There are many blog engines that can be used to build awesome, functional blogs, today, I will cover some of the well known and lesser known. There is always the popular WordPress, and Ruby has been gaining popularity, so many of the engines that I list will probably be in Ruby.

This will likely be updated as engines and frameworks are released and updated.

The Engines

‘Real’ Engines

• WordPress - PHP
• Drupal - PHP
• Joomla
• Jekyll - Ruby
• toto - Ruby
• Vanilla - Ruby
• Scanty - Ruby (built on Sinatra
• Octopress - Ruby (built on Jekyll)

Individual Frameworks

• Flask - Python
• Sinatra - Ruby
• Rails - Ruby (MVC)
• Camping - Ruby (only 4kb, MVC)
• Codeigniter - PHP (MVC)
• Fuel - PHP (MVC)

WordPress

One of the most popular blogging engines on the internet, with over 61 million sites powered by it and with a huge library of themes and addons to enhance it.

WordPress is built using PHP, a server-side language focused on interacting with web pages and databases,