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Dotclear vs Textpattern: catalog facts
Dotclear	Textpattern
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Long history, in development since 2002 Self-hosted, so you keep control of the blog	Tag-based templates with clean HTML output Lean core extendable with plugins
Community and documentation are largely French-speaking Needs a PHP web server to run	Requires PHP and MySQL hosting Smaller plugin and theme ecosystem than larger CMSes
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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