b2evolution vs. Serendipity vs. ExpressionEngine vs. LifeType

General Features b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Version
2.4
1.1
1.6
1.2.6
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2004-04-22 (19 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 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
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
EllisLab, Inc.
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Proprietary
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
From 0$ - 249.95$
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
IIS, Apache
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP must have XML support
Datastorage b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
No
Anti-Spam b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
No
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
Support b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Undo
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Client
Extended Features b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Content Approval
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
Yes
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
MySQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Serendipity ExpressionEngine LifeType
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
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