Inspire Me

Dotclear is a successful French blog application first launched in 2003. If you wonder why I am talking about my blog app, it's because I'm involved in the project as translator of the documentation and — call it collateral damage — living with its founder and main developer, Olivier Meunier.

Three months exactly after the release of Dotclear 2.0, Dotclear is making another major step in its fast-paced development with this 2.1, and the team is launching the English version of the official website featuring details about the project and full user documentation. The application is available in English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian, but the documentation was only available in French. Now it's fixed.

What's new

Automated upgrade — you can now upgrade your Dotclear installation directly from the administration interface.

Sub-categories — this long-awaited feature is now available, so the category management interface has been slightly reviewed.

New template functions — you can now test the category of a post, specify parameters for loops and add widgets as tags wherever you want in your templates.

Better XML/RPC support — Dotclear 2.1 can now be fully used with XML/RPC clients compatible with WordPress up to 2.7.

Reminder of Dotclear 2 best features

• Multiblog
• Powerful, flexible templates
• Wysiwyg, wiki and xhtml editor
• Full featured media manager and handler to easily insert all sorts of media in your posts
• Static pages, with their own template
• Strong SEO
• Extensive user permission management
• Customizable default theme.
• Online theme file editor: modify your template and CSS files directly from your administration interface
• Super secure, clean code
• Antispam filters and trackback protection
• Many plugins and themes, with automatic installation from your interface with plugin daInstaller
• It's free as in freedom, and free as in beer — Dotclear is a fully open-source, user-supported project.

Read more in the Release post on Dotclear blog (now in English too).