Top 10 Free Blogging Platforms & Their Features

1. WordPress (http://wordpress.org/)

URL: http://wordpress.org/
WordPress is the Most famous Blogging Platform

Licence: Free.

Features:

W3C compliant,
easy to edit templates
create non-blog pages (ie. Homepage)
update and maintain numerous Blog Rolls
thousands of themes available
cross-blog communication tools
comments, trackbacks, pingbacks
spam protection
optional user registration
password protect posts or pages
easy to upgrade
import from another blogging platform
allows multiple authors
bookmarklets
plugins…and more.

2. TextPattern (http://www.textpattern.com/)

URL: http://www.textpattern.com/
Main contender to WordPress

Licence: Free.

Features:

Easy publishing using textile
a text-to-HTML converter
preview post or page
compliant XHTML and CSS
tag-based template system which allows the creation of reusable blocks of content and code
comments, trackbacks, pings, spam protection system
built-in site statistics,RSS and Atom
plugins
built-in CSS editor
link management system
image management system
integrated file management system… and like WordPress the list goes on and on.

3. Moveable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/)

URL: http://www.movabletype.org/

Licence: Free.

Features:

The first to use trackBack
Unlimited weblogs
static and dynamic publishing
can create standalone pages asset and file manager
customized User roles
customizable templates
plugins / extensions
tags, categories, sub-categories…
more

4. Serendipity (http://www.s9y.org/)

URL: http://www.s9y.org/

Licence: Free.

Features:

Designed for users of all technical levels
anti-spam
comment, trackbacks, pings,plugins, skinable
easy to upgrade
flexible input/output
choose between HTML
Textile, Wiki, BBCode and more

5. LifeType (http://lifetype.net/)

URL: http://lifetype.net/

Licence: Free.

Features:

integrated media management
smarty templates
plugins
spam filter
installation wizard
moblogging
multi blog
nice looking URLs (strange for a feature)
XMLRPC interface for remote creating and editing articles and more.

6. Flatpress (http://www.flatpress.org/home/)

URL: http://www.flatpress.org/home/

Licence: Free.

Features:

standard-compliant
plugin support
Widget system
easy to customize with themes
and some other features

7. Wheatblog (http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/)

URL: http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/

Licence: Free.

Features:
The features on Wheatblog are much and such the same as Flatpress.

sBlog (http://sblog.se/wiki/Main_Page)

URL: http://sblog.se/wiki/Main_Page.
Licence: Free.
Features:
Again, as Flatpress and Wheatblog, basic features. Something appealing about that. Clean and Simple.

9. Eggblog (http://eggblog.net/)

URL: http://eggblog.net/.
Licence: Free.

Features: Basic features.

10. Loudblog (http://www.loudblog.com/)

URL: http://www.loudblog.com/.

Licence: Free.

Features:
LoudBlog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. And have other basic features