Blogger vs. dasBlog vs. typo vs. WikyBlog

General Features Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Version
N/A
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
4.1.1
1.5.4
Release Date
N/A
2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
2007-05-07 (17 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
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD License
MIT
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
No
No
Hosting Features Blogger dasBlog typo 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 typo WikyBlog
Programming Language
N/A
asp.net 2.0
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Any Windows IIS platform
All
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
N/A
IIS 4.0+
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
N/A
No
Yes
No
Other Requirements
N/A
IIS process account write access to web folder
Ruby
MySQL
Datastorage Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Yes
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Unknown
No
No
Other Authentication
N/A
Vista CardSpace pending
Support Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://dasblog.info/
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Categorization
None
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
No
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
No
No
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
No
No
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Undo
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Features Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
No
No
Gravatars
No
Yes
Yes
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
No
No
Workflow Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Content Approval
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger dasBlog typo WikyBlog
Content Import
none
BlogML pending
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
BlogML pending
RSS, Atom
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 typo WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Yes
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger dasBlog typo 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 typo WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
No
YouTube Support
No
No
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
No
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