Wordpress vs. DotClear vs. Textpattern vs. b2evolution vs. NucleusCMS

General Features Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Version
2.0.7
2.1.3
4.0.7
2.4
3.24
Release Date
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2008-11-28 (15 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 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
WordPress Development Team
Olivier Meunier
Team Textpattern
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Wouter Demuynck and others
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0 - Free
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Programming Language
PHP
PHP 5
PHP 4.3+
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
Linux, Windows or other
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Webserver
Anything with PHP
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, IIS, lighttp
Apache, IIS or other
Apache with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL 3.23+
Datastorage Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
Trackback validation
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
several specialized antispam plugins
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Other Authentication
None
Extendable authentication API
OpenID plugin
Support Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Online Help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://textpattern.com/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
Books
5+
1
1
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
#textpattern on freenode
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Categorization
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
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
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
MovableType, metaWeblog
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Undo
No
No
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Comment Features Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Extended Features Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Workflow Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
yes
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Unlimited, template-based
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
No
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Wordpress DotClear Textpattern b2evolution NucleusCMS
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
No
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
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