Blogger vs. Wordpress vs. DotClear vs. b2evolution

General Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Version
N/A
2.0.7
2.1.3
2.4
Release Date
N/A
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2006-12-01 (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
Google Inc.
WordPress Development Team
Olivier Meunier
Francois Planque / evoTeam
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0 - Free
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
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 b2evolution
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP 5
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Linux, Windows or other
Webserver
N/A
Anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, IIS or other
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Datastorage Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
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
No
Other
N/A
None
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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
several specialized antispam plugins
User Access Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
N/A
No
Optional
Plugin
Other Authentication
N/A
None
Extendable authentication API
OpenID plugin
Support Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
Books
None
5+
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Categorization
None
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger data API
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Post Editing Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comment Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Extended Features Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Workflow Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Content Approval
No
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Content Import
none
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
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
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
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
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger Wordpress DotClear b2evolution
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Unknown
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