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General Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Version
2.4
N/A
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
2.1.3
0.1010
1.8.2
1.0.2
1.2.6
0.6
4.21
1.40.6
1.12.0
1.1
4.1.1
1.1
1.5.4
2.0.7
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-05-07 (16 years ago)
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2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
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Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Olivier Meunier
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Geeklog Team
Jeena Paradies / team
The LifeType Project
Gerrit van Aaken
Six Apart
Pivot Team
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Josh Schmidt
WordPress Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
BSD License
GPL v2
GPLv2
GNU version 2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
MIT
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
Free
0
Free
none
0
0
$0
Free
Free
0
0
$0.00
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Hosting Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
asp.net 2.0
PHP 5
PHP4, compatible with 5
php
PHP
PHP
PHP
Perl 5
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
PHP, SQL
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Any Windows IIS platform
Unix/Linux, Windows
Platform Independent
any
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
all
Platform Independant
Any
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
All
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, works on IIS
any
Apache, IIS
Apache, IIS
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Apache
Apache, anything with PHP
Anything with PHP
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
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
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Ruby
MySQL or SQLite
MySQL
Datastorage b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
Structured XML data store
no
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
XML-based flat file storage
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
None
Anti-Spam b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Akismet Support
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Trackback validation
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
Definable Questions
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
various other plugins
User Access Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Extendable authentication API
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
Pluggable
You can write your own auth plugin
None
Support b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dasblog.info/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
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.lifetype.net
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
Books
None
None
1
None
1
None
None
None
2-5
None
None
None
None
None
None
5+
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#movabletype @ freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Categorization
Multiple
None
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Receive
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
none
XML-RPC and Atom
MetaWeblog, Moblog
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
No
Optional
Undo
No
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Client + Server
None
Client
None
Client + Server
None
None
None
None
None
None
Extended Features b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Versioning
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
simple
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
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
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
BlogML pending
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
RSS
via RSS
Yes
Dump to RSS, Database export
RSS, Atom
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Blogger dasBlog DotClear FlatPress Geeklog Jlog LifeType Loudblog Movable Type Pivot PSG Serendipity typo Wheatblog WikyBlog Wordpress
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
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