WikyBlog vs. Wheatblog vs. Wordpress vs. b2evolution vs. Loudblog vs. Jlog

General Features WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Version
1.5.4
1.1
2.0.7
2.4
0.6
1.0.2
Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-12-08 (17 years ago)
2007-01-08 (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
Wheat, Josh, Pete
WordPress Development Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Gerrit van Aaken
Jeena Paradies / team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0.00
0
0 - Free
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
System Requirements WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP, SQL
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows or other
all
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache
Anything with PHP
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, IIS
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL
MySQL or SQLite
Datastorage WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Akismet Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
IP Ban List
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
several specialized antispam plugins
Definable Questions
User Access Features WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Other Authentication
None
OpenID plugin
Support WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
Books
None
None
5+
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Archiving
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Protected Posts
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Blog by Email
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
none
Post Editing WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Multi-paged posts
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Undo
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Comment Features WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Gravatars
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client
None
None
Extended Features WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Workflow WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Content Approval
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Versioning
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
simple
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interoperability WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
via RSS
RSS
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Administration WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
E-Mail Notifications
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
RSS 0.9x
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Podcasting/Videocasting WikyBlog Wheatblog Wordpress b2evolution Loudblog Jlog
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
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