| General Features | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
|
1.2.6
|
3.24
|
| Release Date |
2007-08-14 (18 years ago)
|
2008-02-01 (17 years ago)
|
2006-11-11 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
|
The LifeType Project
|
Wouter Demuynck and others
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD License
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Programming Language |
asp.net 2.0
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Any Windows IIS platform
|
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, UNIX
|
| Webserver |
IIS 4.0+
|
Apache, IIS
|
Apache with PHP
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
IIS process account write access to web folder
|
||
| Datastorage | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Structured XML data store
|
||
| Anti-Spam | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Akismet Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
|
SpamBayes, MBL
|
|
| User Access Features | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Log |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
Vista CardSpace pending
|
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
|
|
| Support | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Online Help |
http://dasblog.info/
|
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
|
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
|
| Books |
None
|
None
|
1
|
| Support Forum | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| IRC-Channel | |||
| Blogging Features | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
Single
|
Single
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
| Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
| Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Protected Posts |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blog by Email |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blog API |
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
|
| Post Editing | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Spell Checker |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Undo |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Comment Features | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Gravatars |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client
|
None
|
| Extended Features | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Workflow | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Content Approval |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Content Import |
BlogML pending
|
yes
|
|
| Content Export |
BlogML pending
|
backup to SQL
|
|
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML Output |
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | dasBlog | LifeType | NucleusCMS |
| Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
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