Open Blog - a blog application built using the CodeIgniter PHP Framework

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Open Blog is a lightweight blog platform built on the CodeIgniter PHP Framework. It offers a wide range of features that are designed to enhance your blogging experience and provide a fresh alternative to traditional blog platforms.

Open Blog is an excellent alternative to well known blog platforms and offers a very good set of features.

Here is a screenshot of the default look:

Here are a few of its features:

Friendly user interface – clean and easy to use user interface
Easy to install
– Open Blog comes with a PHP installer which makes installation and configuration very easy (you can get your blog up and running in just a few minutes)
Multi language support – currently available in two languages (English and Slovene), but it can be easily translated into any language
Templates support
– you can easily change the look and feel of your blog by using Open
Blog templating system (the default installation includes 5 attractive
templates
Open Source – Open Blog is being developed as open source software and released under the GPL v3 license so anyone can help improve it
Search engine friendly URLs – all URLs are search engine friendly
Pages – your blog can contain unlimited number of static pages (for example “About” page)
Links – add links to your favourite websites which will be visible to other visitors
Feed support – Open Blog supports RSS and Atom feeds for posts and comments
Aministrator panel – powerful yet easy to use administration panel that makes administrating your blog very easy
WYSIWYG editor – Open Blog includes TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor which makes formatting your posts and pages very simple
Check for updates – you can use the “Information” page on your administrator panel to check if a new version of Open Blog is available
Plug-ins – you can extend the functionality of your blog by developing or using one of the already developed plug-ins

There is a demo that you can try at the Open Blog demo site.