General Features | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Version |
0.1010 |
2.0.7 |
does not apply | 1.0d |
Release Date |
January 24, 2009 |
2007-01-15 |
does not apply | 11/08/2006 |
Author |
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team |
WordPress Development Team |
Google Inc. |
David Pinero |
URL |
www.flatpress.org |
wordpress.org |
www.blogger.com |
www.battleblog.com |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
 Yes |
does not apply |  Yes |
License |
GPLv2 |
GPL |
does not apply | GPL |
License Cost/ Fee |
Free |
0 |
0 |
|
Development status |
Beta |
Mature |
does not apply | Mature |
Interface Languages |
English, Italian, Deutsch, many other available |
46 |
9 |
English |
Multi-User Support |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
 No |
 No |
 No |
|
Hosting Features | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply |  None |
does not apply |
Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply |  None |
does not apply |
Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply |  None |
does not apply |
Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply |  No |
does not apply |
Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply |  Yes |
does not apply |
Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography |
does not apply |
System Requirements | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Programming Language |
PHP4, compatible with 5 |
PHP |
does not apply | Classic ASP |
Operating System |
Platform Independent |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
does not apply | Windows |
Webserver |
Apache, works on IIS |
Anything with PHP |
does not apply | IIS 4.0+ |
Root Access |
 No |
 No |
does not apply | |
Other Requirements |
|
|
does not apply | |
Datastorage | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Text Files |
 Yes |
 No |
does not apply | |
MySQL |
 No |
 Yes |
does not apply | |
PostgreSQL |
 No |
 No |
does not apply | |
Oracle |
 No |
 No |
does not apply | |
SQLite |
 No |
 No |
does not apply | |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
 No |
does not apply | |
MS SQL Server |
 No |
 No |
does not apply | |
Other |
|
 None |
does not apply | MS Access |
Anti-Spam | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Akismet Support |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
does not apply | |
Word Blacklist |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
IP Ban List |
|
 Plugin |
 No |
|
CAPTCHA |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
|
various other plugins |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only |
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User Access Features | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
ACL |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
|
Audit Log |
 No |
 No |
 No |
|
LDAP Authentication |
|
 No |
does not apply | |
Other Authentication |
|
 None |
does not apply | |
Support | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Commercial Support |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Online Help |
www.flatpress.org |
codex.wordpress.org |
help.blogger.com |
|
Issue Tracker |
www.flatpress.org |
trac.wordpress.org |
knownissues.blogspot.com |
|
Books |
 None |
5+ |
 None |
|
Support Forum |
www.flatpress.org |
wordpress.org |
groups.google.com |
|
Mailing List |
sourceforge.net |
codex.wordpress.org |
groups.google.com |
|
IRC-Channel |
|
codex.wordpress.org |
 No |
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Blogging Features | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Categorization |
Multiple |
Multiple |
 None |
Multiple |
Tags |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Archiving |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Trackback |
|
Send+Receive |
 No |
 No |
Pingback |
|
Send+Receive |
 No |
 No |
Ping Service Support |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Link- / Blogroll |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Protected Posts |
|
 Yes |
 No |
|
Blog by Email |
|
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
|
|
 Yes |
|
Blog API |
WordPress (plugin) |
metaWeblog, MovableType |
Blogger data API |
|
Post Editing | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Multi-paged posts |
|
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Spell Checker |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
WYSIWYG Editor |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 No |
Undo |
|
 No |
|
|
Syntax Highlighting |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
File Upload |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Asset Management |
|
 Plugin |
 No |
|
Emoticon Images |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
|
Comment Features | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Comment Layout |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Flat |
Feeds for Comments |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
E-Mail on Followup |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
Gravatars |
 Patch |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Open-ID Support |
|
|
 None |
|
Extended Features | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Photo Gallery |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Polls / Surveys |
|
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
Search Engine |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Custom Pages |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
Google Sitemap |
 Patch |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
Workflow | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Content Approval |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
Versioning |
|
 No |
 No |
|
Article Publishing |
simple |
simple |
simple |
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Interoperability | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Content Import |
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress |
from 22 other blog systems |
 none |
|
Content Export |
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress |
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML |
HTML via FTP/SFTP |
|
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
WebDAV Support |
|
|
 No |
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
|
Friendly URLs |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Administration | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
E-Mail Notifications |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Themes / Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
Trash |
 No |
 No |
 No |
|
Web Statistics |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
|
Comment Administration |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Syndication | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
RSS 0.9x |
|
 Yes |
 No |
|
RSS 1.0 |
|
 Yes |
 No |
|
RSS 2.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM 0.3 |
|
 No |
 Yes |
|
ATOM 1.0 |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | FlatPress  | Wordpress  | Blogger  | Battle Blog  |
Podcast Feeds |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
ID3-Tag Editor |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
YouTube Support |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Media Converter |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
Phone2Podcast Support |
|
 No |
 No |
 No |
Last updated | 2011-01-31 | 2007-03-01 | 2006-12-07 | 2007-01-23 |
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