Forest Blog vs. b2evolution vs. Wordpress vs. SamePage

General Features Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Version
1.2.2
2.4
2.0.7
3.3
Release Date
13/02/2007
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
3.3
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
Patrick Robin
Francois Planque / evoTeam
WordPress Development Team
eTouch Systems
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
GPL
Commercial
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
Pls check www.etouch.net
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
Optional
Hosting Features Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
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
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No pornography
System Requirements Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Programming Language
ASP 3.0
PHP
PHP
Java
Operating System
Windows
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows/Linux/Solaris
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP
Bundled with Tomcat. Can be proxied via webserver of choice
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Oracle 9i/10G, JSDK1.4
Datastorage Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
Yes
No
No
No
Other
Access
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
Anti-Spam Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Akismet Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
posting timelimit, comment moderation queue, link analyser
several specialized antispam plugins
various other plugins
Moderated Comments
User Access Features Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
None
Single-Sign On
Support Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://www.hostforest.co.uk/Downloads/Blog/guide.pdf
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Available
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
support.etouch.net
Books
5+
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
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
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog, MovableType
Can be provided on request
Post Editing Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Undo
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Extended Features Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Workflow Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
No
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
none
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
from 22 other blog systems
Using custom import framework
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
No
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syndication Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Forest Blog b2evolution Wordpress SamePage
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
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