DotClear vs. FlatPress vs. NucleusCMS vs. WikyBlog

General Features DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Version
2.1.3
0.1010
3.24
1.5.4
Release Date
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2006-11-10 (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
Olivier Meunier
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Wouter Demuynck and others
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPLv2
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
free
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Programming Language
PHP 5
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Unix/Linux, Windows
Platform Independent
Linux, Windows, UNIX
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Webserver
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, works on IIS
Apache with PHP
Apache, anything with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL
Datastorage DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
Anti-Spam DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
IP Ban List
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Trackback validation
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Optional
Unknown
No
No
Other Authentication
Extendable authentication API
Support DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Commercial Support
No
No
No
No
Online Help
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Issue Tracker
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Books
1
None
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blog API
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Undo
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Open-ID Support
None
None
Extended Features DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Workflow DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
Yes
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interoperability DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Content Import
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
yes
Content Export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting DotClear FlatPress NucleusCMS WikyBlog
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
No
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