Pivot vs. b2evolution vs. Serendipity vs. Geeklog

General Features Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Version
1.40.6
2.4
1.1
1.8.2
Release Date
2008-07-13 (15 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
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
Pivot Team
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0 - Free
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
System Requirements Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Programming Language
PHP 4.1.0, PHP 4.3 or above recommended
PHP
PHP
php
Operating System
Any
Linux, Windows or other
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
any
Webserver
Any, Apache 1.3.x or 2.x recommended
Apache, IIS or other
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
Other
XML-based flat file storage
(must overload DB abstraction class)
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
no
Anti-Spam Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
Support Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://www.pivotlog.net/docs/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://forum.pivotlog.net/
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blog API
MetaWeblog, Moblog
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Comment Features Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Client + Server
Extended Features Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Workflow Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Pivot b2evolution Serendipity Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
YouTube Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media Converter
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
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