Blogging platform wishlist

Monday, 15 June 2009 23:36

Filed under: Design

When I lost my job in November 2008, I decided to redo my website and get serious about my web presence.  I started out using Wordpress as my CMS.  Wordpress, as the matrix already knows, is a very powerful, easy to use blogging platform.  Plus, with no small amount of effort in configuration/hacking, it's also a decent small-scale CMS.

But that functionality comes at a price: Speed.   I wanted more CMS functionality out of the box since my site is primarily a portfolio site, and then a blog.  Enter Joomla!

Having happily moved to Joomla! as my CMS du jour in early April, I'm left in a lurch for blogging functionality that even approaches Wordpress.  So, without further ado, here's my blogging wishlist, in no particular order:

• Free!
• Categorization
• Posting (Manual & Scheduled)
• Archiving (Manual & Scheduled)
• Integrated tagging/auto-tagging?
• Tag clouds
• Per post comments/threaded commenting/captcha verification
• Flexible RSS/Atom/other feeds
• Pingback/Trackbacks
• Social bookmarking
• Media embedding
• All searchable from the main search box

I'll spend the next month or so trying out a few different components and such in an effort to achieve something I won't mind using on a regular basis. Stay tuned for updates, and a final round-up of my findings at the end (really?) of the process.

(spoiler: I've already nailed down a number of these desires with built-in functionality and components.)