b2evolution vs. Textpattern vs. DotClear vs. PSG vs. Wordpress

General Features b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Version
2.4
4.0.7
2.1.3
1.12.0
2.0.7
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-11-28 (15 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (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)
Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Team Textpattern
Olivier Meunier
The PSG Team
WordPress Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Programming Language
PHP
PHP 4.3+
PHP 5
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
Unix/Linux, Windows
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, IIS, lighttp
Apache, Lighthttpd
Any
Anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL 3.23+
None
Datastorage b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
Anti-Spam b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
Trackback validation
Moderation, link condom
various other plugins
User Access Features b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Extendable authentication API
You can write your own auth plugin
None
Support b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://textpattern.com/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Issue Tracker
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://trac.wordpress.org/
Books
1
1
None
5+
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#textpattern on freenode
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
None
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, metaWeblog
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
metaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
None
Extended Features b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Versioning
No
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
from 22 other blog systems
Content Export
Unlimited, template-based
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Textpattern DotClear PSG Wordpress
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
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