General Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
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Version |
5.0
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2.4
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1.1
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4.0.7
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Release Date |
2007
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2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
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2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
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2008-11-28 (15 years ago)
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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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Author |
blogSpirit
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Francois Planque / evoTeam
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Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
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Team Textpattern
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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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License |
From $0 to Enterprise
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GPL
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BSD
|
GPL
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License Cost/ Fee |
From $0 to Enterprise
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0 - Free
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0
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0
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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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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Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Hosting Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Storage Quota |
does not apply
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Other Limits |
does not apply
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Corporate Branding |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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Ads allowed |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Topic Restrictions |
does not apply
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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System Requirements | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
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PHP 4.3+
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Operating System |
Linux
|
Linux, Windows or other
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
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Webserver |
Apache
|
Apache, IIS or other
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Apache, IIS, lighttp
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Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other Requirements |
None
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Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
MySQL 3.23+
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Datastorage | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
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No
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MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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Other |
None
|
(must overload DB abstraction class)
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New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
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Anti-Spam | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Akismet Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Antispam spirit
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several specialized antispam plugins
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URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
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Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
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User Access Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Audit Log |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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Other Authentication |
DNA SSO
|
OpenID plugin
|
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Support | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Commercial Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Online Help |
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
|
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
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http://www.s9y.org/33.html
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http://textpattern.com/
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Issue Tracker |
DNA/ys
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
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http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
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Books |
1
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None
|
1
|
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Support Forum | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
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#textpattern on freenode
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Blogging Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
|
Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Blog by Email |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Blog API |
XML-RPC and Atom
|
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
MovableType, metaWeblog
|
Post Editing | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Comment Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Open-ID Support |
None
|
Client
|
None
|
None
|
Extended Features | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Workflow | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Content Approval |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Versioning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Interoperability | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Content Import |
Movable Type, blogSpirit
|
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
|
Content Export |
blogSpirit
|
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
Unlimited, template-based
|
|
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Trash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Podcasting/Videocasting | blogSpirit | b2evolution | Serendipity | Textpattern |
Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Media Converter |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
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