b2evolution vs. DotClear vs. FlatPress vs. LifeType

General Features b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Version
2.4
2.1.3
0.1010
1.2.6
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2008-01-31 (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
Olivier Meunier
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
The LifeType Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPLv2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Programming Language
PHP
PHP 5
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Unix/Linux, Windows
Platform Independent
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, works on IIS
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Datastorage b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Trackback validation
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
User Access Features b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
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
Support b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
Issue Tracker
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
Books
1
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Post Editing b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Undo
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Comment Features b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
Client
Extended Features b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution DotClear FlatPress LifeType
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
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