bBlog Features

bBlog offers a top-notch feature set out of the box, and complete extensibility for the power user. Some of bBlog's key features are described below:

• Easy site changes — Changes to your site's visual layout and functional components are simple for even an HTML novice, with easy-to-understand and well-structured Smarty templates.
• Threaded Comments — Visitors to your site can leave comments for you (on your blog or theirs, with Trackback). Comments can be enabled or disabled per-post, and comments are threaded by default.
• Cross-blog communications — bBlog fully supports the Trackback standard, and provides per-story and per-comment trackbacks, as well as publishing feeds in RSS 0.9.2, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom 0.3 formats.
• Easy installation — Installing bBlog is easy, and upgrades are designed into the process. Because most customization is through template editing and addition of plugins, upgrading is just a matter of copying new files over old ones, and letting the upgrade script run once.
• Standards compliance — bBlog generates standards compliant code, based on W3C standards. Because of our extensive use of templates, and text formatting plugins, it's easy to maintain a site that works optimally with all browsers and search tools.
• Links and RSS syndication – You can create any number of customizable link lists and blogrolls through your administration interface. In addition to sharing your blog's posts in RSS format, bBlog allows you to syndicate your favorite RSS-aware sites within your own blog using our RSS feed fetcher.
• Spam protection — bBlog implements several anti-blog-spam measures, including optional use of image validation for comment posting.
• Multi-author support — Multiple authors can now post to bBlog, with separate logins to the administration console. Additionally, multi-blog deployments, sharing a single database are now possible (with more multi-blog features coming soon).
• XML-RPC interface — bBlog supports the MetaWeblog API, allowing you to use external applications (like w.bloggar) to post to and manage your weblog.
• Text formatting engine choices —bBlog offers the Texturize, Textile, BBCode and Markdown engines to convert plain text posts into properly formatted XHTML. This gives you flexibility in how you enter your blog posts, while ensuring entries generate valid hypertext markup.
• Bookmarklets — Easily add a "bookmarklet" to your browser, for fast publishing to your blog when your see something interesting while surfing the web.
• Ping notifications — bBlog supports the XML-RPC Ping system used by Weblogs.com, Blo.gs and many others to provide notification when you update your site.