SamePage vs. b2evolution vs. Serendipity vs. Textpattern

General Features SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Version
3.3
2.4
1.1
4.0.7
Release Date
3.3
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2008-11-28 (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
eTouch Systems
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Team Textpattern
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
BSD
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
Pls check www.etouch.net
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Hosting Features SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP 4.3+
Operating System
Windows/Linux/Solaris
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
Webserver
Bundled with Tomcat. Can be proxied via webserver of choice
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS, lighttp
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Oracle 9i/10G, JSDK1.4
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL 3.23+
Datastorage SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Moderated Comments
several specialized antispam plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
User Access Features SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
Single-Sign On
OpenID plugin
Support SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Commercial Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
Available
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://textpattern.com/
Issue Tracker
support.etouch.net
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
Books
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#textpattern on freenode
Blogging Features SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
Can be provided on request
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, Blogger
MovableType, metaWeblog
Post Editing SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Extended Features SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Content Approval
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Content Import
Using custom import framework
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
Content Export
No
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unlimited, template-based
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting SamePage b2evolution Serendipity Textpattern
Podcast Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
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