| General Features | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Version |
2.4 |
2.1.3 |
1.0.2 |
1.2.6 |
0.6 |
3.24 |
1.12.0 |
1.1 |
1.1 |
1.5.4 |
2.0.7 |
Release Date |
02-dec-2006 |
2008-11-20 |
2007-01-09 |
Feb-2008 |
2006-12-09 |
Nov 11, 2006 |
August 23rd, 2006 |
2006-12-28 |
6/30/06 |
Oct 24 2007 |
2007-01-15 |
Author |
Francois Planque / evoTeam |
Olivier Meunier |
Jeena Paradies / team |
The LifeType Project |
Gerrit van Aaken |
Wouter Demuynck and others |
The PSG Team |
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al |
Wheat, Josh, Pete |
Josh Schmidt |
WordPress Development Team |
URL |
b2evolution.net |
dotclear.org |
jeenaparadies.net |
lifetype.net |
loudblog.de |
nucleuscms.org |
savannah.nongnu.org |
www.s9y.org |
wheatblog.sourceforge.net |
www.wikyblog.com |
wordpress.org |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
GPL |
GPL v2 |
GPL 2 |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
BSD |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
free |
Free |
0 |
$0.00 |
0 |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Beta |
Mature |
Mature |
Interface Languages |
en,fr,de,da,id,fi,it,ja,nl,sv |
6 |
German, English, Italian |
English, Spanish, Catalan, German, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Dutch, Italian, French |
about 10 |
English and others |
English, German, Danish, Spanish, French, Norwegian |
English, German, Danish, French and many more |
XHTML, CSS |
Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Turkish |
46 |
Multi-User Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Multi-Site Deployment |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
| System Requirements | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP 5 |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP, SQL |
PHP |
PHP |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other |
Unix/Linux, Windows |
|
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X |
all |
Linux, Windows, UNIX |
Any |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other |
Apache, Lighthttpd |
|
Apache, IIS |
Apache, IIS |
Apache with PHP |
Any |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS) |
Apache |
Apache, anything with PHP |
Anything with PHP |
Root Access |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other Requirements |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 None |
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite) |
MySQL or SQLite |
MySQL |
|
| Datastorage | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Text Files |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
MySQL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
PostgreSQL |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Oracle |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
SQLite |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
MS SQL Server |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class) |
|
|
|
|
|
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New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL |
|
|
 None |
| Anti-Spam | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Akismet Support |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
Word Blacklist |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
IP Ban List |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
CAPTCHA |
 Plugin |
|
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins |
Trackback validation |
|
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form |
Definable Questions |
SpamBayes, MBL |
Moderation, link condom |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks, |
|
|
various other plugins |
| User Access Features | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
ACL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
|
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
Audit Log |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 No |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
LDAP Authentication |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
|
 No |
|
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin |
Extendable authentication API |
|
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 |
|
|
You can write your own auth plugin |
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|
 None |
| Support | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Commercial Support |
|
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 No |
 Yes |
Online Help |
manual.b2evolution.net |
dotclear.org |
|
wiki.lifetype.net |
loudblog.de |
faq.nucleuscms.org |
|
www.s9y.org |
wheatblog.sourceforge.net |
www.wikyblog.com |
codex.wordpress.org |
Issue Tracker |
|
dev.dotclear.org |
jeenaparadies.net |
bugs.lifetype.net |
|
dev.nucleuscms.org |
savannah.nongnu.org |
sourceforge.net |
sourceforge.net |
sourceforge.net |
trac.wordpress.org |
Books |
|
1 |
 None |
 None |
 None |
1 |
 None |
 None |
 None |
 None |
5+ |
Support Forum |
forums.b2evolution.net |
dotclear.net |
|
bugs.lifetype.net |
loudblog.de |
forum.nucleuscms.org |
|
board.s9y.org |
sourceforge.net |
sourceforge.net |
wordpress.org |
Mailing List |
|
|
|
limedaley.com |
|
 yes |
lists.projectsteveguttenberg.org |
lists.sourceforge.net |
sourceforge.net |
|
codex.wordpress.org |
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net |
#dotclear on freenode |
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|
|
 none |
|
www.s9y.org |
|
|
codex.wordpress.org |
| Blogging Features | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Categorization |
Multiple |
Single |
Multiple |
Single |
Multiple |
Single |
 None |
Multiple |
Single |
|
Multiple |
Tags |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Archiving |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 Yes |
Trackback |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Send+Receive |
 No |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
 No |
|
Send+Receive |
Pingback |
|
 No |
Send+Receive |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Send+Receive |
 No |
|
Send+Receive |
Ping Service Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Link- / Blogroll |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Protected Posts |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
|
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Blog by Email |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
Blog by SMS/MMS |
|
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
|
Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2 |
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger |
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type |
 none |
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API |
|
MovableType, Blogger |
|
|
metaWeblog, MovableType |
| Post Editing | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Multi-paged posts |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
|
 Yes |
Spell Checker |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
WYSIWYG Editor |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
Undo |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
File Upload |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Asset Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 No |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Emoticon Images |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Comment Features | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Comment Layout |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Threaded |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Threaded |
Flat |
Threaded |
Flat |
Feeds for Comments |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
E-Mail on Followup |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
Gravatars |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
Open-ID Support |
Client |
|
 None |
Client |
 None |
 None |
 None |
 None |
 None |
 None |
|
| Extended Features | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Photo Gallery |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
Polls / Surveys |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
Search Engine |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom Pages |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Google Sitemap |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
| Workflow | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Content Approval |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
|
 No |
Versioning |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Article Publishing |
scheduled |
scheduled |
simple |
scheduled |
scheduled |
scheduled |
simple |
scheduled |
simple |
simple |
simple |
Comment Moderation Queue |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 Yes |
| Interoperability | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog |
|
|
|
 none |
 yes |
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ... |
|
|
from 22 other blog systems |
Content Export |
|
|
RSS |
|
via RSS |
backup to SQL |
|
Dump to RSS, Database export |
|
|
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
WebDAV Support |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
|
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
Friendly URLs |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Administration | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
E-Mail Notifications |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Themes / Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trash |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Web Statistics |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
Web-based Style / Template Management |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Comment Administration |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Syndication | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
RSS 0.9x |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
RSS 1.0 |
 Yes |
 No |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
RSS 2.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM 0.3 |
|
 No |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
ATOM 1.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
 No |
 No |
|
|
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Podcasting/Videocasting | b2evolution  | DotClear  | Jlog  | LifeType  | Loudblog  | NucleusCMS  | PSG  | Serendipity  | Wheatblog  | WikyBlog  | Wordpress  |
Podcast Feeds |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
ID3-Tag Editor |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
YouTube Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Media Converter |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Phone2Podcast Support |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
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