Wheatblog vs. dasBlog vs. Loudblog

General Features Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Version
1.1
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
0.6
Release Date
2006-06-30 (20 years ago)
2007-08-14 (19 years ago)
2006-12-09 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Gerrit van Aaken
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD License
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
$0.00
Free
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Optional
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
No
System Requirements Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Programming Language
PHP, SQL
asp.net 2.0
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
Any Windows IIS platform
all
Webserver
Apache
IIS 4.0+
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL or SQLite
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Akismet Support
No
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Definable Questions
User Access Features Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
ACL
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Unknown
Unknown
Other Authentication
Vista CardSpace pending
Support Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Online Help
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://dasblog.info/
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
No
Archiving
No
No
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
No
Protected Posts
No
No
Unknown
Blog by Email
No
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
No
Blog API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
none
Post Editing Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
No
Undo
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Comment Features Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Yes
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
No
Search Engine
No
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
Patch
No
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
No
Workflow Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
No
Interoperability Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Content Import
BlogML pending
none
Content Export
BlogML pending
via RSS
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Yes
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
No
Administration Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Wheatblog dasBlog Loudblog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
No
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
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