| General Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Version |
2.4 |
does not apply | 2.1.3 |
1.5.1 |
4.21 |
1.1 |
4.0.7 |
2.0.7 |
Release Date |
02-dec-2006 |
does not apply | 2008-11-20 |
22 Sep 2008 |
2008-08-21 |
2006-12-28 |
2008-11-29 |
2007-01-15 |
Author |
Francois Planque / evoTeam |
Google Inc. |
Olivier Meunier |
Geeklog Team |
Six Apart |
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al |
Team Textpattern |
WordPress Development Team |
URL |
b2evolution.net |
www.blogger.com |
dotclear.org |
www.geeklog.net |
www.movabletype.org |
www.s9y.org |
textpattern.com |
wordpress.org |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
does not apply |  Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
GPL |
does not apply | GPL v2 |
GNU version 2 |
GPL |
BSD |
GPL |
GPL |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free |
0 |
0 |
 none |
$0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Interface Languages |
en,fr,de,da,id,fi,it,ja,nl,sv |
9 |
6 |
31 |
English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch |
English, German, Danish, French and many more |
40+ |
46 |
Multi-User Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Multi-Site Deployment |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
| Hosting Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Storage Quota |
does not apply |  None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply |  None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Other Limits |
does not apply |  None |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Corporate Branding |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Own Domain |
does not apply |  No |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Ads allowed |
does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | does not apply |
| System Requirements | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Programming Language |
PHP |
does not apply | PHP 5 |
php |
Perl 5 |
PHP |
PHP 4.3+ |
PHP |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other |
does not apply | Unix/Linux, Windows |
any |
Platform Independant |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other |
does not apply | Apache, Lighthttpd |
any |
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS) |
Apache, IIS, lighttp |
Anything with PHP |
Root Access |
|
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other Requirements |
|
does not apply | |
4.1.0 or higher, MySQL 3.23.2 or higher |
|
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite) |
MySQL 3.23+ |
|
| Datastorage | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Text Files |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
MySQL |
 Yes |
does not apply |  Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
PostgreSQL |
 No |
does not apply |  Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Oracle |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
SQLite |
 No |
does not apply |  Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
MS SQL Server |
 No |
does not apply |  No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class) |
does not apply | |
 no |
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license |
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL |
|
 None |
| Anti-Spam | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Akismet Support |
 Plugin |
does not apply |  Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Word Blacklist |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
IP Ban List |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
CAPTCHA |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only |
Trackback validation |
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins |
Numerous plugins provide complete solution |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks, |
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps |
various other plugins |
| User Access Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
ACL |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Audit Log |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
LDAP Authentication |
 Plugin |
does not apply |  Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin |
does not apply | Extendable authentication API |
|
Pluggable |
|
|
 None |
| Support | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Commercial Support |
|
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Online Help |
manual.b2evolution.net |
help.blogger.com |
dotclear.org |
www.geeklog.net |
www.sixapart.com |
www.s9y.org |
textpattern.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
Issue Tracker |
|
knownissues.blogspot.com |
dev.dotclear.org |
project.geeklog.net |
bugs.movabletype.org |
sourceforge.net |
textpattern.googlecode.com |
trac.wordpress.org |
Books |
|
 None |
1 |
1 |
2-5 |
 None |
1 |
5+ |
Support Forum |
forums.b2evolution.net |
groups.google.com |
dotclear.net |
www.geeklog.net |
forums.movabletype.org |
board.s9y.org |
forum.textpattern.com |
wordpress.org |
Mailing List |
|
groups.google.com |
|
www.geeklog.net |
mtos-dev@sixapart.com |
lists.sourceforge.net |
lists.textpattern.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net |
 No |
#dotclear on freenode |
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net |
#movabletype @ freenode.net |
www.s9y.org |
#textpattern on freenode |
codex.wordpress.org |
| Blogging Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Categorization |
Multiple |
 None |
Single |
Single |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Multiple |
Tags |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Archiving |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trackback |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Send+Receive |
Pingback |
|
 No |
 No |
Send+Receive |
Receive |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Send+Receive |
Ping Service Support |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Link- / Blogroll |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Protected Posts |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Blog by Email |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
|
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
Blog by SMS/MMS |
|
 Yes |
 Plugin |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
|
Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2 |
Blogger data API |
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger |
|
XML-RPC and Atom |
MovableType, Blogger |
MovableType, metaWeblog |
metaWeblog, MovableType |
| Post Editing | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Multi-paged posts |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Spell Checker |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
WYSIWYG Editor |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
Undo |
 No |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
File Upload |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Asset Management |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Emoticon Images |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
| Comment Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Comment Layout |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Threaded |
Threaded |
Threaded |
Flat |
Flat |
Feeds for Comments |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
E-Mail on Followup |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Gravatars |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Open-ID Support |
Client |
 None |
|
Client + Server |
Client + Server |
 None |
 None |
|
| Extended Features | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Photo Gallery |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Polls / Surveys |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Search Engine |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom Pages |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Google Sitemap |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
|
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
| Workflow | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Content Approval |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
Versioning |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Article Publishing |
scheduled |
simple |
scheduled |
scheduled |
scheduled |
scheduled |
scheduled |
simple |
Comment Moderation Queue |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Interoperability | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog |
 none |
|
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR |
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ... |
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2 |
from 22 other blog systems |
Content Export |
|
HTML via FTP/SFTP |
|
|
 Yes |
Dump to RSS, Database export |
Unlimited, template-based |
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WebDAV Support |
|
 No |
 No |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
Friendly URLs |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Administration | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
E-Mail Notifications |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Themes / Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Trash |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Web Statistics |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Web-based Style / Template Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comment Administration |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Syndication | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
RSS 0.9x |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
RSS 1.0 |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
RSS 2.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM 0.3 |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
ATOM 1.0 |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Podcasting/Videocasting | b2evolution  | Blogger  | DotClear  | Geeklog  | Movable Type  | Serendipity  | Textpattern  | Wordpress  |
Podcast Feeds |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
ID3-Tag Editor |
|
 No |
 No |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
YouTube Support |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
Media Converter |
|
 No |
 No |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Phone2Podcast Support |
|
 No |
 No |
|
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
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