| General Features | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
|
N/A
|
4.0.7
|
N/A
|
3.3
|
5.0
|
| Release Date |
N/A
|
N/A
|
2008-11-29 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
|
3.3
|
2007
|
| Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
|
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
|
| Author |
Kirk Carter, Service First Webmasters, Inc.
|
Roy Kim
|
Team Textpattern
|
Google Inc.
|
eTouch Systems
|
blogSpirit
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| License |
N/A
|
N/A
|
GPL
|
N/A
|
Commercial
|
From $0 to Enterprise
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
Pls check www.etouch.net
|
From $0 to Enterprise
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Hosting Features | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Storage Quota |
none
|
NA
|
N/A
|
None
|
None
|
does not apply
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
none
|
NA
|
N/A
|
None
|
None
|
does not apply
|
| Other Limits |
none
|
NA
|
N/A
|
None
|
None
|
does not apply
|
| Corporate Branding |
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Topic Restrictions |
No spam, porn or hate speech
|
None
|
N/A
|
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
|
No pornography
|
does not apply
|
| System Requirements | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
N/A
|
PHP 4.3+
|
N/A
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
|
N/A
|
Windows/Linux/Solaris
|
Linux
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, lighttp
|
N/A
|
Bundled with Tomcat. Can be proxied via webserver of choice
|
Apache
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
N/A
|
MySQL 3.23+
|
N/A
|
Oracle 9i/10G, JSDK1.4
|
None
|
| Datastorage | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
||
| Anti-Spam | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Akismet Support |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Word Blacklist |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| IP Ban List |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
No trackbacks, no links in comments
|
Akismet
|
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
|
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
|
Moderated Comments
|
Antispam spirit
|
| User Access Features | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other Authentication |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Single-Sign On
|
DNA SSO
|
|
| Support | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Online Help |
Context sensitive, online help
|
Yes
|
http://textpattern.com/
|
http://help.blogger.com/
|
Available
|
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
|
| Issue Tracker |
Not yet
|
Yes
|
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
|
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
|
support.etouch.net
|
DNA/ys
|
| Books |
None
|
1
|
None
|
1
|
||
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| IRC-Channel |
#textpattern on freenode
|
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| Blogging Features | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Categorization |
None
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
None
|
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trackback |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
| Pingback |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
| Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Protected Posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blog by Email |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Blog API |
None
|
metaweblog api
|
MovableType, metaWeblog
|
Blogger data API
|
Can be provided on request
|
XML-RPC and Atom
|
| Post Editing | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Multi-paged posts |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Spell Checker |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Undo |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| File Upload |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comment Features | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
| Extended Features | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Search Engine |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Google Sitemap |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Workflow | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Content Approval |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
simple
|
scheduled
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interoperability | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Content Import |
Plain text, HTML, MSWord
|
None
|
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
|
none
|
Using custom import framework
|
Movable Type, blogSpirit
|
| Content Export |
None
|
RSS and HTML
|
Unlimited, template-based
|
HTML via FTP/SFTP
|
No
|
blogSpirit
|
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Administration | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | Cakewalk Blogs | Tabulas.com | Textpattern | Blogger | SamePage | blogSpirit |
| Podcast Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| YouTube Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| remove Cakewalk Blogs | remove Tabulas.com | remove Textpattern | remove Blogger | remove SamePage | remove blogSpirit |