Mango blogging - more choice is what we want!

Posted on July 24, 2008
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I only just stumbled on the Mango blogging engine via a post on fusiongrokker - it’s great to see another CF powered blogging engine out there. I’ve played with BlogCFC in the past but didn’t quite meet my requirements for various reasons.

When I re-established this blog, I went with Wordpress which was evolved into a best-in-class blogging and general web publishing engine. One of the best things about WP as a platform is the sheer amount of community support for it via plugins and the like.

However recently I’ve been tasked with setting up a blog for our company project, and since we are a CF shop it’d be nice to keep the server as tidy as possible and stay strictly within the CF world. I could install PHP and setup Wordpress, but there it isn’t the most ideal option, regardless of how awesome WP is as a blogging engine. Alternatively, installing a CF-powered blog is just too easy - if it fits the bill features and maturity wise.

Adam’s post on FusionGrokker piqued my interest - moving from WP to Mango would suggest that Mango is mature enough to justify moving platforms.

So, I’m off to install Mango on our dev server and see what it’s like. The feature set certainly looks nice and since it’s CF I might get stuck into developing a plugin or two. I’ll report back on my thoughts regarding Mango after I’ve had a play.

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2 Responses to “Mango blogging - more choice is what we want!”

  1. Brian Rinaldi on July 24th, 2008 1:02 pm

    You may want to check out my post on moving to Mango. It offers a lot of tips, especially if you are moving a large amount of existing data.

    http://www.remotesynthesis.com/post.cfm/making-the-move-to-mango

  2. jonn on September 3rd, 2008 12:54 pm

    gopoz

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