Battle Blog vs. b2evolution vs. dasBlog vs. NucleusCMS

General Features Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Version
1.0d
2.4
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
3.24
Release Date
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
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
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Wouter Demuynck and others
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD License
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
System Requirements Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Programming Language
Classic ASP
PHP
asp.net 2.0
PHP
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows or other
Any Windows IIS platform
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, IIS or other
IIS 4.0+
Apache with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
MS Access
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Akismet Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Vista CardSpace pending
Support Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dasblog.info/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
Books
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Blog by Email
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Extended Features Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Workflow Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
BlogML pending
yes
Content Export
BlogML pending
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Battle Blog b2evolution dasBlog NucleusCMS
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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