| General Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0d
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N/A
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2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
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2.1.3
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0.1010
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1.8.2
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1.0.2
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1.2.6
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0.6
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4.21
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3.24
|
1.12.0
|
| Release Date |
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2007-08-13 (16 years ago)
|
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
|
2009-01-23 (14 years ago)
|
30 Dez 2012
|
2007-01-08 (16 years ago)
|
2008-01-31 (15 years ago)
|
2006-12-08 (16 years ago)
|
2008-08-20 (15 years ago)
|
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
|
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (3 years ago)
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| Author |
David Pinero
|
Google Inc.
|
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
|
Olivier Meunier
|
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
|
Geeklog Team
|
Jeena Paradies / team
|
The LifeType Project
|
Gerrit van Aaken
|
Six Apart
|
Wouter Demuynck and others
|
The PSG Team
|
| URL | ||||||||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
N/A
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BSD License
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GPL v2
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GPLv2
|
GNU version 2
|
GPL 2
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GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
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GPL
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GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Free
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0
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Free
|
none
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0
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0
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$0
|
free
|
Free
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||
| Development status |
Mature
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N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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Beta
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Hosting Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
| System Requirements | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Programming Language |
Classic ASP
|
N/A
|
asp.net 2.0
|
PHP 5
|
PHP4, compatible with 5
|
php
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl 5
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Windows
|
N/A
|
Any Windows IIS platform
|
Unix/Linux, Windows
|
Platform Independent
|
any
|
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
all
|
Platform Independant
|
Linux, Windows, UNIX
|
Any
|
|
| Webserver |
IIS 4.0+
|
N/A
|
IIS 4.0+
|
Apache, Lighthttpd
|
Apache, works on IIS
|
any
|
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, Microsoft IIS, and cgi friendly webserver
|
Apache with PHP
|
Any
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
IIS process account write access to web folder
|
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
|
None
|
||||||||
| Datastorage | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
MS Access
|
N/A
|
Structured XML data store
|
no
|
LDAP, Oracle and SQL Server available with Enterprise license
|
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| Anti-Spam | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Akismet Support |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Word Blacklist |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| IP Ban List |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
|
Trackback validation
|
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
|
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
|
Definable Questions
|
Numerous plugins provide complete solution
|
SpamBayes, MBL
|
Moderation, link condom
|
||||
| User Access Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other Authentication |
N/A
|
Vista CardSpace pending
|
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
|
Pluggable
|
You can write your own auth plugin
|
||||||
| Support | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Online Help |
http://help.blogger.com/
|
http://dasblog.info/
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
|
http://wiki.lifetype.net
|
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
|
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/support/
|
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
|
|||
| Issue Tracker |
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
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http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
|
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
|
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
|
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
|
http://bugs.lifetype.net
|
http://bugs.movabletype.org/
|
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
|
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
|
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| Books |
None
|
None
|
1
|
None
|
1
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
2-5
|
1
|
None
|
|
| Support Forum | ||||||||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||||||||
| IRC-Channel |
#dotclear on freenode
|
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
|
#movabletype @ freenode.net
|
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| Blogging Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
None
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
None
|
| Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
| Pingback |
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
Receive
|
No
|
No
|
|
| Ping Service Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Protected Posts |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blog by Email |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blog API |
Blogger data API
|
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
|
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
WordPress (plugin)
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
none
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
|
||||
| Post Editing | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Undo |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Comment Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
Client + Server
|
None
|
Client
|
None
|
Client + Server
|
None
|
None
|
|||
| Extended Features | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Google Sitemap |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Workflow | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Content Approval |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Content Import |
none
|
BlogML pending
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
|
none
|
Greymatter, NewsPro, Blogger.com, own format, WordPress WXR
|
yes
|
||||||
| Content Export |
HTML via FTP/SFTP
|
BlogML pending
|
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
|
RSS
|
via RSS
|
Yes
|
backup to SQL
|
|||||
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.1
|
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| Friendly URLs |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Administration | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Themes / Skins |
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Trash |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Web Statistics |
Unknown
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No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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| Web-based Style / Template Management |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Comment Administration |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Syndication | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| RSS 1.0 |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ATOM 0.3 |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| ATOM 1.0 |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Podcasting/Videocasting | Battle Blog | Blogger | dasBlog | DotClear | FlatPress | Geeklog | Jlog | LifeType | Loudblog | Movable Type | NucleusCMS | PSG |
| Podcast Feeds |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Yes
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| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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| YouTube Support |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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No
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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No
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No
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| Media Converter |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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| remove Battle Blog | remove Blogger | remove dasBlog | remove DotClear | remove FlatPress | remove Geeklog | remove Jlog | remove LifeType | remove Loudblog | remove Movable Type | remove NucleusCMS | remove PSG |