What would be the Features of an Ideal Blog Software

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

What features would you like in your dream blogging software?

Let me know your thoughts.

Here’s what comes to my mind:
Commenting with:
WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery’s suggestion)

Strong Spam Protection through:
Blacklist
Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?)
Keyword (regex) moderation
IP Banning
Referrer Bouncer
Rule based spam checking

Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols

Offline Blogging support through MT and Blogger protocols

Multi-blog-multi-author

SERP optimized

Update:
Blogging with:
WYSIWYG Editor with special tags enabled and spell-checker (Tom Raftery’s suggestion). It should be fast, unlike the WYSIWYG editors in WordPress.

Security Audited.

What else?
Filed under: CMS Software, Pro Blogging, Web, Web Services, WordPress
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Discussion

Jessica M.
September 26, 2006: 1:32 am

Jessica M.

I’m sorry for little off-topic, but I want to ask you about design of this site. Did you make this template yourself or got from any templates website? Looks pretty cool for me :)


Angsuman
August 31, 2005: 6:12 am

Thanks Richard.

Richard Silverstein
August 31, 2005: 2:17 am

1. good image gallery functionality w. zip file uploads
2. audio file functionality that accomodates lg. file uploads (5-10MB)
3. easy way to display images & amazon items in sidebar

Angsuman
July 14, 2005: 7:37 pm

@Mark I agree. Trackback does more harm than good. Pingback on the other hand is safer.

I have updated the post.

Mark
July 14, 2005: 2:34 pm

Trackback should come off that list.

Angsuman
July 14, 2005: 11:08 am

That’s a good idea.
I have already updated the post :)


Tom Raftery
July 14, 2005: 9:55 am

A spell checker for the wysiwyg editor!
YOUR VIEW POINT
NAME : (REQUIRED)
MAIL : (REQUIRED)
will not be displayed
WEBSITE : (OPTIONAL)
YOUR
COMMENT :
 
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