Jlog vs. b2evolution vs. Wordpress vs. LifeType

General Features Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Version
1.0.2
2.4
2.0.7
1.2.6
Release Date
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 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
Jeena Paradies / team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
WordPress Development Team
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
0
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Datastorage Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
Anti-Spam Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
various other plugins
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
None
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
Support Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
None
5+
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog, MovableType
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Client
Extended Features Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
RSS
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
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 Jlog b2evolution Wordpress LifeType
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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