b2evolution vs. Serendipity vs. Battle Blog vs. BlogBaker

General Features b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Version
2.4
1.1
1.0d
N/A
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
N/A
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
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
David Pinero
Sparklit
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
From $0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Hosting Features b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
1GB - Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Upload Bandwidth
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Classic ASP
N/A
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
IIS 4.0+
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
N/A
Datastorage b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Text Files
No
No
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
Yes
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
N/A
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
N/A
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
MS Access
N/A
Anti-Spam b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
N/A
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Tubby Spam Filter
User Access Features b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
N/A
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
Support b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Personalized Support
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://support.sparklit.com
Books
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Undo
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Extended Features b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Workflow b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Content Approval
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
csv
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
csv
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Serendipity Battle Blog BlogBaker
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
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