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