b2evolution vs. Blogger vs. LifeType vs. WikyBlog

General Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Version
2.4
N/A
1.2.6
1.5.4
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 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)
Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
The LifeType Project
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
No
Hosting Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
Apache, IIS
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
MySQL
Datastorage b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Text Files
No
N/A
No
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
Anti-Spam b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
N/A
No
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
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
Support b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
None
Single
Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Undo
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
Client
None
Extended Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Workflow b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Blogger LifeType WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
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