b2evolution includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions...
| Features | 1.10 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 4.x |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple blogs | ||||
| Multiple & sub-categories | ||||
| Multiple domains | ||||
| Blog skins / themes | ||||
| Skin specific settings | - | - | ||
| Skin widgets | - | |||
| Photoblogs with thumbnail index | - | |||
| Featured posts | - | - | ||
| Intro posts | - | - | ||
| Attachments | - | - | ||
| Podcast support | - | |||
| Pages (out-of-flow posts / general info pages) | - | |||
| Posts can have custom fields | - | - | ||
| User comments | ||||
| Comment ratings | - | |||
| Comment avatars with gravatar support | - | - | - | |
| Allowing/closing comments on a post by post basis | ||||
| Trackbacks | ||||
| Spam filtering | ||||
| Paged browsing | ||||
| Archives by Year, Month, Week or Day | ||||
| Archives by Category | ||||
| Weekly archives | ||||
| Category archives | ||||
| Tags and tag clouds | - | |||
| Keyword search (and / or / phrase) | ||||
| Multipage posts | ||||
| Extended "read more" posts | ||||
| Clean / keyword rich permalinks (no ? in URL) | ||||
| Per post lang attribute | ||||
| Author contact forms | ||||
| Standalone admin contact form | ||||
| Custom 404 pages | - | - | ||
| W3C web standards compliance |
Note: version 4.x is not yet relased but can be accessed through CVS.
| Features | 1.10 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 4.x |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admin / backoffice including dashboard | - | |||
| Cross-post among multiple categories | ||||
| Cross-post among multiple blogs | ||||
| Draft posts | ||||
| Private posts | ||||
| Protected posts (reserved to members) | ||||
| Simple post editor | ||||
| Expert post editor | ||||
| WYSIWYG post editor (TinyMCE) | - | - | ||
| Mass post creation editor | - | - | - | |
| Twitter posting plugin | - | - | ||
| Advanced rendering plugins | ||||
| Texturize plugin | ||||
| Smiley plugin | ||||
| XHTML input validator | ||||
| Drag & drop widget management | - | - | ||
| File Manager | ||||
| Automatic thumbnail generation | - | |||
| Configurable thumbnail sizes | - | - | ||
| Create posts from one or more images | - | - | ||
| User / Group management | ||||
| User avatars | - | - | ||
| Users can have custom fields | - | - | ||
| Simple permission management | - | |||
| Advanced User / Group permissions | ||||
| Edit permissions can depend on user level | - | |||
| Plugins can define their own permissions | - | - | - | |
| Messaging module- | - | - | - | |
| jQuery as default JS/AJAX library | - | - |
Note: version 4.x is not yet relased but can be accessed through CVS.
| Features | 1.10 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 4.x |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EvoBar (toolbar) on all pages | - | |||
| Easy installer | ||||
| Page level caching | - | - | ||
| Block level caching | - | - | - | |
| Object level caching | ||||
| Security aware framework | ||||
| Plugin framework | ||||
| Plugins can have blog specific settings | - | - | ||
| i18n/l10n toolkit | ||||
| Timezone difference handling | ||||
| RSS for posts | ||||
| RSS for comments | ||||
| Atom for posts | ||||
| Atom for comments | ||||
| RSS/Atom feeds for comments on individual posts | ||||
| b2 API | ||||
| Blogger API | ||||
| MetaWeblog API | - | |||
| MovableType API | - | |||
| WordPress API | - | - | - | |
| Pre-optimized for search engines & advanced SEO settings | - | |||
| Canonical URLs and 301 redirects | - | |||
| Explicit <title> and <meta> fields handling | - | - | ||
| Ping plugins | ||||
| Pinging of b2evolution.net | ||||
| Pinging of pingomatic | ||||
| AdSense plugin | - | |||
| Advanced plugin framework | ||||
| Integrated stats/analytics with Flash charts | ||||
| Goal tracking | - | - | ||
| Integrated antispam | ||||
| Centralized spam blacklist | ||||
| Task scheduler for automatic maintenance | ||||
| Google Sitemaps | ||||
| User registration with email validation | ||||
| Optimized for iPhone | - | - | ||
| Optimized for InnoDB data integrity | - | - | ||
| Optimized for PHP 5 (still compatible with PHP 4) | - | - | - | |
| Optimized for APC cache | - | - | - |
Note: version 4.x is not yet relased but can be accessed through CVS.
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