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ColdFusion Blog shootoutJust a few thoughts here.... > > These are the reasons why I wrote my own blog app as opposed to using > Ray's or buying Jake's: > > - Multiple blogs in a single database / file structure BlogCFC handles multiple blogs with one DSN. > - I like free =) BlogCFC is free, but BlogFusion is not. BlogFusion has a minimum price of $5 for personal use. Close enough to free for me. I decided to send Jake a $30 gift certificate in lieu of payment, which seems like a reasonable offer to me. > - I wanted more search engine friendly URLS. You know, URL's > that don't contain UUIDs =) BlogCFC does have a ?mode=alias&alias=MyBlogEntry type of short URLs. I think a good enhancement would be to default to the alias for the Permalinks in the byline. > - Integrated HTML editor for posting I used to use SOEditor when I was on CFXML_Blog for blog entries and comments. Had a lot of complaints from people who didn't want to have to go through the wait of loading SOEditor. And for adding blogs I found it mangled my posts more than I wanted by adding &13; characters overlapping tag pairs, so I won't be going back to that anytime soon. > - Integrated file manager for uploading images and stuff. Yep that would be helpful. > - More security options to prevent comment spam. > (options to requireCAPTCHA for commenting and/or > user registration) That would be helpful. > - photo blogs That would be awesome! Since I bought BlogFusion which includes a photoblog, I might stick to BlogCFC for regular blogging and add another photo blog seperately for photos with BlogFusion. > - support multiple CFML engines *AND* multiple databases. I think BlogCFC runs BD, although I haven't tested. > Like Ray's blog, BlogCFM is also pretty much entirely CFC based, with no > database queries outside of the CFC files.. so you could also build your > own front end. Basic Aura skin is easy, but changing styles, colors, graphics is tedious. CFXML_Blog had a list of user-contributed skins to switch to in its admin interface. > > Now, BlogCFM 1.01 covers pretty much all of those things fully although > automating the multiple-blog functionality will take a little more work. > So I've achieved my goals. How about support for enclosures? RSS 2.0, mp3 uploads and management? > > Now I need to make it prettier and a little bit easier. I'm going to > try to entirely remove the need for a coldfusion mapping, which would > make installation a lot easier for most people. I also want to add a > few new features, like disabling commenting on entries after X days, That would be a useful feature, but best left optional for the blog admin. > changing the date of entries, hidden entries (ie, entries that don't > show up on the index but do appear in archives, etc)... > > And so on. For categories with hundreds of entries, the category view should have pagination so you can view X many from a category at a time and page through them. > > BlogCFM is open-source under the BSD license (ie, you can do almost > anything you want with it), and I'm using CFOPEN for project tracking.. > bug tracking, feature requests, etc... > Good luck and thanks for listening! -- Steven Erat http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/ -- |
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