I want a CMS, with the following feature, it should have a blog, where people can post their stories/articles and others can comment on it. There should be a search function( for searching through the name of the story/article) and should be categorized on different heads. Should be very SEO friendly.. Any clues..? Wordpress? Joomla? Pleas advise. thanks.
Depends on how professional site you want to have. If its a serious project, use Joomla. But following the KISS rule, go for wordpress.
But how to allow the public to post stories (with my approval) without registering..? I dont know., how to do this.?
You can see an example of a Drupal site where people have blogs and other people comment on them at http://steptalk.org. (this isn't my site, wish it was! )
What's the problem on having them to register? Each and every post they made should go into draft first. You can assign them to level Author. So you can either approve the post or delete it before the entry goes into public.
and yea pligg is also good just opened my site using pligg and yahoo has indexed my site within 1 week. http://passiondiaries.com
Thats not true, with opensef component, jommla is really one of the best seo friendly cms in the market.
Use some of these http://www.simplemachines.org/ http://b2evolution.net/ drupal Power full and well supported Thanks