Blog Hosting Applications

In addition to the EasyApps list of applications, each hosting account at ChiliPepperWeb.net now includes 5 powerful and easy-to-use blog and podcast hosting applications to enhance the content of your site, encourage repeat visits by people and search engines, and increase the social interactivity of your website.

To add them to your site, just log into your control panel, look for the Blogs icon under the Web Server section, find the application you want to use, and click on the Install link on its description page. Follow the documentation links to begin customizing the program to fit your site.

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User Friendly Interface
Writing articles is comfortable with the included state of the art WYSIWYG editor. Adding pictures and sound files (for Podcasting) is just a matter of browse and click. The Dashboard provides you with all the information you need every time you log in. Recent articles, comments and trackback as well as brief statistics get you updated about your Blog immediately.

Integrated Media Management
Podcasting, automatic thumbnail generation, mass uploading of files, a filebrowser and custom descriptions for each file is supported through the administration interface.

Choose your Style
Looking for a nice design for your weblog? Go check out the over 60 freely available templates. Installation is as easy as uploading a file through your administration interface!

Add a Feature
If you're looking for a feature not available with the standard installation, you will probably find it in the plugins section, providing you with over 60 features for you to add in no time. Some of the most popular are: Moblogging, Template Editor und Nested Comments.

Anti-spam Filter
The built-in bayesian spam filter keeps comments and trackbacks in you blog clean. And comment moderation, Captchas and trackback validation is available through plugins.

Support for Trackbacks
Trackback blogs you read by simply linking to them! LifeType will automatically find the trackback URL of the blog you are linking to.

Multiple Users per Blog
You can easily give your friends permissions to write in your weblog, making collaborative web sites even easier!

Easy Installation
The installation wizard will take you through the installation - it's a breeze! And there's no need to edit configuration files, you can control all the settings through the administration interface.

Mobile Features
Are you into moblogging? Do you need to blog wherever you are? Do you need to easily provide low bandwidth versions of your site for mobile devices? Using the appropiate plugins, LifeType becomes the first mobile-ready application of its kind with seamless integration for publishing to and accessing blogs.

Administrators trust it

Multiple Blogs in one Installation
With it's multi blog, multi user setup and strict separation of single weblog administration and overall administration LifeType is idealy suited for blog hosting. It's all provided through a single installation and one single database.

Central Page for Communities
Easy 4 step registration for new weblogs, an overwiev of newest and most popular blogs as well as a user and blog index, everything ready to go with your intallation of LifeType.

Subdomains
Provide your users with nice subdomains like username.yourdomain.com or blogname.yourdomain.com. (you need to be able to set up wildcards on your domain to use this feature).

Easily Localizable
Localization is done on a per blog basis. Through just one single file you may translate in any language you like. But before you start your translation make sure it's not already done! LifeType supports any encoding and the latest version has been translated to French, German, Spanish, Japanese (both using EUC-JP and UTF-8 encodings) and many more.

Performance
Template caching, data object caching and serious code refactoring to improve performance and keep the system load as minimal as possible make LifeType fast and reliable even with very large and busy communites.

Geeks need it

Nice Looking URLs
Creat your own customized URLs for SEO or to adapt your them to your language. Toggle a setting in the configuration of the site and LifeType will automatically use cruft-free URLs instead of the old style, raw ones.

Nice and Clean Code
LifeType is based on a Model-View-Controller framework providing flexibility and scalability. Documentation is generated with Doxigen and the most recent API is always available.

Clean Content
The default templates included in LifeType are XHTML 1.0 Strict, and so is the content generated by LifeType. Worried about generating correct and standard mark-up? Worry no longer!

Powerful Plugin Framework
The impressive plugin capabilities let's you add about any feature you like. With filters, events, registration of new actions, localization, MVC support (self-contained), perfect integration into the administration interface and template support you can add about any functionality you can think off.

Smarty Templates
Don't like any of the existing templates? No worries!
LifeType is built on top of the fantastic Smarty template engine, providing unprecedented power to template developers without compromising security, since Smarty templates do not allow by default to add potentially dangerous PHP code to our templates. This is specially important if you use LifeType to provide a blogging service to a community.

