General Features | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
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Version |
2.4
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1.0d
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N/A
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2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
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2.1.3
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0.1010
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1.12.0
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1.1
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1.1
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1.5.4
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Release Date |
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
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2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
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N/A
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2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
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2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
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2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
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2006-08-22 (18 years ago)
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2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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2006-06-29 (18 years ago)
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2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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Author |
Francois Planque / evoTeam
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David Pinero
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Google Inc.
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Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
|
Olivier Meunier
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NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
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The PSG Team
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Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
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Wheat, Josh, Pete
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Josh Schmidt
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URL | ||||||||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
GPL
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GPL
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N/A
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BSD License
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GPL v2
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GPLv2
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL
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GPL
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License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free
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0
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Free
|
0
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Free
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Free
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0
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$0.00
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0
|
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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Beta
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Mature
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Mature
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Beta
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Mature
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Interface Languages |
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
|
0
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Multi-User Support |
Yes
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Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
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Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Hosting Features | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
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None
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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None
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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None
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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System Requirements | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Programming Language |
PHP
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Classic ASP
|
N/A
|
asp.net 2.0
|
PHP 5
|
PHP4, compatible with 5
|
PHP
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PHP
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PHP, SQL
|
PHP
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Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other
|
Windows
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N/A
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Any Windows IIS platform
|
Unix/Linux, Windows
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Platform Independent
|
Any
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other
|
IIS 4.0+
|
N/A
|
IIS 4.0+
|
Apache, Lighthttpd
|
Apache, works on IIS
|
Any
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Apache
|
Apache, anything with PHP
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
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N/A
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No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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No
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No
|
No
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Other Requirements |
N/A
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IIS process account write access to web folder
|
None
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Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
MySQL or SQLite
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MySQL
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Datastorage | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Text Files |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
SQLite |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
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N/A
|
No
|
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class)
|
MS Access
|
N/A
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Structured XML data store
|
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
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Anti-Spam | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
IP Ban List |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins
|
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
|
Trackback validation
|
Moderation, link condom
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
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User Access Features | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Audit Log |
Yes
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No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
LDAP Authentication |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Unknown
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Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin
|
N/A
|
Vista CardSpace pending
|
Extendable authentication API
|
You can write your own auth plugin
|
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Support | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Commercial Support |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Online Help |
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
http://help.blogger.com/
|
http://dasblog.info/
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
|
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
|
||
Issue Tracker |
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
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http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
|
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Books |
None
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None
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1
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None
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None
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None
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None
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None
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Support Forum | ||||||||||
Mailing List | ||||||||||
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
|
#dotclear on freenode
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Blogging Features | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
|
Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
||
Pingback |
No
|
No
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Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
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Send+Receive
|
No
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Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Blog by Email |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
Blogger data API
|
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
|
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
WordPress (plugin)
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
||||
Post Editing | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Undo |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Comment Features | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Open-ID Support |
Client
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|||
Extended Features | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Workflow | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Content Approval |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Interoperability | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
none
|
BlogML pending
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
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Content Export |
HTML via FTP/SFTP
|
BlogML pending
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
|
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
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Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Administration | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | b2evolution | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | PSG | Serendipity | Wheatblog | WikyBlog |
Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Media Converter |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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