Blogger vs. Geeklog vs. Serendipity vs. DotClear vs. PSG

General Features Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Version
N/A
1.8.2
1.1
2.1.3
1.12.0
Release Date
N/A
30 Dez 2012
2006-12-28 (19 years ago)
2008-11-20 (17 years ago)
2006-08-23 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
Geeklog Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Olivier Meunier
The PSG Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GNU version 2
BSD
GPL v2
GPL
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
0
0
Free
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Programming Language
N/A
php
PHP
PHP 5
PHP
Operating System
N/A
any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Unix/Linux, Windows
Any
Webserver
N/A
any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighthttpd
Any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
None
Datastorage Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Text Files
N/A
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
Yes
No
No
No
Other
N/A
no
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Akismet Support
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Word Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
IP Ban List
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
Trackback validation
Moderation, link condom
User Access Features Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Other Authentication
N/A
Extendable authentication API
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dotclear.org/documentation/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://dev.dotclear.org/2.0
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
Books
None
1
None
1
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
#dotclear on freenode
Blogging Features Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Categorization
None
Single
Multiple
Single
None
Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
Ping Service Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Protected Posts
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Blog API
Blogger data API
MovableType, Blogger
WordPress, MovableType, metaWeblog, Blogger
Post Editing Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Undo
Unknown
No
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
No
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comment Features Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Comment Layout
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Gravatars
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
Client + Server
None
None
Extended Features Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Google Sitemap
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Workflow Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Content Approval
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Content Import
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
HTML 4
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger Geeklog Serendipity DotClear PSG
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
YouTube Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
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