LifeType vs. b2evolution vs. Blogger vs. Jlog

General Features LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Version
1.2.6
2.4
N/A
1.0.2
Release Date
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
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
The LifeType Project
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
Jeena Paradies / team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
N/A
GPL 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 - Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
No
Hosting Features LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
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 LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Datastorage LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Text Files
No
No
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
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
No
No
N/A
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
Anti-Spam LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Other Authentication
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
OpenID plugin
N/A
Support LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
Issue Tracker
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Protected Posts
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Blog by Email
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
Post Editing LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Undo
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Comment Features LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
Client
None
None
Extended Features LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Workflow LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Content Approval
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
No
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting LifeType b2evolution Blogger Jlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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