| General Features | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Version |
does not apply | 2.0.7 |
2.4 |
2.0 (2.0.7226.0) |
Release Date |
does not apply | 2007-01-15 |
02-dec-2006 |
14 August 2007 |
Author |
Google Inc. |
WordPress Development Team |
Francois Planque / evoTeam |
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team |
URL |
www.blogger.com |
wordpress.org |
b2evolution.net |
dasblog.info |
Free and Open Source |
does not apply |  Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
does not apply | GPL |
GPL |
BSD License |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 - Free |
Free |
Development status |
does not apply | Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Interface Languages |
9 |
46 |
en,fr,de,da,id,fi,it,ja,nl,sv |
Over a dozen languages |
Multi-User Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Multi-Site Deployment |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
| Hosting Features | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Storage Quota |
 None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Bandwidth Quota |
 None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Other Limits |
 None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Corporate Branding |
 No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Own Domain |
 No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Ads allowed |
 Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Topic Restrictions |
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Programming Language |
does not apply | PHP |
PHP |
asp.net 2.0 |
Operating System |
does not apply | Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Linux, Windows or other |
Any Windows IIS platform |
Webserver |
does not apply | Anything with PHP |
Apache, IIS or other |
IIS 4.0+ |
Root Access |
does not apply |  No |
|
 No |
Other Requirements |
does not apply | |
|
IIS process account write access to web folder |
| Datastorage | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Text Files |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 Yes |
MySQL |
does not apply |  Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
PostgreSQL |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 No |
Oracle |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 No |
SQLite |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 No |
BerkeleyDB |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 No |
MS SQL Server |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 No |
Other |
does not apply |  None |
(must overload DB abstraction class) |
Structured XML data store |
| Anti-Spam | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Akismet Support |
does not apply |  Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Word Blacklist |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
IP Ban List |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
CAPTCHA |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only |
various other plugins |
several specialized antispam plugins |
|
| User Access Features | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
ACL |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Audit Log |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
LDAP Authentication |
does not apply |  No |
 Plugin |
|
Other Authentication |
does not apply |  None |
OpenID plugin |
Vista CardSpace pending |
| Support | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Commercial Support |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 No |
Online Help |
help.blogger.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
manual.b2evolution.net |
dasblog.info |
Issue Tracker |
knownissues.blogspot.com |
trac.wordpress.org |
|
sourceforge.net |
Books |
 None |
5+ |
|
 None |
Support Forum |
groups.google.com |
wordpress.org |
forums.b2evolution.net |
dasblog.us |
Mailing List |
groups.google.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
|
sourceforge.net |
IRC-Channel |
 No |
codex.wordpress.org |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net |
|
| Blogging Features | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Categorization |
 None |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Tags |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Archiving |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
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 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Protected Posts |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Blog by Email |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Blog by SMS/MMS |
 Yes |
|
|
 No |
Blog API |
Blogger data API |
metaWeblog, MovableType |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2 |
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API |
| Post Editing | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Multi-paged posts |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
Spell Checker |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
WYSIWYG Editor |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Undo |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
Syntax Highlighting |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
File Upload |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Asset Management |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Emoticon Images |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
| Comment Features | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Comment Layout |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Feeds for Comments |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
E-Mail on Followup |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Gravatars |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Open-ID Support |
 None |
|
Client |
 None |
| Extended Features | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Plugin System |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Photo Gallery |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Polls / Surveys |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
Search Engine |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom Pages |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Patch |
Google Sitemap |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Workflow | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Content Approval |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Versioning |
 No |
 No |
|
|
Article Publishing |
simple |
simple |
scheduled |
scheduled |
Comment Moderation Queue |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Interoperability | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Content Import |
 none |
from 22 other blog systems |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog |
BlogML pending |
Content Export |
HTML via FTP/SFTP |
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML |
|
BlogML pending |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WebDAV Support |
 No |
|
|
 No |
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
Friendly URLs |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Administration | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
E-Mail Notifications |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Themes / Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trash |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Web Statistics |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Web-based Style / Template Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comment Administration |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Syndication | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
RSS 0.9x |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
RSS 1.0 |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
RSS 2.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM 0.3 |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 No |
ATOM 1.0 |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Podcasting/Videocasting | Blogger  | Wordpress  | b2evolution  | dasBlog  |
Podcast Feeds |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ID3-Tag Editor |
 No |
 No |
|
 No |
YouTube Support |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Media Converter |
 No |
 No |
|
 No |
Phone2Podcast Support |
 No |
 No |
|
 No |
| Last updated | 2006-12-07 | 2007-03-01 | 2008-01-28 | 2007-08-18 |
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