Introduction to This Blog System (LifeType)
Dflying | 23 February, 2006 18:28LifeType is an open-source blogging platform with support for multiple blogs and users in a single installation. Current instance is based on LifeType. Later some useful plugins will be online.
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Bloggers love it
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 over 60 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 plugins section, 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.
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.
Administrators trust it
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)
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 French, German, Spanish, Japanese (both using EUC-JP and UTF-8 encodings) 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.
Geeks need it
Nice Looking URLs
Creat your own customized URLs for SEO or to adapt your them to your language. Toggle a setting in the configuration of the site and LifeType will automatically use cruft-free URLs instead of the old style, raw ones.
Nice and Clean Code
LifeType is based on a Model-View-Controller framework providing flexibility and scalability. Documentation is generated with Doxigen and the most recent API is always available.
Clean Content
The default templates included in LifeType are XHTML 1.0 Strict, and so is the content generated by LifeType. Worried about generating correct and standard mark-up? Worry no longer!
Powerful Plugin Framework
The impressive plugin capabilities let's you add about any feature you like. With filters, events, registration of new actions, localization, MVC support (self-contained), perfect integration into the administration interface and template support you can add about any functionality you can think off.
Smarty Templates
Don't like any of the existing templates? No worries!
LifeType is built on top of the fantastic Smarty template engine, providing unprecedented power to template developers without compromising security, since Smarty templates do not allow by default to add potentially dangerous PHP code to our templates. This is specially important if you use LifeType to provide a blogging service to a community.
XMLRPC
LifeType supports an XMLRPC interface for remote creating and editing articles. And of course you may ping as many directories as you like with the inbuilt XMLRPC ping service. XMLRPC pings are enabled/disabled per article.
Demo Site
The kind folks at OpenSourceCMS.com have installed a demo version of LifeType that is available to everyone: click to visit the demo site.
Requirements and License
LifeType requires at least PHP 4.3.0 and MySQL 3.23 to run. Regarding PHP, it is recommended to run the most recent version of either the PHP4 (4.4.0) or PHP5 branches (PHP 5.1.0). Apache is the preferred web server but LifeType should run fine under any web server as long as PHP is supported (including Microsoft Internet Information Services)
LifeType has been built on and for Linux and Unix servers, but it will run on the Windows platform without any problem (both under Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Services)
If you are planning to use advanced features such as customized URLs you will need support for ForceType in your Apache configuration. If you are planning to use the subdomains feature, you will need a domain configured to accept wildcard subdomains as well as a correctly configured Apache server.
LifeType is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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