Battle Blog vs. Wordpress vs. FlatPress

General Features Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Version
1.0d
2.0.7
0.1010
Release Date
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
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)
Author
David Pinero
WordPress Development Team
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Unknown
No
No
System Requirements Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Programming Language
Classic ASP
PHP
PHP4, compatible with 5
Operating System
Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Platform Independent
Webserver
IIS 4.0+
Anything with PHP
Apache, works on IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Datastorage Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Other
MS Access
None
Anti-Spam Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Akismet Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
User Access Features Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
ACL
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Unknown
No
Unknown
Other Authentication
None
Support Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Books
5+
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blog by Email
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress (plugin)
Post Editing Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Optional
Plugin
Undo
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comment Features Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Patch
Open-ID Support
Extended Features Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Workflow Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
No
Interoperability Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Administration Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Battle Blog Wordpress FlatPress
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Unknown
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