General Features | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
---|---|---|---|---|
Version |
1.2.6
|
2.4
|
2.0.7
|
0.1010
|
Release Date |
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
|
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
|
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
|
2009-01-23 (15 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 |
The LifeType Project
|
Francois Planque / evoTeam
|
WordPress Development Team
|
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
|
URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPLv2
|
License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0 - Free
|
0
|
Free
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
Interface Languages |
0
|
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
|
0
|
Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
System Requirements | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP4, compatible with 5
|
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows or other
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Platform Independent
|
Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, IIS or other
|
Anything with PHP
|
Apache, works on IIS
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Other Requirements | ||||
Datastorage | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Word Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
IP Ban List |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
|
several specialized antispam plugins
|
various other plugins
|
|
User Access Features | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Other Authentication |
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
|
OpenID plugin
|
None
|
|
Support | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Online Help |
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
Issue Tracker |
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
|
Books |
None
|
5+
|
None
|
|
Support Forum | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
|
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Blogging Features | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Categorization |
Single
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
Pingback |
No
|
Send+Receive
|
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Ping Service Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Blog by Email |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Blog API |
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
WordPress (plugin)
|
Post Editing | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Multi-paged posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Comment Features | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Comment Layout |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Open-ID Support |
Client
|
Client
|
||
Extended Features | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Workflow | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Content Approval |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Interoperability | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
|
|
Content Export |
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
|
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Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
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 | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | LifeType | b2evolution | Wordpress | FlatPress |
Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Media Converter |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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