Editing B2evolution (section)

== Main features ==
Known primarily for its multi-blog capabilities,<ref>[http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/features/internet/webdev/cms/cms_blogs/q_and_a.html "FIVE BLOGS, FIVE QUESTIONS..."]. www.bitwisemag.com. Retrieved on 2010-08-26.</ref> b2evolution also includes "all the features of traditional blog tools"<ref>[http://b2evolution.net/about/features.html "Feature summary"]. b2evolution.net. Retrieved on 2010-08-26.</ref> like file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple domain support, detailed user permissions, and W3C standards compliance. It installs on almost any [[LAMP (software bundle)|LAMP]] ([[Linux]], [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache]], [[MySQL]]/[[MariaDB]], [[PHP]]) server.<ref name="requirements">{{Cite web |url=http://b2evolution.net/man/system-requirements |title=System requirements |website=b2evolution.net}}</ref> The software will run on [[Internet Information Services|IIS]] using [[FastCGI]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iis.net/learn/application-frameworks/install-and-configure-php-applications-on-iis/b2evolution-on-iis|title=b2Evolution on IIS}}</ref> but database servers other than MySQL and MariaDB are not supported. Configuration is handled through the installer or administrative back-end.

In addition to its ability to manage multiple blogs, b2evolution supports multiple users and admins under a single installation without the need of external plugins. b2evolution also supports numerous third-party plugins. These include text format extensions enabling Textile, Auto-P, Greymatter, [[BB code]], Texturize, [[LaTeX]], and graphic [[smiley|smilies]]. Also, plugins which facilitate full integration with third party tools such as [[Gallery Project|Gallery 2]], [[YouTube]], and [[digg]] are available.

Other features include community-wide [[Spam (electronic)|spam]] filters, in which many b2evolution sites aggregate and tag spammer [[IP address|IPs]] into a central [[blacklist]] for the benefit of all b2evolution blogs,{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} a button to declare "comment spam bankruptcy"&mdash;which deletes all comments across an entire b2evolution installation, a fully [[Skin (computing)|skinnable]] interface, strong [[SEO]] features including automatic [[HTTP redirect|redirection]] of renamed articles and insertion of canonical link tags, url shortening, localization into a dozen language packs, and a fully exposed [[Application programming interface|API]] for [[Plug-in (computing)|plugin]] developers to add new functionality. b2evolution's code is [[Decomposition (computer science)|factored]] into the blog application itself and a framework called EvoCore. EvoCore can be used on its own to build non-blog web applications.