blogSpirit vs. Blogger vs. FlatPress vs. Battle Blog

General Features blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Version
5.0
N/A
0.1010
1.0d
Release Date
2007
N/A
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 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
blogSpirit
Google Inc.
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
David Pinero
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
From $0 to Enterprise
N/A
GPLv2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
From $0 to Enterprise
0
Free
Development status
Mature
N/A
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Hosting Features blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Storage Quota
does not apply
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
does not apply
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
does not apply
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
does not apply
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
PHP4, compatible with 5
Classic ASP
Operating System
Linux
N/A
Platform Independent
Windows
Webserver
Apache
N/A
Apache, works on IIS
IIS 4.0+
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
None
N/A
Datastorage blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
No
Other
None
N/A
MS Access
Anti-Spam blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Akismet Support
No
N/A
Plugin
Unknown
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
IP Ban List
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Antispam spirit
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
N/A
Unknown
Unknown
Other Authentication
DNA SSO
N/A
Support blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Issue Tracker
DNA/ys
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Books
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Categorization
Multiple
None
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
Blogger data API
WordPress (plugin)
Post Editing blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Undo
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Comment Features blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
No
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
No
No
Patch
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
Extended Features blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Unknown
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
No
Patch
Unknown
Workflow blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Content Approval
No
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Content Import
Movable Type, blogSpirit
none
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
blogSpirit
HTML via FTP/SFTP
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Administration blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting blogSpirit Blogger FlatPress Battle Blog
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
No
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