Geeklog vs. Battle Blog vs. Blogger vs. LifeType

General Features Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Version
1.8.2
1.0d
N/A
1.2.6
Release Date
30 Dez 2012
2006-11-08 (19 years ago)
N/A
2008-02-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Geeklog Team
David Pinero
Google Inc.
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GNU version 2
GPL
N/A
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Hosting Features Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
System Requirements Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Programming Language
php
Classic ASP
N/A
PHP
Operating System
any
Windows
N/A
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
any
IIS 4.0+
N/A
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
N/A
Datastorage Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Text Files
No
No
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
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
Yes
No
N/A
No
Other
no
MS Access
N/A
Anti-Spam Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Akismet Support
No
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Yes
Unknown
N/A
No
Other Authentication
N/A
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 Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Categorization
Single
Multiple
None
Single
Tags
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
No
Ping Service Support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blog by Email
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blog API
Blogger data API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Undo
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Comment Features Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
No
No
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
None
Client
Extended Features Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Workflow Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
No
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Content Import
none
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Administration Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Geeklog Battle Blog Blogger LifeType
Podcast Feeds
No
No
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
YouTube Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
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