Dotclear

{{Short description|Open-source blog publishing application}}

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| author = Olivier Meunier

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| released = {{Start date|2002}}

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| programming language = PHP

| operating system = Cross-platform

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| genre = Blog software

| license = GNU General Public License version 2

| website = {{url|http://dotclear.org}}

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Dotclear is an open-source blog publishing application distributed under the GNU GPLv2. Developed originally by Olivier Meunier from 2002, Dotclear has now attracted a solid team of developers.{{Cite web|url=http://dotclear.org/about|title = About Dotclear|date = 8 November 2008}} It is relatively popular in French speaking countries, where it is used by several major blogging platforms (Gandi Blogs,{{cite web |url= https://www.gandi.net/domaine/blog/ |title= Gandi Blog |author= |date= |website= gandi.net |publisher= Gandi SAS |accessdate= 6 May 2014}} Marine nationale,{{cite web |url= http://www.jdb.marine.defense.gouv.fr/ |title= Blogs des bâtiments de la Marine nationale |website= marine.defense.gouv.fr |publisher= Marine Nationale |accessdate= 6 May 2014 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20110522173943/http%3A//jdb.marine.defense.gouv.fr/ |archivedate= 22 May 2011 }} etc.).

Dotclear's proposed aim is to develop a software that fully respects web standards based on open source services, with multilingual interface and publishing capabilities. It is written in PHP.

Notable features include handling many blogs, using Wiki or XHTML syntax for entries, adding pages that are independent from the flow of entries and support for several database types: (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite).{{Citation |title=dotclear/dotclear |date=2024-04-22 |url=https://github.com/dotclear/dotclear |access-date=2024-04-22 |publisher=Github repo dotclear}}{{Cite web|url=http://dotclear.org/about|title = About Dotclear|date = 8 November 2008}}