What Is Dotclear?

This article was originally published in Turkish on 2024-06-23 and migrated from our previous website. This English version translates the archived article. Promotions, prices, product features, roles and service availability are historical information, not current offers or guarantees.

Dotclear is open-source web-publishing software created by Olivier Meunier in 2002. It began as a one-person project, then attracted a team with varied backgrounds. Its goal is a user-friendly publishing tool for people regardless of technical skill.

Features described in the source

The source describes a feature-rich publishing tool designed for comfortable use:

• Easy publishing, customizable themes, user-friendly administration and flexible templates.
• Media management and a choice of content-entry methods.
• Flexible comments and built-in antispam.
• Localization and presentation tools.
• Themes, plugins, pages, tags and categories.
• Automatic installation and support for several database types; these two features are repeated in the original list.
• Multiple blogs and users with permissions.
• Standards compliance and accessibility.
• Import/export, search-friendly structure and syndication feeds.
• Trackbacks, Unicode and XML/RPC clients.
• Extensibility, performance and scalability.
• The source closes its list with “free in two senses.”

The original article says it can be installed on the hosting servers through Softaculous; current availability must be checked separately.