home • get rewarded • recent posts • members benefits • help us out

Post: Blogging: Wordpress Vs B2evolution

When it comes to blogging software you are spoilt for choice, each piece of software has its pros and cons. Right here and right now, we are going to review the 2 most common blog software (b2evolution and wordpress) so that you dont have too!

Both b2evolution and wordpress are self-hosted blogs, which means that you download them onto your computer, upload it to your web host and install it onto your website, however wordpress can also be hosted for you at wordpress.com if you don’t currently have web hosting.

Its actually weird that i should be reviewing these 2 great pieces of software because b2evolution is actually the software that i started my blogging journey on and wordpress is the software that i am currently using. The other thing to point out is that both of these 2 came from the original b2 script. (more here at b2evo)

Blog Software Reviews

B2EVOLUTION

A multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available without charge.

  • Features
    • Multiple categories, sub-categories and blogs.
    • Comment, trackback and pinging support.
    • Integrated XHTML validator.
    • Clean permalinks.
    • Draft, private and protected status.
    • Statistics based on logging of Referers, User Agents, etc… on blog pages.
    • Comment and referrer spam prevention.
    • Loads of extras such as add-ons, skins, plugins etc readily available for use.
  • Full Feature List
  • Documentation
  • Online Demo
  • Homepage

WORDPRESS

WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg.

  • Features
    • What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor.
    • Full standards compliance (As per W3C rules).
    • Any changes made to posts or templates are updated immediately on your site.
    • Multiple categories and sub-categories.
    • Comment, trackback and pinging support.
    • Comment and referrer spam prevention.
    • Draft, private and protected status.
    • Clean permalinks.
    • Loads of extras, add-ons, plugins and themes easily available.
  • Full Feature List
  • Documentation
  • Online Demo (This site uses wordpress ;))
  • Homepage

Conclusion

Both have really good features, and to be completely honest with everyone, i would say that they are pretty equal in comparison, i only chose wordpress due to liking it more personally, i felt wordpress was more supported in the blogging community and was more talked about.

For e.g. if you search google for wordpress you get 178million results, if you search for b2evolution you only get 4.75million results. For me its easy to see what i would choose, especially when it has the bigger backing.

You just gotta love wordpress =)

  • If you like what you have read, why not Invite A Friend? &
  • or discuss it in the teen forums?
  • or subscribe and receive daily digest straight into your email inbox
  • Whatever you choose, just remember that at mycyc.com you can speak freely, ask whatever you want and most importantly, you can be yourself!

post info and author

Subscribe To My CYC

  •  

Related Posts

Other Stats

Vote! Share! Print!

  • How would you rate this post?
    (No Ratings Yet)
    Loading ... Loading ...

comments and trackbacks

Leave a Reply

navigation