Wordpress
Host and run your own blog


WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

WordPress started as just a blogging systems, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And tech chops.)

Last Updated 21 June 2010
Win 98/ME/2000/XP
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b2evolution
Powerful blog tool for your web site

b2evolution is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website.

It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions...
Not to mention third party plug-ins!

Plus, it's free, open-source (GPL), it runs on virtually any webserver featuring PHP+MySQL and it's available in many languages

Last Updated 15 December 2009
Win 98/ME/2000/XP
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Microsoft Windows Live Writer
Compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces

Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.

Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone.

Writer has lots of features which we hope make for a better blogging experience. Some of the ones we are most excited about include:
WYSIWYG Blog Authoring
Photo Publishing - Writer makes inserting, customizing, and uploading photos to your blog a snap.
Map Publishing - insert a Windows Live Local map directly into a post.
Writer SDK - extend the capabilities of Writer to publish additional content types.
Compatibility - works with other weblogs including Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress (and many others).

Note:
Writer is part of Windows Live Essentials, which includes free
programs for photos, movies, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging, family safety, and more. Get Writer or get them all—they're free!

Win XP/Vista/7
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ScribeFire

ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, Google Chrome Web browser, and Apple Safari Web browser that allows you to easily post to all of your blogs.

What’s new in this build?
“Blog This” option in the context menu (Firefox and Safari only) transfers the currently selected text, link, or image into the editor for easy blogging.
Tag autocompletion. Any tags you’ve used in your last 20-30 posts will be used for autocomplete.

Custom Fields (Wordpress only). Custom fields have been fully implemented, complete with autocomplete for field keys.

Better Drupal and Movable Type support. Category selection works now, and publishing to a Movable Type blog has been cleaned up and more fully tested.
A bug causing linebreaks to be lost has been fixed.
If you’re running a Firefox 4.0 beta and you open ScribeFire in a tab, that tab will be an App tab.

Win 2000/NT/XP/Vista/7
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Zoundry Raven
Next generation WYSIWYG blog editor

Zoundry Raven™ is our next generation WYSIWYG blog editor that makes posting to your blogs easier and faster. It's as easy to use as a word processor, plus we include simple tools to add links, tags, photos, music and video files, and more. Features
Tabbed WYSIWYG Editing

We hide powerful XHTML editing behind our intuitive UI so you can be sure that what you create is what others will see online.
Multiple Blogs Made Easy

Do you have multiple blogs for different audiences? We make it easy to write and publish to separate blogs all with one editor.
Improved Content Management

With our powerful indexer, you can browse all of your previous posts across all of your blogs by tags, links, or images.
Portable Application

Install Raven as a Portable Application on your flash/thumb drive. We'll stay out of your Windows registry and let you take your Blogging on the road.

Features:
Tabbed true WYSIWYG Editing
Improved content management
Manage multiple media storage services
Manage multiple blogs offline
Raven2Go: Portable Application support
WordPress 2.2+ Page & Tag support

Win 2000/XP
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Blog

Blog is an automatic web log program which allows you to update your site easily without the hassles of HTML editing while maintaining a uniform, template driven design of your pages.

You simply set Blog up with the necessary information for logging into your site via FTP, define a template to specify the look for your page and then type in your entries in the main Blog window and click Publish and Blog does the rest.

If you are experienced with HTML, you can completely customize the templates to match your site design.

Win 98/Me/2000/XP
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w.bloggar

w.bloggar provides a Windows desktop interface to post your blogs to various online blog services, including Blogger, b2, MovableType, Nucleus, BigBlogTool, BlogWorks XML, Blogalia, Drupal blogs and custom server locations.

You can use a word processor like interface to create your blog entries, add pictures, links and more and even preview the post before uploading it. w.bloggar also supports import of text files, color coded html tags, spell checking, posting to multiple blogs and much more.

Win 98/Me/2000/XP
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BlogBridge
RSS feed reader

BlogBridge is a Java based RSS reader than finds blog items based on keyword input and category topic. You can also subscribe to any RSS feed by adding the URL to the list.

The program offers an attractive and easy-to-use interface with personal star ratings, weekly status display and collapsible article headlines. It includes some unique features like the option to generate a SmartFeed based on specific keywords, which can be aggregated from your own feeds or various online resources.

