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General Features Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Version
1.1
2.4
N/A
1.0d
Release Date
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
2006-11-07 (17 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
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
David Pinero
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
N/A
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 - Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
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
Unknown
Hosting Features Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
System Requirements Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
Classic ASP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Windows
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
N/A
Datastorage Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Text Files
No
No
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
Yes
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
MS Access
Anti-Spam Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
Support Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
Books
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Blog by Email
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
Post Editing Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Undo
Optional
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Comment Features Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Extended Features Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Workflow Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Content Approval
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Administration Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
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