Feature summary

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 highlights

  • Multiple blogs
    Install b2evolution once and use it for 2, 3, 10, 100 or even 1000 blogs at the same time. Each blog can live on a different page, in a different folder, or on a different domain... or you could also choose to display several blogs on the same page. Photoblogs, moblogs, linkblogs ,blogrolls can be added in a snap.
  • Multiple domains
    Install b2evolution once at the root of you web hosting plan, set up as many "alias domains" as your web host allows you to, and let b2evolution take care of running a different blog/site on every domain. Manual page »
  • Multiple users and authors
    Any user can be given permissions to read, write, moderate or fully customize any number of blogs. Complete and detailed permission management is included.
  • Integrated stats
    b2evo will show you activity graphs for each blog, including robots, RSS readers and browser hits broken down by referrers, searches, direct accesses, self-referred, etc. Also includes search keywords, user logins and more.
  • AntiSpam Deluxe
    Effective combination of active and passive antispam measures — including a community shared blacklist — to block comment and referer spam.
  • Blog skins
    Skins do not only determine how your blog looks but also how they behave: traditional blog, knowledge base, bug tracker... Additional skins can be easily downloaded and installed.
  • Plugin framework
    b2evo's advanced plugin framework allows you to extend the application with virtually any feature you may need... or simply install prebuilt plugins provided by the community.
  • Advanced categorization
    Each blog can be sub-divided into categories and sub-categories to organize your posts by subject or theme. Posts can be assigned multiple categories, but even more: if you wish posts can be cross-posted among multiple blogs at once.
  • Localized in several languages
    Many languages packs are available for download. If you can't find your language, use the localization toolkit to easily localize b2evo to your language.
  • Web standards compliance
    b2evo is so W3C standards compliant that it is used by the W3C itself! Additionally, b2evo has an integrated XHTML checker that lets you validate any new content before you post it.
  • True workflow
    For example: submitters can post drafts, then assign them to an editor who in turn may assign them to reviewers for final approval and publication on the site. Actual workflow, permissions and statuses are all up to you.
  • Easy install & upgrade
    b2evolution's installer will take care of almost everything. Basically, you only need to give it the name of a MySQL database and you're set. Upgrading is equally simple. Only heavy customizations may require special care when upgrading.

Blog features

Features 1.10 2.4 3.3 4.x
Multiple blogs [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Multiple & sub-categories [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Multiple domains [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Blog skins / themes [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Skin specific settings - - [Green] [Green]
Skin widgets - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Photoblogs with thumbnail index - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Featured posts - - [Green] [Green]
Intro posts - - [Green] [Green]
Attachments - - [Green] [Green]
Podcast support - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Pages (out-of-flow posts / general info pages) - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Posts can have custom fields - - [Green] [Green]
User comments [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Comment ratings - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Comment avatars with gravatar support - - - [Green]
Allowing/closing comments on a post by post basis [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Trackbacks [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Spam filtering [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Paged browsing [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Archives by Year, Month, Week or Day [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Archives by Category [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Weekly archives [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Category archives [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Tags and tag clouds - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Keyword search (and / or / phrase) [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Multipage posts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Extended "read more" posts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Clean / keyword rich permalinks (no ? in URL) [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Per post lang attribute [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Author contact forms [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Standalone admin contact form [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Custom 404 pages - - [Green] [Green]
W3C web standards compliance [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]

Note: version 4.x is not yet relased but can be accessed through CVS.

Admin / backoffice features

Features 1.10 2.4 3.3 4.x
Admin / backoffice including dashboard - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Cross-post among multiple categories [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Cross-post among multiple blogs [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Draft posts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Private posts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Protected posts (reserved to members) [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Simple post editor [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Expert post editor [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
WYSIWYG post editor (TinyMCE) - - [Green] [Green]
Mass post creation editor - - - [Green]
Twitter posting plugin - - [Green] [Green]
Advanced rendering plugins [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Texturize plugin [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Smiley plugin [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
XHTML input validator [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Drag & drop widget management - - [Green] [Green]
File Manager [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Automatic thumbnail generation - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Configurable thumbnail sizes - - [Green] [Green]
Create posts from one or more images - - [Green] [Green]
User / Group management [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
User avatars - - [Green] [Green]
Users can have custom fields - - [Green] [Green]
Simple permission management - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Advanced User / Group permissions [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Edit permissions can depend on user level - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Plugins can define their own permissions - - - [Green]
Messaging module- - - - [Green]
jQuery as default JS/AJAX library - - [Green] [Green]

Note: version 4.x is not yet relased but can be accessed through CVS.

Additional features

Features 1.10 2.4 3.3 4.x
EvoBar (toolbar) on all pages - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Easy installer [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Page level caching - - [Green] [Green]
Block level caching - - - [Green]
Object level caching [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Security aware framework [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Plugin framework [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Plugins can have blog specific settings - - [Green] [Green]
i18n/l10n toolkit [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Timezone difference handling [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
RSS for posts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
RSS for comments [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Atom for posts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Atom for comments [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
RSS/Atom feeds for comments on individual posts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
b2 API [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Blogger API [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
MetaWeblog API - [Green] [Green] [Green]
MovableType API - [Green] [Green] [Green]
WordPress API - - - [Green]
Pre-optimized for search engines & advanced SEO settings - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Canonical URLs and 301 redirects - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Explicit <title> and <meta> fields handling - - [Green] [Green]
Ping plugins [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Pinging of b2evolution.net [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Pinging of pingomatic [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
AdSense plugin - [Green] [Green] [Green]
Advanced plugin framework [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Integrated stats/analytics with Flash charts [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Goal tracking - - [Green] [Green]
Integrated antispam [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Centralized spam blacklist [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Task scheduler for automatic maintenance [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Google Sitemaps [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
User registration with email validation [Green] [Green] [Green] [Green]
Optimized for iPhone - - [Green] [Green]
Optimized for InnoDB data integrity - - [Green] [Green]
Optimized for PHP 5 (still compatible with PHP 4) - - - [Green]
Optimized for APC cache - - - [Green]

Note: version 4.x is not yet relased but can be accessed through CVS.

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