Blogger vs. dasBlog vs. DotClear vs. WikyBlog

General Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Version
N/A
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
2.1.3
1.5.4
Release Date
N/A
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 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)
Author
Google Inc.
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
Olivier Meunier
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD License
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
Yes
No
Hosting Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Programming Language
N/A
asp.net 2.0
PHP 5
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Any Windows IIS platform
Unix/Linux, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
IIS process account write access to web folder
MySQL
Datastorage Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Trackback validation
User Access Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Unknown
Optional
No
Other Authentication
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Extendable authentication API
Support Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dasblog.info/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Categorization
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Undo
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comment Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Gravatars
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Workflow Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Content Import
none
BlogML pending
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
BlogML pending
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger dasBlog DotClear WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
No
YouTube Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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