b2evolution vs. Battle Blog vs. Blogger vs. dasBlog vs. FlatPress vs. Geeklog vs. Jlog vs. Loudblog vs. Movable Type

General Features b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Version
2.4
1.0d
N/A
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
0.1010
1.8.2
1.0.2
0.6
4.21
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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
Francois Planque / evoTeam
David Pinero
Google Inc.
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Geeklog Team
Jeena Paradies / team
Gerrit van Aaken
Six Apart
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
N/A
BSD License
GPLv2
GNU version 2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
Free
Free
none
0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Yes
Hosting Features b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Programming Language
PHP
Classic ASP
N/A
asp.net 2.0
PHP4, compatible with 5
php
PHP
PHP
Perl 5
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Windows
N/A
Any Windows IIS platform
Platform Independent
any
all
Platform Independant
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
IIS 4.0+
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Apache, works on IIS
any
Apache, IIS
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
IIS process account write access to web folder
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Text Files
No
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
MS Access
N/A
Structured XML data store
no
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
Anti-Spam b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Akismet Support
Plugin
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
Definable Questions
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
User Access Features b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Unknown
N/A
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Pluggable
Support b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dasblog.info/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
Books
None
None
None
1
None
None
2-5
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
WordPress (plugin)
none
XML-RPC and Atom
Post Editing b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Undo
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Comment Features b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Client + Server
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
BlogML pending
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
none
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
BlogML pending
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
RSS
via RSS
Yes
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Battle Blog Blogger dasBlog FlatPress Geeklog Jlog Loudblog Movable Type
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
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