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General Features dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Version
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
2.4
1.0d
2.5.1
Release Date
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
29/11/2010
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
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
David Pinero
Simon Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD License
GPL
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0 - Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
System Requirements dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Programming Language
asp.net 2.0
PHP
Classic ASP
Java
Operating System
Any Windows IIS platform
Linux, Windows or other
Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Apache, IIS or other
IIS 4.0+
Any Java Application Server
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
Structured XML data store
(must overload DB abstraction class)
MS Access
Anti-Spam dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
User Access Features dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
OpenID plugin
Support dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
Online Help
http://dasblog.info/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
Books
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Post Editing dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Undo
No
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Comment Features dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
Client
Extended Features dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Workflow dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Content Import
BlogML pending
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
atom/rss
Content Export
BlogML pending
atom/rss
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting dasBlog b2evolution Battle Blog Pebble
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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