Blogger vs. Wordpress vs. DotClear vs. Geeklog

General Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Version
N/A
2.0.7
2.1.3
1.8.2
Release Date
N/A
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
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
Google Inc.
WordPress Development Team
Olivier Meunier
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL v2
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
none
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
Yes
Optional
Hosting Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP 5
php
Operating System
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
any
Webserver
N/A
Anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Text Files
N/A
No
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
Yes
Other
N/A
None
no
Anti-Spam Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
various other plugins
Trackback validation
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
No
Optional
Yes
Other Authentication
N/A
None
Extendable authentication API
Support Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
5+
1
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Categorization
None
Multiple
Single
Single
Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger data API
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Undo
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
No
Comment Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
Extended Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Content Approval
No
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Content Import
none
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger Wordpress DotClear Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Unknown
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