twtpoll Plugin for Mango Blog

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Five WordPress Plugins that should be Mango Plugins

As many people already know, Mango Blog is an easily customizable ColdFusion blog engine that provides a way to administer and publish content to websites. It also provides the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins. While there have already been many great and flexible plugins developed for Mango, the list has a long way to go before it reaches the WordPress plugin directory.

The nerds at Brice Cheddarn are hard at work on several projects, which limits time for plugin development. But, that didn't stop us from compiling a list of plugins we wouldn't mind seeing developed (either in-house or by one of the many CF developers in the world). As such, here are Five WordPress Plugins that should be developed Mango Blog Plugins:

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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: Company Blue

Yes, we coded another Mango Blog theme.  This is the 2nd of what will soon be many themes to be made from the almost forgotten folder of designs we stumbled upon.  This design is called Company Blue and is available for anyone to download and use/change freely under the Creative Commons.

The Company Blue theme has a little bit more style to it than the last theme.  This validated XHTML theme is very professional looking site and is great for any small business.  It is fairly search engine optimized and easy to work on.  It has space for a big promo image on the front page.  It also has a site search tied into every page, making it easier for people to find things on your Mango site.

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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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