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| General Features | DotClear  | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
2.1.3 |
1.1 |
2.0.7 |
does not apply |
| Release Date |
2008-11-20 |
2006-12-28 |
2007-01-15 |
does not apply |
| Author |
Olivier Meunier |
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al |
WordPress Development Team |
Google Inc. |
| URL |
dotclear.org |
www.s9y.org |
wordpress.org |
www.blogger.com |
| Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| License |
GPL v2 |
BSD |
GPL |
does not apply |
| License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
does not apply |
| Interface Languages |
6 |
English, German, Danish, French and many more |
46 |
9 |
| Multi-User Support |
Yes |
 Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes |
Yes |
 No |
No |
| Hosting Features | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | None |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | does not apply | No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography |
| System Requirements | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5 |
PHP |
PHP |
does not apply |
| Operating System |
Unix/Linux, Windows |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others |
does not apply |
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighthttpd |
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS) |
Anything with PHP |
does not apply |
| Root Access |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Other Requirements |
|
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite) |
|
does not apply |
| Datastorage | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| PostgreSQL |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| Oracle |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| SQLite |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
does not apply |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| MS SQL Server |
No |
No |
No |
does not apply |
| Other |
|
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL |
None |
does not apply |
| Anti-Spam | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Akismet Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
does not apply |
| Word Blacklist |
Yes |
Yes |
 Plugin |
No |
| IP Ban List |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Trackback validation |
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks, |
various other plugins |
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only |
| User Access Features | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| ACL |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Audit Log |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| LDAP Authentication |
 Optional |
Plugin |
No |
does not apply |
| Other Authentication |
Extendable authentication API |
|
None |
does not apply |
| Support | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Commercial Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Online Help |
dotclear.org |
www.s9y.org |
codex.wordpress.org |
help.blogger.com |
| Issue Tracker |
dev.dotclear.org |
sourceforge.net |
trac.wordpress.org |
knownissues.blogspot.com |
| Books |
1 |
None |
5+ |
None |
| Support Forum |
dotclear.net |
board.s9y.org |
wordpress.org |
groups.google.com |
| Mailing List |
|
lists.sourceforge.net |
codex.wordpress.org |
groups.google.com |
| IRC-Channel |
#dotclear on freenode |
www.s9y.org |
codex.wordpress.org |
No |
| Blogging Features | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Categorization |
Single |
Multiple |
Multiple |
None |
| Tags |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Archiving |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Trackback |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
No |
| Pingback |
No |
Send+Receive |
Send+Receive |
No |
| Ping Service Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Protected Posts |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Blog by Email |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
Plugin |
No |
|
Yes |
| Blog API |
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger |
MovableType, Blogger |
metaWeblog, MovableType |
Blogger data API |
| Post Editing | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Multi-paged posts |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Spell Checker |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes |
Optional |
Optional |
Yes |
| Undo |
No |
Optional |
No |
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| File Upload |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Asset Management |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Comment Features | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Comment Layout |
Flat |
Threaded |
Flat |
Flat |
| Feeds for Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| E-Mail on Followup |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Gravatars |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Open-ID Support |
|
None |
|
None |
| Extended Features | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Photo Gallery |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Polls / Surveys |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Search Engine |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Custom Pages |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Google Sitemap |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Workflow | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Content Approval |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
No |
| Versioning |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Article Publishing |
scheduled |
scheduled |
simple |
simple |
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Interoperability | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Content Import |
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ... |
from 22 other blog systems |
none |
| Content Export |
|
Dump to RSS, Database export |
Wordpress Extended2.jawwormikXML |
HTML via FTP/SFTP |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WebDAV Support |
No |
No |
|
No |
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
XHTML 1.1 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Strict |
| Friendly URLs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Administration | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Optional |
| Themes / Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Trash |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Web Statistics |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comment Administration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Syndication | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| RSS 0.9x |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| RSS 1.0 |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM 0.3 |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| ATOM 1.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Podcasting/Videocasting | DotClear | Serendipity | Wordpress | Blogger |
| Podcast Feeds |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| YouTube Support |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Media Converter |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Last updated | 2008-12-01 | 2007-01-18 | 2007-03-01 | 2006-12-07 |
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