| General Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0d
|
N/A
|
2.1.3
|
1.8.2
|
1.2.6
|
1.40.6
|
4.1.1
|
1.5.4
|
2.0.7
|
| Release Date |
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
|
30 Dez 2012
|
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
|
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
|
2007-05-07 (16 years ago)
|
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
|
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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| Author |
David Pinero
|
Google Inc.
|
Olivier Meunier
|
Geeklog Team
|
The LifeType Project
|
Pivot Team
|
Josh Schmidt
|
WordPress Development Team
|
|
| URL | |||||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
N/A
|
GPL v2
|
GNU version 2
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
MIT
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
none
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
4
German, English, French, Romanian |
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Hosting Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Programming Language |
Classic ASP
|
N/A
|
PHP 5
|
php
|
PHP
|
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
|
Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Windows
|
N/A
|
Unix/Linux, Windows
|
any
|
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
Any
|
All
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
| Webserver |
IIS 4.0+
|
N/A
|
Apache, Lighthttpd
|
any
|
Apache, IIS
|
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
|
Apache, anything with PHP
|
Anything with PHP
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
|
Ruby
|
MySQL
|
|||||
| Datastorage | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
MS Access
|
N/A
|
no
|
XML-based flat file storage
|
None
|
||||
| Anti-Spam | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Akismet Support |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Word Blacklist |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| IP Ban List |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
|
Trackback validation
|
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
|
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
|
various other plugins
|
||||
| User Access Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
N/A
|
Extendable authentication API
|
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
|
None
|
|||||
| Support | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
http://help.blogger.com/
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
|
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
|
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
|
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
|
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
|
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
|
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
|
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
|
| Books |
None
|
1
|
1
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
5+
|
|
| Support Forum | |||||||||
| Mailing List | |||||||||
| IRC-Channel |
#dotclear on freenode
|
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
|
|||||||
| Blogging Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
None
|
Single
|
Single
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
|
| Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Pingback |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Ping Service Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blog by Email |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blog API |
Blogger data API
|
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
MetaWeblog, Moblog
|
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
|||
| Post Editing | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Undo |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client + Server
|
Client
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|||
| Extended Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Workflow | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Content Approval |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple
|
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Content Import |
none
|
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
||||||
| Content Export |
HTML via FTP/SFTP
|
RSS, Atom
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
||||||
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | Battle Blog | Blogger | DotClear | Geeklog | LifeType | Pivot | typo | WikyBlog | Wordpress |
| Podcast Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| remove Battle Blog | remove Blogger | remove DotClear | remove Geeklog | remove LifeType | remove Pivot | remove typo | remove WikyBlog | remove Wordpress |