Serendipity vs. FlatPress vs. DotClear vs. Forest Blog

General Features Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Version
1.1
0.1010
2.1.3
1.2.2
Release Date
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
13/02/2007
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
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Olivier Meunier
Patrick Robin
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
BSD
GPLv2
GPL v2
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Programming Language
PHP
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP 5
ASP 3.0
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Platform Independent
Unix/Linux, Windows
Windows
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, works on IIS
Apache, Lighthttpd
IIS 5+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
Yes
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Access
Anti-Spam Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
IP Ban List
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
posting timelimit, comment moderation queue, link analyser
User Access Features Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Other Authentication
Extendable authentication API
Support Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
http://www.hostforest.co.uk/Downloads/Blog/guide.pdf
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
Books
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blog by Email
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Undo
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Comment Features Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
Extended Features Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Workflow Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Content Approval
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Versioning
Yes
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
none
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Administration Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity FlatPress DotClear Forest Blog
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
Unknown
No
No
YouTube Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
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