Looking for... blogging software

You could do this fairly easily with Drupal and a couple of modules.

 

Might want to test drive a few of the blog software packages listed here:

http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/show.php?catid=2&cat=Blogs

Great site for checking out open source software like this.

Drupal is a fully featured CMS (Content Management System) and although I found it personally easy to setup and extremely powerful when the modules are added, as splitpea noted, but I think it's not 1-2-3 done for newbies. You will spend some time learning it's nuances and doing initial setup. The good news is once you do all that, it literally will do everything you want in a secure and stable environment and plenty of cool modules (all free) and themes.

-jim

 

Sorry, you're right. I shouldn't have implied that getting started with Drupal is easy. But this particular use case is covered without any custom development -- just the Drupal core (covering the user registration, workflow, blog entries, tagging, and comments) and two contrib modules (CCK + Vote up/down).

You'll then need to do a bunch of configuration through the admin interface, which is the part that will be confusing for a new user, since Drupal's terminology is odd and sometimes there isn't much documentation on how to accomplish various goals.

Edited to add:

On second thought, this really wouldn't be too difficult to do with Wordpress either. Simply set the default new user role to Contributor, and they'll be able to write drafts but not publish them. Then you just need to find a plugin that allows the voting, which I imagine is already out there.

 

No biggie. I agree with your recent comments entirely.

 

Yes you can set up so the default users can submit stories for the editor to approve.

However that might expose too much of the back end.

 

Wordpress. Dotclear.

You want more ? Go for Joomla. Or more complicated : Drupal.

 

Why was Joomla a nightmare ? I used it a lot and the learning curve is not so steep...

 

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