Light and compact
  • Contain all essential features required for blog
  • Calendar with active days highlited
  • Archive browsing by day, month and year
  • Search for articles in archive.

Member Features

  • Unlimited number of members possible
  • Each member has his/her own personal profile page
  • Secure login and registration

Administration Interface

  • Set various configuration options
  • Create/edit/delete comments, categories, posts and pages
  • Edit/delete members
  • Installing Blogmer
    Very easy to install. There are two ways to install automatic and manual install.Read Documentaion for more.
  • WYSIWYG Editor
    Enchanced 'what you see is what you editor'.
  • Theme support -
    Maintain themes easily. Installing themes are never so easy.
  • Instant Publishing -
    When users post entries or comments, they appear instantly on their blogs.
  • Create new blog,page,user in seconds
  • Provide wide range of blog settings
  • and much, much more...

Access Control

  • Four levels: guests, members and administrators
  • Disable guest access to entire blog, member profiles and/or contact information
  • E-mail or admin based user activation

Coding & Technical

  • Seperated HTML templates from PHP code
  • Support for most ISO and other character sets (no Unicode)
  • Supports Gzip output compression.(By default off)
  • Developed with PHP's E_ALL error reporting level (by default 0)
  • Works within PHP's default memory_limit (8 MB)
  • Limited size on server (< 800 KB)

So, what does Blogmer not have?

The following features were deliberately not implemented in the light Blogmer 1.0 beat blog solution. However, some of these features are planned for Blogmer 2.

  • RSS
  • Comments Captcha
  • Spam Guard
  • MultiLanguage Support.
  • Future scheduled posts.
  • Blogroll section

Should you require any of these features, we suggest try google.

Happy with what you see? Now, you can go on downloading your free Blogmer copy!