WikyBlog vs. b2evolution vs. Wordpress vs. Serendipity vs. DotClear vs. NucleusCMS

General Features WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Version
1.5.4
2.4
2.0.7
1.1
2.1.3
3.24
Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
Francois Planque / evoTeam
WordPress Development Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Olivier Meunier
Wouter Demuynck and others
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0 - Free
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
PHP
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
None
Extendable authentication API
Support WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
Books
None
5+
None
1
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comment Features WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
None
Extended Features WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Content Approval
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
yes
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
E-Mail Notifications
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting WikyBlog b2evolution Wordpress Serendipity DotClear NucleusCMS
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
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