ExpressionEngine vs. Wordpress vs. b2evolution vs. DotClear vs. NucleusCMS

General Features ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Version
1.6
2.0.7
2.4
2.1.3
3.24
Release Date
2004-04-22 (19 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
EllisLab, Inc.
WordPress Development Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Olivier Meunier
Wouter Demuynck and others
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Proprietary
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
From 0$ - 249.95$
0
0 - Free
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows or other
Unix/Linux, Windows
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Webserver
IIS, Apache
Anything with PHP
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP must have XML support
Datastorage ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
None
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Akismet Support
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
various other plugins
several specialized antispam plugins
Trackback validation
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Other Authentication
No
None
OpenID plugin
Extendable authentication API
Support ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
Issue Tracker
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
Books
None
5+
1
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Single
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blog API
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
metaWeblog, MovableType
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Comment Features ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Extended Features ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Content Approval
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Content Import
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
yes
Content Export
MySQL
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting ExpressionEngine Wordpress b2evolution DotClear NucleusCMS
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
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