Mango Blog is an extensible blog engine released under the Apache license, built with ColdFusion. It provides the core engine to administer and publish entries and the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins. Mango Blog can be easily customized by the use of exchangeable and completely customizable skins.
Mango provides a plugin architecture that makes it highly extensible.
Mango already comes with a set of common plugins you can immediately use. Plugins can be used to modify rendered output, keep statistics, implement user notifications, and more.
Quick install and setup. Installer creates the database automatically, enters first users, and imports from other engines with a wizard interface.
Mango is fully skinnable.
There are several freely available themes or you can create your own.
Mango shows a notice when a new version is out and you just need to click to upgrade.
Implement user-created blogs
Nice looking administration
Mango Blog Is Truly Impressive. The setup was quick and painless; it just worked flawlessly the first time. The blog is fast, looks good (by default, and can be made to look even better quite easily by using other skins, some of which are included and others can be easily downloaded and activated), and the Administrator tool is superb. I started working through Laura’s code, and honestly, this is some of the best ColdFusion code I have ever seen. It is well organized, consistent, documented, highly understandable
Adobe's Senior Director of Education Initiatives
I am extremely impressed by the quality of the software. Installing Mango is a breeze, and should really set a standard for how a ColdFusion application should manage installation. The first thing that strikes you when you log in to the admin of Mango is that a lot of care was taken in the user-interface. The admin has a very clean and usable UI that you could present to someone who isn't even extremely web savvy and they would understand it.
Leader of the Developer Relations team at LocalStack