Wheatblog vs. b2evolution vs. Wordpress vs. DotClear

General Features Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Version
1.1
2.4
2.0.7
2.1.3
Release Date
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (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
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Francois Planque / evoTeam
WordPress Development Team
Olivier Meunier
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
License Cost/ Fee
$0.00
0 - Free
0
0
Development status
Beta
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 Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Programming Language
PHP, SQL
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
Operating System
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Webserver
Apache
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL or SQLite
Datastorage Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
Anti-Spam Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
various other plugins
Trackback validation
User Access Features Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
None
Extendable authentication API
Support Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
Books
None
5+
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comment Features Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Extended Features Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
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
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Wheatblog b2evolution Wordpress DotClear
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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