| General Features | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0d
|
2.4
|
1.1
|
N/A
|
| Release Date |
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
|
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
|
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
|
| Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
David Pinero
|
Francois Planque / evoTeam
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
|
Sparklit
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
N/A
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free
|
0
|
From $0
|
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
N/A
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Hosting Features | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
1GB - Unlimited
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Upload Bandwidth
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| System Requirements | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Programming Language |
Classic ASP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
N/A
|
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Linux, Windows or other
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
N/A
|
| Webserver |
IIS 4.0+
|
Apache, IIS or other
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
N/A
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Other Requirements |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
N/A
|
||
| Datastorage | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Other |
MS Access
|
(must overload DB abstraction class)
|
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
N/A
|
| Anti-Spam | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Akismet Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Word Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP Ban List |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
Tubby Spam Filter
|
|
| User Access Features | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
| Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin
|
N/A
|
||
| Support | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
Personalized Support
|
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
|
http://support.sparklit.com
|
||
| Books |
None
|
None
|
||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
|
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| Blogging Features | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
| Pingback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blog by Email |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
||
| Post Editing | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Undo |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Asset Management |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Features | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Open-ID Support |
Client
|
None
|
None
|
|
| Extended Features | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Workflow | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Content Approval |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
csv
|
|
| Content Export |
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
csv
|
||
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
HTML 4
|
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Web Statistics |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | Battle Blog | b2evolution | Serendipity | BlogBaker |
| Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
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