Feature List

Here is a list of the features currently supported by LnBlog.  These features are spread out between the core of LnBlog and the standard plugins.  Plugins can be disabled, so if you don’t want a feature that is implemented in a plugin, you can just turn it off.  Also, all elements of the sidebar (as well as the menubar/sitemap and page banner) are implemented as plugins, and so can be configured and turned off just like other plugins.

Summary
Here is a list of the features currently supported by LnBlog.
The following are a list of the standard plugins that come with LnBlog.
The following features are available via officially supported plugins which are not shipped in the default installation.

Features

  • Blog entries with comments.
  • Add tags (topics) to entries.
  • Blacklist comment and trackback spammers by IP address or subnet.
  • RSS feeds for entries and for comments on each entry.
  • Static articles.
  • Send and receive trackbacks.
  • Multiple user accounts.
  • Multiple weblogs.
  • Upload files to blogs, entries, and articles.
  • Can work with PHP’s safe_mode turned on.
  • Use a dialect of BBCode to post entries.
  • Support for Blogger 1.0 and MetaWeblog APIs.
  • Support for internationalization.
  • Support for themes.
  • Support for plugins.

Standard Plugins

The following are a list of the standard plugins that come with LnBlog.

  • E-mail notification on user comments.
  • E-mail notification for trackback pings.
  • Auto-generated RSS feeds (RSS1 headlines and/or RSS2 full text) for blog entries.
  • Auto-generated RSS feeds (RSS1 headlines and/or RSS2 full text) for user comments on each entry.
  • Auto-generate Apache .htaccess files when creating and upgrading blogs (disabled by default).
  • Add metadata (keywords, description, author) and RSS links to the HTML page head.
  • Add trackback auto-discovery RDF code to entries.
  • Turn off comments and trackbacks for an entire blog, or allow comments from only logged-in users.
  • Ban IP addresses and subnets from posting comments or trackback pings.
  • Page header plugin to control display of the blog description.
  • Site map with global or per-blog customization.
  • Sidebar RSS feed links with customizable section header.
  • Sidebar static article list with customizable section header and optional list of custom links.
  • Sidebar calendar with customizable section header.
  • Sidebar form to search your blog with Google (assuming Google has spidered it, disabled by default).
  • Sidebar form to search your blog for a set of words or a regular expression.  Unlike the Google search plugins, this one runs entirely on your server.
  • Sidebar list of tags used in the blog and links to show entries by tag.

Other Plugins

The following features are available via officially supported plugins which are not shipped in the default installation.

  • Post editing with a JavaScript rich text editor (currently both TinyMCE and FCKEditor plugins are available).