| General Features | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.4
|
4.0.7
|
2.5.1
|
1.0
|
2.0.7
|
| Release Date |
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
|
2008-11-28 (15 years ago)
|
29/11/2010
|
2013-09-16 (10 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
|
Simon Brown
|
Jacob Roeland
|
WordPress Development Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
GNU GPL v3
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| System Requirements | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP 4.3+
|
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other
|
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix
|
Tested in Windows and Linux
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other
|
Apache, IIS, lighttp
|
Any Java Application Server
|
Tested in Apache only; should work on others
|
Anything with PHP
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
MySQL 3.23+
|
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| Datastorage | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class)
|
None
|
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| Anti-Spam | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| IP Ban List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins
|
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
|
various other plugins
|
||
| User Access Features | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin
|
None
|
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| Support | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
http://textpattern.com/
|
http://pebble.sourceforge.net
|
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
|
| Issue Tracker |
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
|
http://open.jira.com/browse/PEBBLE
|
https://github.com/jacroe/ignition/issues
|
http://trac.wordpress.org/
|
|
| Books |
1
|
None
|
None
|
5+
|
|
| Support Forum | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
|
#textpattern on freenode
|
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| Blogging Features | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
| Pingback |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blog by Email |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
MovableType, metaWeblog
|
metaWeblog, MovableType
|
||
| Post Editing | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Undo |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Features | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
None
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Open-ID Support |
Client
|
None
|
Client
|
None
|
|
| Extended Features | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Google Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Workflow | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Content Approval |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
|
atom/rss
|
from 22 other blog systems
|
|
| Content Export |
Unlimited, template-based
|
atom/rss
|
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
|
HTML 4
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | b2evolution | Textpattern | Pebble | Ignition | 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 | Pebble | Ignition | Wordpress |
| Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Converter |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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