| General Features | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.0
|
1.1
|
2.1.3
|
0.6
|
| Release Date |
2007
|
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
|
2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
|
2006-12-08 (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 |
blogSpirit
|
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
|
Olivier Meunier
|
Gerrit van Aaken
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
From $0 to Enterprise
|
BSD
|
GPL v2
|
GPL
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
From $0 to Enterprise
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Hosting Features | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
| Operating System |
Linux
|
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
|
Unix/Linux, Windows
|
all
|
| Webserver |
Apache
|
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
|
Apache, Lighthttpd
|
Apache, IIS
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
|
||
| Datastorage | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
None
|
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
|
||
| Anti-Spam | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Akismet Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| IP Ban List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
Antispam spirit
|
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
|
Trackback validation
|
Definable Questions
|
| User Access Features | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Log |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| LDAP Authentication |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Other Authentication |
DNA SSO
|
Extendable authentication API
|
||
| Support | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Commercial Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Online Help |
www.blogspirit.com/fr/kb/
|
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
|
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
|
http://loudblog.de/index.php?s=manual
|
| Issue Tracker |
DNA/ys
|
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
|
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
|
|
| Books |
1
|
None
|
1
|
None
|
| Support Forum | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| IRC-Channel |
#dotclear on freenode
|
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| Blogging Features | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
| Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
No
|
No
|
| Ping Service Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Protected Posts |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blog by Email |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blog by SMS/MMS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blog API |
XML-RPC and Atom
|
MovableType, Blogger
|
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
|
none
|
| Post Editing | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Spell Checker |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Undo |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Asset Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comment Features | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Feeds for Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Gravatars |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Open-ID Support |
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
| Extended Features | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Polls / Surveys |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Search Engine |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Google Sitemap |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Workflow | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Content Approval |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Versioning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
| Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interoperability | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Content Import |
Movable Type, blogSpirit
|
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
|
none
|
|
| Content Export |
blogSpirit
|
Dump to RSS, Database export
|
via RSS
|
|
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WebDAV Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
XHTML 1.1
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Administration | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syndication | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| RSS 0.9x |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| RSS 1.0 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Podcasting/Videocasting | blogSpirit | Serendipity | DotClear | Loudblog |
| Podcast Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ID3-Tag Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| YouTube Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Converter |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Phone2Podcast Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
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