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General Features blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Version
5.0
2.4
N/A
1.0d
Release Date
2007
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
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
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
David Pinero
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
From $0 to Enterprise
GPL
N/A
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
From $0 to Enterprise
0 - Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Hosting Features blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
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 b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
Classic ASP
Operating System
Linux
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Windows
Webserver
Apache
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
None
N/A
Datastorage blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Text Files
No
No
N/A
No
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
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
MS Access
Anti-Spam blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Antispam spirit
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Other Authentication
DNA SSO
OpenID plugin
N/A
Support blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
Issue Tracker
DNA/ys
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
Books
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
No
No
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
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
Post Editing blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Undo
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Comment Features blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
No
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Extended Features blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
No
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Workflow blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Content Import
Movable Type, blogSpirit
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
Content Export
blogSpirit
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Administration blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Trash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
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
No
Podcasting/Videocasting blogSpirit b2evolution Blogger Battle Blog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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