XMLRPC
LifeType supports an XMLRPC interface for remote creating and editing articles. And of course you may ping as many directories as you like with the inbuilt XMLRPC ping service. XMLRPC pings are enabled/disabled per article.

• Easy publishing (blogs/articles/news/journals..)
• Lightning Fast database processing
• Unlimited BLOGS, Categories
• Posting (Hidden/Frozen, Draft (future dated) ), Commenting (threaded comments)
• bbCode, Smilies (smiley packs), Badword filter, HTML/Text posts, WYSIWYG Richtext editor
• Monthly archives
• Sending posts
• Voting/Rating posts
• File uploads , File manager, Image manager
• User registration (with user levels)
• User profiles (pic upload, bio..)
• Article/Post search
• Pingbacks / Trackbacks
• Event display system
• Theme packs, Themplate editor
• Language packs
• Link Manager
• Timezone management
• IP Blocking
• SpamFilter (anti trackback/comment spam)
• Image verification for comments
• Built in referer logging
• Multi purpose Calendar
• XML feeds (RSS .92, RSS 2.0 (formatted) , ATOM .03)
• Built in Shoutbox
• Built in backup/restore management system
• Printer friendly pages
• Search engine friendly pages and URLs

• Simple. Designed for users of all technical levels.
• Robust Editing Interface. Featuring an (optional) WSYISWG editor, easily browsable image manager, extended entry support, entries statistics and a host of other features.
• Threaded comments, Nested categories and posting to multiple categories are supported.
• Anti-Spam / Comment moderation. Through use of a (bundled) plugin you can enable CAPTCHAs, SURBL-blacklisting, automatted comment moderation based on the content of a comment. Highly configurable.
• Support for XML-RPC Editing. Support for both the Movable Type? and Blogger XML-RPC APIs.
• Dynamic. You don't need to constantly wait while your weblogging system regenerates pages. Caching is dynamically managed, so you don't need to worry about it when publishing your weblog. Optional advanced URL rewriting rules and customizable permalinks are available.
• Trackback and Pingback. Serendipity can accept, send and autodiscover trackbacks and pingbacks. Of course you can also ping common weblog services like technorati, blo.gs, blogger, yahoo and blogg.de.
• Plugins. A robust plugin system allows you to modify Serendipity without digging through the core source code. Sidebar plugins allow easy customization of your Blog with dozens of features. Event plugins are a powerful method of method callbacks, which can hook in into any place in s9y to make it one of the most flexible APIs available. Our online repository (Spartacus) supports adding plugins within a few mouseclicks and no manual file up/downloading!
• Multiple Databases. Serendipity supports MySQL(i), PostgreSQL and SQLlite database backends.
• Multiple Users. Multiple users can edit and administrate the weblog. A free permission setup can tell which user is allowed to do what.
• Internationalized. Serendipity is available in English, German, Danish, French and many more, and adding new translations is a snap.
• Skinnable. Templates can easily be added by the magic of CSS. Several templates are included by default. Even visitors of your blog are able to change the layout on-the-fly if you use the template-dropdown plugin. For the advanced user, the full flexibility of the Smarty templating engine allows to change every aspect of the Serendipity look.
• Open Source. Serendipity is licensed under the BSD License.
• Standards Compliant. Serendipity supports XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.0, RSS 0.93, 1.0, and 2.0, Atom 0.3 and 1.0. Supports conditional GET for caching RSS feeds on the client-side. It also supports UTF-8 environments.
• Shared library. You can use Serendipity as a single installation to serve multiple and independent weblogs, but only maintaining a single codebase.
• Easy Upgrading. An easy and automatic upgrader helps you in the process of upgrading between Serendipity versions (starting with version 0.5).
• Flexible Input/Output. Choose between HTML, Textile, Wiki, BBCode and a boast of other markups. For both users and your editors!
• PHP-powered to fulfill the needs of ever-growing PHP-enabled websites and easy integration with support of embedding Serendipity into your webpage.
• Actively maintained by some skilled and open-minded developers who enjoy the touch to the actual user and give support on the Forums as well as listen to every new user suggestion