Wheatblog vs. Serendipity vs. FlatPress vs. NucleusCMS

General Features Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Version
1.1
1.1
0.1010
3.24
Release Date
2006-06-29 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
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
Wheat, Josh, Pete
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
Wouter Demuynck and others
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPLv2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
$0.00
0
Free
free
Development status
Beta
Mature
Beta
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Programming Language
PHP, SQL
PHP
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Unix, OS X, Windows
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Platform Independent
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Webserver
Apache
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, works on IIS
Apache with PHP
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
MySQL or SQLite
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
No
No
Other
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Akismet Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
SpamBayes, MBL
User Access Features Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other Authentication
Support Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Commercial Support
No
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
Issue Tracker
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=22229
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
Books
None
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
No
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by Email
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blog API
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress (plugin)
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
Post Editing Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
No
Yes
Spell Checker
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Undo
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comment Features Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Search Engine
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Workflow Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Content Approval
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interoperability Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
yes
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
backup to SQL
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Wheatblog Serendipity FlatPress NucleusCMS
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Yes
Unknown
No
YouTube Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
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