What is B2Evolution?

B2evolution: Veritable Boon for Bloggers

Jan 5, 2009 Preetam Kaushik

B2evolution is a versatile blogging tool with a variety of features for different levels of bloggers.

B2evolution is a software or more appropriately an advanced weblog tool, that allows a user to run their own blogs, newsfeeds and even photo stream. B2evolution can not be summarily dismissed as just another blogging software.

It is instead a multi-lingual, multi-user and multi-blog publishing system with an ability to manage multiple blogs under a single installation. The B2evolution is written in PHP language and supported by a MySQL database.

B2evolution can be downloaded free of charge under the GNU General Public License.

File & photo management, advanced skinning and detailed user permissions features are the extra advantages of this software. The B2 evolution software is accompanied by an integrated XHTML checker to facilitate the validation of any new content before posting. It needs to be stated that B2evolution is the most comprehensive blogging engine preferred by all levels of bloggers.

B2evolution for Beginners

For persons who are somewhat inexperienced in creating blogs, B2evolution is indeed a veritable boon. They will be surprised to see the post instantly appearing on the screen when click on the ‘post’ button. Though one can find this flexibility with other blogging platforms like Wordpress as well yet it’s unique in its own kind.

Further the posts organize themselves according to the subject theme and date. All that one has to do is to find a web host that will install a B2evolution in the website and then the blogging can start without any further steps.

B2evolution for Regular Bloggers

For better experienced bloggers who will be looking for some advanced browsing features B2evolution offers calendar, categories, search facility, RSS feeds, image file upload and third party plug-ins. So the intermediate type of bloggers can enjoy features that go beyond the basic functions of posting and receiving comments such as:

  • Advanced browsing facilities
  • Multi-paged posts
  • Uploading and managing Image / file
  • RSS and Atom feeds
  • Automatic pinging of blog directories
  • Plugins
  • Themes

There are several other attractive user-friendly features to make blogging easy and simple. More a regular blogger comes to know about these features, more they get addicted to it. Such is the technology of B2evolution – relatively simple in usage and highly technical in commercial appeal.

B2evolution for Seasoned Bloggers

The seasoned bloggers will obviously expect a lot more advanced features. Some of the salient features of B2evolutionfor this category of bloggers are multi-blogging facility, faster ‘Search and Display’ capabilities, easy access on any web hosting services, availability in different languages, usage of different templates, unique trackback systems, effective anti-spam tools and several other important tools of content architectureThere are a host of other features and it is difficult to list them all.

B2evolution completely supports even the highly advanced types of blogging resorted to by qualified IT professionals. Apart from all the features enumerated for earlier categories, the additional advanced features include content/presentation separation, full user management, internationalization (i18n) and workflow management. This exclusive IT domain of B2evolution can be termed as B2evolution for IT professionals.

Reviews by Bloggers

Both WordPress and B2evolution are very efficient blogging platforms and do meet most of the needs of bloggers. However, several experienced bloggers complain that even though b2evolution has a lot of customization features, it is rather time-consuming.

Some new and less experienced bloggers claim that b2evolution is geared more towards advanced users. However bloggers of all levels concede that B2evolution is easy to install and get working and the learning curve is not painful.

That lot more bloggers favor WordPress to B2evolution is substantiated by the fact that Google produces 178 million results for WordPress whereas B2evolution yields only 4.75 million results. (From Wordpress vs B2evolution)

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