I need a multi-user blog.

[lorax]

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I'm considering installing a multi-user blog to allow my users to contribute news and industry information. The concept here is my visitors are part of a close-knit community so I'd like to maintain some control over the template and interlink the blogs. I already have a homegrown CMS so I'd like find a standalone multi-user blog solution.

Ideally I'd like to control the template so I can extend my ad space real estate.

So far I've looked at Moveable Type, WordPress, b2evolution, Scoop. I haven't downloaded and worked with them yet and I don't mind paying for a solid usefull package. I'd like to hear from folks who have created multi-user blogs and what your experiences have been with any of these packages or any I may not have found yet.

[hound_dog]

I use the Blog product that comes as an add-on to Invision Power Board. So I'm afraid you won't be able to use it unless your forum software is Invision. Its a superb blog product, and lets your members create their own blogs which you can then see all listed together.

[jorj]

Serendipity has some features like that. It has a documentation about how to install it in multiuser mode. Let me know how it went bcause I have the same in mind.

[Tomness]

A good multi-user blog is cute news.

It's a completly add free, customizable blog. You have controll over everything, and you can set up accounts for other people who want to be a part of it.

I've used it for about a year now, it's ace.

www.cutephp.com

Hope I have helped.

[lorax]

Thanks folks, I'll look into your suggestions.

[rogerd]

I'm fairly impressed by WordPress. It's a blog with simple CMS capability, and allows some surprising things, like being able to choose the filename for static pages.

I just set up a blog for a client with WP, and it's already ranking well for some non-competitive searches. It does have multi-user capability, but I haven't played with the granularity aspects of ownership/rights.

I've also done MT blogs; MT offers fairly powerful multi-blog, multi-author controls. The ones I've set up haven't really exploited these features, though.

[Tomness]

Word Press is really good, yes. I know a lot of people who use that - it has everything you need, and more. I downloaded it, and give it a go, but I prefered cute news - not because it isn't good (because it is), but because I like simple things.

[encyclo]

I've seen a few multi-user news/blog sites which are using Drupal [drupal.org]. I'm not very familiar with it but it looks very customizeable, with the downside that it will have a steeper learning curve than something like WordPress. From your description in your initial post, Drupal is able to do everything that you want.

[Tomness]

I might download that just to play with it. It looks like the MiniBB of the blogging styled sites.

[rogerd]

One minor thing about WordPress - it uses htaccess rewriting for its "static" URLs, and each content page (vs. blog entries) generates code in the htaccess file. If you have a lot of static content to manage, you're going to generate a rather massive htaccess file.

[rogerd]

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