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General Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Version
2.4
1.0d
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
2.1.3
0.1010
1.0.2
1.40.6
1.12.0
1.1
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (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)
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
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Olivier Meunier
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Jeena Paradies / team
Pivot Team
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD License
GPL v2
GPLv2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
Free
0
Free
Free
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
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
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Programming Language
PHP
Classic ASP
asp.net 2.0
PHP 5
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Windows
Any Windows IIS platform
Unix/Linux, Windows
Platform Independent
Any
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
IIS 4.0+
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, works on IIS
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
MS Access
Structured XML data store
XML-based flat file storage
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Akismet Support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Trackback validation
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Vista CardSpace pending
Extendable authentication API
You can write your own auth plugin
Support b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dasblog.info/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
1
None
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
MetaWeblog, Moblog
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
None
None
None
Extended Features b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Versioning
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
BlogML pending
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
BlogML pending
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
RSS
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Battle Blog dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Jlog Pivot PSG Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Yes
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
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