BlogBridge supports feed specific display settings and themes, feed collections (guides), OPML import, as well as custom feed tags, which can optionally be shared with others.

The program also integrates with an optional online service that lets you access your feeds from any browser over the Internet.

Last Updated 02 January 2010
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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WordPress Theme Switcher Reloaded
WordPress Plugins

WordPress Theme Switcher Reloaded is an updated version of the venerable Theme Switcher by Ryan Boren, and Theme Switcher Widget by Jared Bangs. This plugin was sponsored by Themebot and coded by kingler.

Features:
Opens themes extremely fast / less load on the server (it would sometimes take 30 seconds or more to load a theme with the old theme switcher plugin. Now it only takes a second or two every time.) This version is ideal for WordPress theme developers who want to host their own theme demos or for anyone who wants to reduce load time and load on the server.
Support for hosting thousands of themes due to increased efficiency.
Comes with Widget to add theme switcher to sidebar without modifying code on themes.
Configuration options for theme list or theme drop-down. Also, you have a choice to display long names (theme name from stylesheet) or short names (theme name from directory) in the widget.
Supports existing hooks for calling theme switcher via code for themes that already use the themeswitcher hook (although using the widget is preferable.)
Themes are selected using the unique theme directory name rather than the theme name in the stylesheet (no more broken theme URLs when there are duplicate theme names).
WordPress themes can now be checked for Valid XTHML and CSS with the theme switcher URL.
Support for English, Simplified Chinese, Italian and Esperanto.

Win 200/XP/Vista/7
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tkblog

Standalone, cross-platform blogging application, no third party hosting required. running your own server is not required. php, perl, mysql is not required.

Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7
Mac
Linux
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twhirl
Desktop Twitter client

twhirl is a Twitter client, written in Adobe AIR, that enables you to manage multiple Twitter accounts from your desktop. You can view and post tweets (with spell checking), read direct messages, get notified of new messages, manage your followers and more.

The program also allows you to post images via TwitPic and can automatically shorten your URLs via a variety of services.

Other features include the ability to search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches, as well as support for cross-posting to Jaiku, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and other sites.

twhirl supports multiple Twitter accounts and also laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts.

Requires: Adobe AIR

Last Updated 02 January 2010
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7
Mac
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blogBuddy

BlogBuddy is a small tool that will post new blog entries to our Blogger account or other weblogs which implement the Blogger API.
You can apply basic formatting, add links and even have the program automatically spell check the post. Type your post, click a button and you`re done. Very easy to use. Supports proxy connections and can run in the system tray.
It requires a free account at blogger.com or other weblog that uses the Blogger API.

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
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Thingamablog
Create your own blog & RSS Reader

Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.

Thingamablog allows you to:
Set up a blog in minutes via an intuitive wizard
Maintain multiple blogs
Effortlessly manage thousands of entries
Dynamically update blog content
Write entries offline (Dialup users)
Publish your blog with a single click
Publish remotely to your blog via email
Read news with an integrated feed reader
Make posts from your favorite feeds
Create a unique layout with customizable templates
Import entries from RSS/Atom feeds
Set up flexible archiving options
Organize your entries by category or date
Save entries as drafts
Define your own custom template tags
Syndicate your blog via an RSS or Atom feed
Ping services like weblogs.com, BlogRolling, and Blo.gs
And much more...

Last Updated 02 January 2010
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Linux
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Bleezer blogging software
Cross-platform blogging software

Bleezer is a powerful blogging client. And it's free.

Why use Bleezer to blog?
Blog from anywhere. Work on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Work with any blogging service. As many as you want, even Blogger.
WYSIWYG editing. Edit your posts as they will actually appear.
Image upload. Images will automatically be uploaded to your server.
Category support. Support for multiple categories.
Add tags for any tag service. Technorati, del.icio.us, or anything else.
Create custom markup. Define your own key combinations for custom HTML markup.
Spell check. Ensure everything is speeled spelled ok.
Advertise. Ping Technorati, weblogs.com, ping-o-matic, Pingoat, or any other service.
Work online or offline. Compose posts offline and post them when you want to.
Did we mention Bleezer is free.

Last Updated 11 August 2009
Win 2000/XP
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
Linux/GNU
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