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Dotclear

Easy-to-use open-source blogging engine

Blogging Platforms ★ 46 stars Easy setup GPL-2.0

Dotclear is a long-standing open-source blogging engine designed to be easy to install and use. It offers themes, plugins, and full control over publishing without proprietary lock-in.

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Key features

  • Easy installation
  • Theme and plugin support
  • Multi-blog management
  • Built-in media handling

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Simple to set up
  • Mature and stable

Trade-offs

  • Smaller community
  • Less known outside France

Is Dotclear secure?

OSV.dev lists 12 published advisories for Dotclear. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2023-53952, published 2025-12-19 (299 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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