b2evolution

b2evolution is a social content management system. It is a community content management system. Written in PHP and is supported by MySQL database. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is hence freely available to everybody. It is a multi user, multi blog CMS which has varied features. Francois Planque developed b2evolution from the earlier b2 version.

B2evolution offers a great range of features such as it offers multiple blogs, enable multiple users and blogs, it has well documented code, a clean object oriented architecture, it rescues from plugins as installing of plugins is quite simple and user friendly. It offers an integrated SEO settings, it also has integrated stats and analytics which saves a lot of work.It provides photo blogs with thumbnails.

B2evolution offers a comprehensive user management tools as it is a multi user system. It allows you to run your own blogs, it provides full user management. Properly optimized content separation, full featured with multiple blogs. It also enables you to run your own news feed and your photo stream. It is also includes spell check and style wizard.

It is very easy to install, the installation process includes following steps:

1- Uploading the files to a directory on your host
2- Creating a UTF-8 database
3- Initiating to install routine from [path]/install/index.php
4- Complete the various detail request which include the database name and password, email address and the path to the blog URL

B2evolution gives you reliable, rock solid platform to work on. It uses its common core to represent content in various ways by using its collection model. It has a modern look on both the front and back offices. It is considered to be the ideal content management system. It has a varied range of users from advanced bloggers to professionals.