LifeType

LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation.

Writing articles is comfortable with the included state of the art WYSIWYG editor. Adding pictures and sound files (for Podcasting) is just a matter of browse and click.

The Dashboard provides you with all the information you need every time you log in. Recent articles, comments and trackback as well as brief statistics get you updated about your blog immediately.

Features:

User Friendly Interface
Writing articles is comfortable with the included state of the art WYSIWYG editor. Adding pictures and sound files (for Podcasting) is just a matter of browse and click.

The Dashboard provides you with all the information you need every time you log in. Recent articles, comments and trackback as well as brief statistics get you updated about your blog immediately.

Integrated Media Management
Podcasting, automatic thumbnail generation, mass uploading of files, a filebrowser and custom descriptions for each file is supported through the administration interface

Choose your Style
Looking for a nice design for your weblog? Go check out the many freely available templates. Installation is as easy as uploading a file through your administration interface!

Add a Feature
If you're looking for a feature not available with the standard installation, you will probably find it in the wiki plugins overview, providing you with over 60 features for you to add in no time. Some of the most popular are: Moblogging, Template Editor und Nested Comments.

Built-in anti-spam Filter
The built-in bayesian spam filter keeps comments and trackbacks in you blog clean. And comment moderation, Captchas and trackback validation is available through plugins.

Support for Trackbacks
Trackback blogs you read by simply linking to them! LifeType will automatically find the trackback URL of the blog you are linking to.

Multiple Users per Blog
You can easily give your friends permissions to write in your weblog, making collaborative web sites even easier!

Easy Installation
The installation wizard will take you through the installation - it's a breeze! And there's no need to edit configuration files, you can control all the settings through the administration interface

Mobile features
Are you into moblogging? Do you need to blog wherever you are? Do you need to easily provide low bandwidth versions of your site for mobile devices? Using the appropiate plugins, LifeType becomes the first mobile-ready application of its kind with seamless integration for publishing to and accessing blogs. 

Multiple Blogs in one Installation
With it's multi blog, multi user setup and strict separation of single weblog administration and overall administration LifeType is idealy suited for blog hosting. It's all provided through a single installation and one single database.

Central Page for Communities
Easy 4 step registration for new weblogs, an overwiev of newest and most popular blogs as well as a user and blog index, everything ready to go with your intallation of LifeType.

Subdomains
Provide your users with nice subdomains like username.yourdomain.com or blogname.yourdomain.com. (you need to be able to set up wildcards on your domain to use this feature) If that's not enough, LifeType is also able to serve several different domains with one single installation!

Easily Localizable
Localization is done on a per blog basis. Through just one single file you may translate in any language you like. But before you start your translation make sure it's not already done! LifeType supports any encoding and the latest version has been translated to many languages including French, German, Spanish, chinese and many more.

Performance
Template caching, data object caching and serious code refactoring to improve performance and keep the system load as minimal as possible make LifeType fast and reliable even with very large and busy communites.