b2evolution vs. Battle Blog vs. dasBlog

General Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Version
2.4
1.0d
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
David Pinero
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD License
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Unknown
Optional
System Requirements b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Programming Language
PHP
Classic ASP
asp.net 2.0
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Windows
Any Windows IIS platform
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
IIS 4.0+
IIS 4.0+
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
MS Access
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
User Access Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Vista CardSpace pending
Support b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dasblog.info/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
Books
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Unknown
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Post Editing b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
No
Yes
Undo
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Yes
Open-ID Support
Client
None
Extended Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Google Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Workflow b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
BlogML pending
Content Export
BlogML pending
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Yes
Administration b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
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