General Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
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Version |
5.0
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2.4
|
2.1.3
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1.6
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1.1
|
1.8.2
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Release Date |
2007
|
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
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2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
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2004-04-22 (20 years ago)
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2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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30 Dez 2012
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Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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Author |
blogSpirit
|
Francois Planque / evoTeam
|
Olivier Meunier
|
EllisLab, Inc.
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
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Geeklog Team
|
URL | ||||||
Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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License |
From $0 to Enterprise
|
GPL
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GPL v2
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Proprietary
|
BSD
|
GNU version 2
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License Cost/ Fee |
From $0 to Enterprise
|
0 - Free
|
0
|
From 0$ - 249.95$
|
0
|
none
|
Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Interface Languages |
0
|
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Hosting Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Storage Quota |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Other Limits |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Corporate Branding |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Topic Restrictions |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
System Requirements | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
php
|
Operating System |
Linux
|
Linux, Windows or other
|
Unix/Linux, Windows
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Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
any
|
Webserver |
Apache
|
Apache, IIS or other
|
Apache, Lighthttpd
|
IIS, Apache
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
any
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Other Requirements |
None
|
PHP must have XML support
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Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
|
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Datastorage | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Other |
None
|
(must overload DB abstraction class)
|
No
|
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
no
|
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Anti-Spam | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Akismet Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Antispam spirit
|
several specialized antispam plugins
|
Trackback validation
|
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
|
User Access Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Other Authentication |
DNA SSO
|
OpenID plugin
|
Extendable authentication API
|
No
|
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Support | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Online Help |
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
|
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
http://expressionengine.com/support/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
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http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
|
Issue Tracker |
DNA/ys
|
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
|
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
|
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Books |
1
|
1
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None
|
None
|
1
|
|
Support Forum | ||||||
Mailing List | ||||||
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
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#dotclear on freenode
|
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
|
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Blogging Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
|
Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Protected Posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Blog by Email |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Blog API |
XML-RPC and Atom
|
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
|
Post Editing | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Spell Checker |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client
|
None
|
None
|
Client + Server
|
|
Extended Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Custom Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Workflow | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Content Approval |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Interoperability | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Content Import |
Movable Type, blogSpirit
|
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
||
Content Export |
blogSpirit
|
MySQL
|
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
|||
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
HTML 4
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | blogSpirit | b2evolution | DotClear | ExpressionEngine | Serendipity | Geeklog |
Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Media Converter |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
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