BlogBaker vs. Wordpress vs. Serendipity vs. DotClear

General Features BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Version
N/A
2.0.7
1.1
2.1.3
Release Date
N/A
2007-01-14 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2008-11-19 (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)
Author
Sparklit
WordPress Development Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Olivier Meunier
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
BSD
GPL v2
License Cost/ Fee
From $0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Storage Quota
1GB - Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
Upload Bandwidth
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
PHP 5
Operating System
N/A
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Webserver
N/A
Anything with PHP
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighthttpd
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Text Files
N/A
No
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
None
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Akismet Support
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Tubby Spam Filter
various other plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
User Access Features BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
No
Plugin
Optional
Other Authentication
N/A
None
Extendable authentication API
Support BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
Personalized Support
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
Issue Tracker
http://support.sparklit.com
http://trac.wordpress.org/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
Books
None
5+
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blog API
metaWeblog, MovableType
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Undo
Yes
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comment Features BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
Extended Features BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Content Approval
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Content Import
csv
from 22 other blog systems
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
csv
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting BlogBaker Wordpress Serendipity DotClear
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Converter
Optional
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
No
Plugin
No
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