Overview

Dotclear is an open-source web publishing software created in 2002 by Olivier Meunier. A one man's project at first, Dotclear soon gathered a team comprising different personalities with various backgrounds. The project's purpose is to provide a user-friendly tool allowing anyone to publish on the web, regardless of their technical skills.

Features

Dotclear possesses a rich functionality that makes it a high quality publishing tool, equaling and even outperforming other similar tools in some aspects. Beyond the core functionality, Dotclear is designed to provide the user with the most comfortable experience.

• Easy publication
• Fully customizable theme
• User-friendly administration
• Flexible template system
• Media management
• Choose your input method
• Flexible comment system
• Built-in antispam
• Localization
• Presentation widgets
• Themes and plugins
• Pages
• Tags and categories
• Automated installation
• Support for several database types
• Automated installation
• Support for several database types
• Multiblog
• Multi-user with permissions
• Standard compliant
• Accessible
• Importing / exporting
• Naturally optimized for search engines
• Syndication feeds
• Complete trackback support
• Full Unicode support
• XML/RPC client support
• Extensible
• Performance and scalability
• Twice free