Serendipity vs. LifeType vs. WikyBlog vs. Cakewalk Blogs

General Features Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Version
1.1
1.2.6
1.5.4
N/A
Release Date
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
N/A
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
The LifeType Project
Josh Schmidt
Kirk Carter, Service First Webmasters, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Hosting Features Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
none
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
none
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
none
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No spam, porn or hate speech
System Requirements Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
N/A
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Webserver
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, IIS
Apache, anything with PHP
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Other Requirements
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
MySQL
N/A
Datastorage Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Text Files
No
No
No
N/A
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
No
N/A
SQLite
Yes
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
N/A
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
N/A
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
N/A
Anti-Spam Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Akismet Support
Yes
Plugin
No
N/A
Word Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
No trackbacks, no links in comments
User Access Features Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
No
No
N/A
Other Authentication
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
N/A
Support Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.wikyblog.com/help
Context sensitive, online help
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikyblog/
Not yet
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Categorization
Multiple
Single
None
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
Plugin
No
No
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
None
Post Editing Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
No
Spell Checker
Plugin
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Undo
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comment Features Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Comment Layout
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
No
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
None
Extended Features Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Workflow Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Content Approval
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Versioning
Yes
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Plain text, HTML, MSWord
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
None
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Serendipity LifeType WikyBlog Cakewalk Blogs
Podcast Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Yes
No
No
No
YouTube Support
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Plugin
No
No
No
remove Serendipity remove LifeType remove WikyBlog remove Cakewalk Blogs