Top Six Mango Blog Plugins

Part of the ColdFusiontology effort being undertaken by the nerds of Brice Cheddarn Development includes spreading the word about our favorite blog engine, Mango Blog.

Mango Blog is an easily customizable blog engine built with ColdFusion that provides a way to administer and publish entries. It also provies the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins. It comes with a set of plugins out-of-the-box, but others have begun to write their own plugins to help expand upon this powerful ColdFusion blogging tool. And some of those plugins need recognition.

As such, I wanted to put together a quick list of the Top Six Mango Blog plugins that are currently available. With the growing number of plugins for Mango Blog, this definitely wasn't an easy list to compile. This is a completely subjective list that is probably not as thought out as it should be, so please feel free to comment and offer your suggestions.

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New Mango Blog Theme: Business Mango

In an attempt to get an inventory organized, we stumbled across a design that was never utilized for a project. The instant thought was that this design would be perfect to use for a first-attempt at a from-scratch Mango Blog theme. While we have worked with Mango on several sites, we mostly adapted existing designs/templates to the look we needed. This rediscovered design was a good idea for our first, very own, Mango Blog theme.

We came across the open source ColdFusion blog application Mango Blog over a year ago and fell in love with it instantly. The potential is huge and the ideas are near limitless. It is very much the "WordPress of ColdFusion", with one important difference: Mango is alot easier to skin!

To promote the continued use of Mango Blog, the nerds at Brice Cheddarn have decided to embark on a Mango Crusade to spread the word. Call us the Tom Cruise of Mangotology.

As a part of that, we will begin to code a series of plugins and themes released under the Creative Commons so that anyone can download and use freely, or change as they see fit.

The Business Mango Theme is the first of many free theme ideas we have in mind. This theme is very simple and rather plain but, it is good for throwing a site up in a hurry and is very professional looking, making it a good choice for any number of business oriented websites or personal blogs. It is validated XHTML and CSS as an added bonus. As time allows, updates and enhancements will be made.

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