b2evolution vs. Wordpress vs. Serendipity vs. DotClear vs. Geeklog vs. FlatPress

General Features b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Version
2.4
2.0.7
1.1
2.1.3
1.8.2
0.1010
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
2009-01-23 (15 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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
WordPress Development Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Olivier Meunier
Geeklog Team
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
GNU version 2
GPLv2
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
0
0
none
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
System Requirements b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
php
PHP4, compatible with 5
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
any
Platform Independent
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighthttpd
any
Apache, works on IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
Anti-Spam b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
None
Extendable authentication API
Support b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Books
5+
None
1
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
Post Editing b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Undo
No
No
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Comment Features b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Open-ID Support
Client
None
Client + Server
Extended Features b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Workflow b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Content Approval
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear Geeklog FlatPress
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
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