When you hear about the Gelato CMS for the first time there’s a moment where you think that it could be useful. Gelato is an tumblelog CMS, a variation of a open source blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts videos, chat logs, links, created by a group of Mexican developers. Built in AJAX, PHP and MySQL and similar to full blown blogs, The gelato project is open source where you can use and change the original source code freely to create your blog.
If quality is the point differentiation between cms open sources, Gelato has positioned itself very well. Like then similar CMS platform such as Bazooka and Tumble, Gelato it’s similar to WordPress, including themes layout and plugin support TBA. Gelato CMS installation is very easy:
- Download and unzip the gelato package, if you haven’t already.
- Create a database for gelato on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all
- privileges for accessing and modifying it.
- Rename the config-sample.php file to config.php.
- Open config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details.
- Place the gelato files in the desired location on your web server.
- Run the gelato installation script by accessing install.php in your favorite web browser.
Gelato Themes
If you want a new look to your blog, Gelato allows to add new different Themes offering many choices to create your own unique Gelato site look.
We were disappointed by the lack of comments, it’s a problem that Gelato corrects through other services like Twitter or Pownce.
