General Features | blogSpirit | Wordpress | Blogger | FlatPress |
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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
|
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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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