Wordpress vs. Serendipity vs. b2evolution vs. DotClear vs. Textpattern

General Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Version
2.0.7
1.1
2.4
2.1.3
4.0.7
Release Date
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
2008-11-28 (15 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
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Olivier Meunier
Team Textpattern
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0 - Free
0
0
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
PHP 4.3+
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows or other
Unix/Linux, Windows
Linux, Windows, SunOS, Unix
Webserver
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS or other
Apache, Lighthttpd
Apache, IIS, lighttp
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL 3.23+
Datastorage Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
No
Other
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
(must overload DB abstraction class)
Anti-Spam Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Akismet Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
several specialized antispam plugins
Trackback validation
Mandatory comment preview, spambot honeytraps
User Access Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Other Authentication
None
OpenID plugin
Extendable authentication API
Support Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://textpattern.com/
Issue Tracker
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://textpattern.googlecode.com/
Books
5+
None
1
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
#textpattern on freenode
Blogging Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
MovableType, metaWeblog
Post Editing Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Undo
No
Optional
No
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Comment Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Extended Features Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Content Approval
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Content Import
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, b2
Content Export
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unlimited, template-based
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Wordpress Serendipity b2evolution DotClear Textpattern
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
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