Blogger vs. FlatPress vs. PSG vs. Serendipity

General Features Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Version
N/A
0.1010
1.12.0
1.1
Release Date
N/A
2009-01-24 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2006-12-28 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
2020-02-05 (5 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPLv2
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Free
0
Development status
N/A
Beta
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
No
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Programming Language
N/A
PHP4, compatible with 5
PHP
PHP
Operating System
N/A
Platform Independent
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
N/A
Apache, works on IIS
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Akismet Support
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Yes
IP Ban List
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Other Authentication
N/A
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
No
No
Yes
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
Blogging Features Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Categorization
None
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
WordPress (plugin)
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
No
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Undo
Unknown
Unknown
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Open-ID Support
None
None
None
Extended Features Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Polls / Surveys
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Google Sitemap
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Workflow Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Content Approval
No
Yes
No
Optional
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
simple
simple
simple
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Content Import
none
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
No
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
No
No
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
No
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger FlatPress PSG Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Yes
YouTube Support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
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