b2evolution vs. dasBlog vs. LifeType vs. WikyBlog

General Features b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Version
2.4
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
1.2.6
1.5.4
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
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
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
The LifeType Project
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD License
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
System Requirements b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP
asp.net 2.0
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Any Windows IIS platform
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
IIS 4.0+
Apache, IIS
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
IIS process account write access to web folder
MySQL
Datastorage b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Vista CardSpace pending
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 dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dasblog.info/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
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 dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
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
No
Plugin
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Undo
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
Client
None
Client
None
Extended Features b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Workflow b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
BlogML pending
Content Export
BlogML pending
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution dasBlog LifeType WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
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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