WeblogMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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 FeaturesDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
Storage Quota does not applydoes not applydoes not apply None
Bandwidth Quota does not applydoes not applydoes not apply None
Other Limits does not applydoes not applydoes not apply None
Corporate Branding does not applydoes not applydoes not apply No
Own Domain does not applydoes not applydoes not apply No
Ads allowed does not applydoes not applydoes not apply Yes
Topic Restrictions does not applydoes not applydoes not applyNo Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
System RequirementsDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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
DatastorageDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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-SpamDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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 FeaturesDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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
SupportDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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 FeaturesDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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 EditingDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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 FeaturesDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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 FeaturesDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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
WorkflowDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
Content Approval Yes Optional No No
Versioning No Yes No No
Article Publishing scheduled scheduled simple simple
Comment Moderation Queue Yes Yes Yes Yes
InteroperabilityDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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
AdministrationDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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
SyndicationDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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/VideocastingDotClear DetailsSerendipity DetailsWordpress DetailsBlogger Details
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 updated2008-12-012007-01-182007-03-012006-12-07

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