blogSpirit vs. Wordpress vs. Blogger vs. FlatPress

General Features blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Version
5.0
2.0.7
N/A
0.1010
Release Date
2007
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
N/A
2009-01-23 (15 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
WordPress Development Team
Google Inc.
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
From $0 to Enterprise
GPL
N/A
GPLv2
License Cost/ Fee
From $0 to Enterprise
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
No
No
Hosting Features blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Storage Quota
does not apply
N/A
None
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
does not apply
N/A
None
N/A
Other Limits
does not apply
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Topic Restrictions
does not apply
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
System Requirements blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
PHP4, compatible with 5
Operating System
Linux
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
N/A
Platform Independent
Webserver
Apache
Anything with PHP
N/A
Apache, works on IIS
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
None
N/A
Datastorage blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Text Files
No
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
No
Other
None
None
N/A
Anti-Spam blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Akismet Support
No
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Antispam spirit
various other plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
No
N/A
Unknown
Other Authentication
DNA SSO
None
N/A
Support blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Online Help
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Issue Tracker
DNA/ys
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Books
1
5+
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blog API
XML-RPC and Atom
metaWeblog, MovableType
Blogger data API
WordPress (plugin)
Post Editing blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Comment Features blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Open-ID Support
None
None
Extended Features blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Workflow blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Content Approval
No
No
No
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Content Import
Movable Type, blogSpirit
from 22 other blog systems
none
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
blogSpirit
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
HTML via FTP/SFTP
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting blogSpirit Wordpress Blogger FlatPress
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Unknown
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